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Your School NameYour Role/Office

Jane RexDirector, Office of Transfer Articulation

Susan DaviesAssociate Vice Chancellor, Enrollment Management

• Session Goals

Learn about Appalachian State University’s Jump Start program.

Understand how a transition program like Jump Start could enhance transfer student retention and completion through collaboration with key community college partners and targeted campus programming

• What is Jump Start?

A program designed to assist students from three partner community colleges with the transition to the Appalachian’s main campus in Boone with a goal of enhancing transfer student retention and completion.

• Why Jump Start? To understand student needs and risk factors To create a more seamless transition To improve retention and graduation

• Background Initial funds - $163,000 Pilot – February 2012 to June 2012 Official program started July 2012

• Programming features Full-time Coordinator Transfer student mentors Regular presence on campuses Faculty mentors

• Programming features Campus Visits to Appalachian

Opportunities to meet Appalachian students, faculty and staff

Jump Start Orientation Regular contact with admitted students via email and

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/110608955736300/ Support at Appalachian

MAP Works Retention Tool

Transfer Student Mentors:

The heart of the Jump Start program

• Initial Accomplishments Productive relationships with community colleges Collaboration across Appalachian’s campus Jump Start website: http://jumpstart.appstate.edu

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• Initial Accomplishments Transfer-specific Early Registration Advising:

http://era.appstate.edu/ Talking Transfers Newsletter:

http://jumpstart.appstate.edu/node/23 Asssessment and Results

• Initial results: Students not registered for Spring 2013:

All transfer students – 16.5% Jump Start students – 6.5%

Students not registered for Fall 2013: All transfer students – 10.9% Jump Start students – 5.4%

Continued…

• Initial results continued… Persistence to first spring of students from Jump

Start partner colleges:

2010 Cohort 92.8% 2011 Cohort 95.4% 2012 Cohort 97.7% - first year of Jump Start

• Transfer Pre-Orientation Program (T-POP) Expansion of Jump Start Orientation Incentives for participation 120 attendees, 2 one-day sessions in April

Content: Transfer of Credit, Advising and Degree Works, Campus involvement, a campus tour highlighting where services are (Peer Career, Counseling, Health, Advising, LAP, Writing Center, etc.)

Feedback

• Lessons learned: Establishing relationships takes time Getting the message out is very difficult “Transfer students don’t want…” Disappearing students Continuing outreach

• Future Directions: Gentle expansion

Other top partner community colleges in the region Online presence across NC

Road maps Transfer student club

• Questions?Jane Rex, rexjm@appstate.eduSusan Davies, daviess@appstate.edu

• For more information:

Phil LewisCoordinator, Jump Start Appalachianlewisp@appstate.edu828 262 7877

jumpstart.appstate.edu