1. Ensuring Transfer Success 2014
Stephen J. Handel Associate Vice President,
Undergraduate Admissions

2. Agenda UC Transfer Action Team Other Updates Ongoing Initiatives
Questions and Answers
Campus Updates
Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

3. UC Transfer Action Team
President Napolitano chose to focus on transfer in her first six months
UC Transfer Action Team: UC faculty, staff, and students
Goal: strengthen and streamline UC transfer
Consultation with leadership at CSU and CCC
Panel of former transfer students met with the President and the Transfer Action Team
Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

4. Team Charge: Three Questions
Demand: Why have applications from CCC students declined?
Diversity: What can be done to improve geographical and other types of diversity in UC’s transfer classes?
Transparency: What can be done to simplify transfer?
“Many California students begin their higher education journey at a community college, yet yearn for the opportunity to earn a four-year degree. We must continue to support the access and success of the diversity of the California community college population.” Janet Napolitano (2014)
Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

5. UC Applications from CA Resident CCC Transfers
Full year except and
Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

6. Transfer Diversity 25% of CCC transfers come from 7 CCCs
All 112 CCCs sent at least 1 student to UC
Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

7. 4-year/2-year graduation rate 6-year/4-year graduation rate
UC Transfer Success: Graduation Rates
Freshmen
Transfers
4-year/2-year graduation rate
61.9%
53.2%
6-year/4-year graduation rate
83.9%
85.7%
Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

8. Considerations Examined all aspects of transfer Outreach Messaging
Admissions
Articulation
Transition services
Enrollment planning
Student success
Report to be issued at May Regents’ meeting in Sacramento
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9. Findings and Recommendations
Transfer
Transfer Students
Transfer Student
Students
Statewide Transfer
Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

10. Other Recent Transfer Updates
Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools (BOARS) added completion of Associate Degrees for Transfer to the official list of Comprehensive Review factors
July 1 Transcript Deadline
August 1 Opening of Application
IGETC for STEM
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11. Ongoing Transfer Initiatives
ASSIST Next Generation
cccconfer.org
UC Transfer Admission Planner (UC TAP)
UC Transfer Admission Guarantees
CCC-UC Data Sharing Project
Affordability: UC Blue & Gold Opportunity Plan
Ensuring Transfer Success 2014

12. Questions Future questions about transfer: Shawn Brick
Associate Director of Admissions, UCOP