1. Retention Specialist Transfer Center
Soraya Sohrabi

2. Why Do We Need This Position?
2478 Students with Transfer Goal
16%
Undecided Majors
19%
Freshman with 0 unit
27%
Students with units
Fall 2018
38%
Continuing students

3. What Do We Need? To accurately identify transfer students
To support students at each step they need to take from the beginning to the time they reach their transfer goal
To identify their challenges for program and service development
To support, sustain, and improve current services
To be able to continue provide support to other programs such as Counseling, Promise, STEM, EOPS, ESO Adelante, CWA, etc.

4. The Impact of Having This Position
Reaching out to 68% of transfer students wo are not part of any programs
In addition to support the services provide at the Transfer Center, this position will help us to reach out and follow up with students to be aligned with the EMP objective of Completion and Success:
The STEP program, a case management
The impact of AB705
The emergence of Guided Pathway
The increase in ADTs
Close the gap between the application and the enrollment at a university
Increase the retention and transfer rate
Establish stronger connections with four-year universities and local/feeder high schools

5. Current Status
We will not able to sustain the level of support for all Transfer students, and not able to follow up with students status
In addition, within last two years, we lost support staff in the Transfer Center
OAII (10 hours a week)
Retention Specialist position that was funded by a grant
High turn over of student assistants – no consistency and many restrictions