1. Mentoring for Transitions
Educator Rendezvous 2018
Supporting Successful Transitions: Principles for Students of All Ages
Miniworkshop

2. https://serc.carleton.edu/83824

3. https://serc.carleton.edu/83827

4. Literature Review- URM STEM transfer students’ retention and success
Environmental Factors
Vertical Transfer Pathways
Program Designs: Research & Mentoring
Demographic & Academic Factors
Gender, Race, Pre-college experience, & college experience
Cognitive Factors
Self-efficacy & Scientific Identity
Yue Zhang University of Minnesota

5. Significant factors impacting perceived success
Positive
Academic consequences of transfer
Finding paid positions on campus
Mutual respect and diversity of peers in campus community
Negative
Unexpected costs at transfer institution or residency requiements
Competing demands of family responsibility
Yue Zhang University of Minnesota

6. ‘Village’ of Mentors Academic advisors Peer mentors, role models
Mechanics of transfer and navigating requirements
Encouragement and confidence building
Peer mentors, role models
Examples of success
Sense of belonging following transition
Emotional support
Faculty advisors
Future plans
Goal setting
Navigating the major or the discipline

7. "Mentoring and advising are crucial
"Mentoring and advising are crucial. Robust models must be scalable and not dependent upon a single individual. They must allow us to capitalize more effectively on the relationships that individuals have developed and the cultural competence developed in different parts of our community. Success will also require development of more cultural competence on the part of advisers, mentors, and faculty."
Workshop Synthesis, Broadening Access to the Earth and Environmental Sciences, February 2014