1. Welcome to the Building Pathways for Success: Supporting Student Transfer from Two-Year Colleges to Four-Year Colleges and Universities Workshop Please introduce yourself to others at your table.
Heather Macdonald, College of William & Mary
Norlene Emerson, University of Wisconsin - Richland
Jan Hodder, Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
John McDaris, SERC

2. Workshop Goals
Explore promising practices and share strategies for supporting transfer students in their pathways from their first geoscience course at a community college to graduation from a four-year college or university
Share and learn from others, increasing communication and collaboration of those interested in building pathways to success for transfer students
Develop individual or team action plans and get feedback from other participants

3. Workshop Overview Thursday Friday Tales of transfer
Special session: 7:45-8:15 am
Pathways into Geoscience (GEOPATHS)
Brandon Jones, NSF
Workshop Overview
Thursday
Friday
Tales of transfer
Road check report, daily overview
Transfer journeys: Supporting student transfer at critical points
Small group discussions on strategies to support transfer, topics tbd
Short report outs
Successful programs and assessment: Program-level efforts and 2YC-4YCU partnerships including examples from NSF-funded GeoPaths projects
Individual or team action planning
Feedback on your action plans
Reflections, road check
Reflections, closing remarks, and workshop evaluation

4. Tales of Transfer: Discussion of Scenarios
Read scenarios and identify the issues
Discuss at your table
Short report-outs

5. Transfer Journeys:
Supporting Student Transfer at Critical Points from Recruitment to Transfer and Beyond
2YCs
4YCUs
Graduate
Professional geoscientist
Workforce using geoscience
Geotechnician

6. Gallery Walk: Supporting Student Transfer at Critical Points
What are successful strategies that we can use to attract undergraduate students to the geosciences?
What skills are the most useful for 2YC transfer students to have by the time they transfer? 
What are strategies we can use to help students successfully navigate the transition from 2YC to 4YCU?
What are strategies to help transfer students be successful at, and connect with, their 4YCU community?
Count off 1-8 (assuming we have 24 participants or more).

7. Successful programs and assessment: Program-level efforts and 2YC-4YCU partnerships including examples from NSF-funded GeoPaths programs
Micro-presentations
Diane Doser, University of Texas at El Paso
Joel Moore, Towson University
Kusali Gamage, Austin Community College
Aisha Morris, UNAVCO
Deron Carter, Linn-Benton Community College
Kim Hannula, Fort Lewis College
Questions and discussion with each
presenter in sequence
7-8 minutes with each presenter , count off if part of team, prefer to have you be in different groups) 1 2 3 4 5 6

8. Reflection
What ideas from this session are potentially useful for you? What are ways you could use these ideas in your courses, department, program, and/or organization?

9. Possible topics for discussion groups for Friday
Provide supportive advising with a focus on students’ long- term goals
Building partnerships: connections and collaborations between 2YCs & 4YCUs to promote and support transfer
The role of undergraduate research in supporting transfer
Provide academic experiences that prepare students well for transfer
Strategies for recruiting students into the geosciences (and majors)
Supporting the transition: Strategies for addressing academic, social, and financial issues
Reducing transfer shock, helping transfer students be successful within the 4YC community
Other topics suggested by participants