The State of Transfer in California CCCCSSAA 2013 Spring Institute March 13 – 15, 2013 Jeff Spano, Chancellor’s Office, California Community Colleges Nathan Evans, Chancellor’s Office, California State University Shawn Brick, Office of the President, University of California

What We Plan to Cover Today The Transfer Pipeline Economic Challenges Affecting Transfer Current Transfer Initiatives and Emerging Issues The Role of the CSSO in Transfer

Transfers by Race/Ethnicity to CSU

Transfers by Race/Ethnicity to UC

Transfers by Race/Ethnicity to ISP (NP)

Transfers by Race/Ethnicity to ISP (FP)

Transfers by Race/Ethnicity to OOS

CSU Transfer Applicants Source: Analytic Studies, CSU Office of the Chancellor

New California Community College Transfer to CSU Source: Analytic Studies, CSU Office of the Chancellor

CCC Transfer Enrollment to UC NOTE: Fall only Source: UC Office of the President Corporate Student System.

CCC Transfer Application Trends to UC -7% over 2 yrs +56% over 5 years

Economic Challenges Affecting Transfer At the CCC Over $800 million in cuts since and 60,000 course section reductions these last 3 years; As a result, students who can’t get their classes can’t transfer on time, thus stay longer and take more units At the CSU State support for the CSU has been cut by almost $1 billion or 35% over the past 18 months The CSU will continue to focus on authentic access for students At the UC UC sustained $750M in cuts for As a result UC implemented cost reductions/efficiencies, tuition and fee increases, non- resident enrollment strategies

Current Transfer Initiatives and Emerging Issues At the Community Colleges… – Associate Degrees for Transfer (AA-S/AA-T) – Course Identification (C-ID) System – Transfer Counselor Website ( – Passage of SB 1456

Current Transfer Initiatives and Emerging Issues At the CSU… – CSU Mentor Improvements – Acceptance of AA-S/AA-T Degrees into Similar Majors – Facilitating Graduation Initiative

Current Transfer Initiatives and Emerging Issues At the UC… – Ensuring Transfer Success – Transfer Admission Guarantees – New UC Transfer Admissions Planning Tool – UC Transfer Preparation Paths

Current Transfer Initiatives and Emerging Issues With UC, CSU, and CCC… – ASSIST: Next Generation

The Role of the CSSO in Transfer Promote transfer as a primary college mission; Provide adequate space, staffing, and resources for transfer center responsibilities; Ensure transfer receives support throughout the institution, especially as it crosses other admin. areas; Establish and support a transfer advisory committee on campus; Support the development and adoption of a campus transfer center plan, which at minimum meets the requirements specified in regulation (sec 51027).

Questions / Comments Jeff Spano Nathan Evans Shawn Brick