1. Valerie Como, Sarah Green, Daymyen Layne & Gregory Whitmore
Student Populations & Issues Group Project
Transfer Students
EDU773 Theories of College Student Development
Valerie Como, Sarah Green, Daymyen Layne & Gregory Whitmore

2. Transfer Student Troubles

3. Transfer Students - By the Numbers
⅓ of students will change institutions before graduating
25% of students transfer more than once
37% of students transfer during their sophomore year

4. Transfer Students - Reasons
Refined academic and/or career goals
Dissatisfaction with current institution
Second chance to attend their first choice college
Next step after attending a community college

5. Transfer Students - Challenges
Prior college experience, yet everything is new again
Overconfident
May not identify themselves as a transfer student
“Transfer Shock”

6. Self-Authorship Theory - Baxter Magolda
Intellectual
How do I learn?
Intrapersonal
Who am I?
Interpersonal
How do I construct relationships?

7. Self-Authorship Theory - Baxter Magolda
Trusting the Internal Voice
Building an Internal Foundation
Securing Internal Commitments
Longitudinal
elements of
self authorship
Original participants

8. Self-Authorship Theory - Baxter Magolda
Phase I
Follow Formulas
External sources of influence
Phase II
Crossroads
Sense of self

9. Self-Authorship Theory - Baxter Magolda
Phase III
Become the Author of One’s Life
Belief systems
Phase IV
Internal Foundation
Self trust and inner core

10. Transition Theory - Goodman et. al
“Any event, or non-event, that results in changed relationships, routines, assumptions, and roles”
Transition Type
Context
Impact

11. Transition Theory - Goodman et. al
situation
self
support
S’s
strategies

12. Identity Theory - Chickering
Non-linear
Unique to student
Can go through more than one vector at a time

13. Identity Theory - Chickering
Interpersonal
Intellectual
Physical & Manual Skills
Developing Competence

14. Identity Theory - Chickering
making sense of new college & environment
examining goals & aspirations
relevant to students before they actually transfer
Developing Purpose

15. Identity Theory - Chickering
“Little fish in a big pond”
Adjusting to new culture and environment
Lack of social support
Establishing Identity

16. Developmental Ecology Theory - Bronfenbrenner
Process
Time
Person
Context

17. Developmental Ecology Theory - Bronfenbrenner
macrosystem
exosystem
mesosystem
microsystem

18. Transfer Students - Recommendations
Data Mining
Strategic Planning
Program Development
Support Services Delivery

19. Transfer Students - Recommendations
campus lingo
transfer credits
academic requirements
technology

20. Transfer Students - Recommendations
Transfer office
Transfer agents
Mentoring program
Housing assignments
DAYMYEN

21. Transfer Students - Recommendations
Transfer student focused programming
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