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Jane Rex Director, Office of Transfer Articulation Susan Davies Associate 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 and Facebook  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:

Initial Accomplishments  Transfer-specific Early Registration Advising:  Talking Transfers Newsletter:  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 Cohort92.8%  2011 Cohort95.4%  2012 Cohort97.7% - 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, Susan Davies,

For more information: Phil Lewis Coordinator, Jump Start Appalachian jumpstart.appstate.edu