Q&A
Additional recommendations for improving transfer student success at CUNY
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Eli Dvorkin discusses additional recommendations from his report to ensure the success of transfer students at CUNY. He emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach and increased resources.
- Highlights the success of existing infrastructure at colleges like Baruch College
- Recommends creating teams focused on transfer success at each college
- Suggests expanding the number of 'transfer champions' at each college through hands-on training and support
- Proposes a transfer academy to scale up these efforts across the CUNY system
- Emphasizes the need for more resources to implement these recommendations effectively
Eric Dinowitz
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Yeah.
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I mean, I think in this committee, we often speak about, there's, you know, the moral justification for saying we should be investing for students to succeed, and then recognizing what financial investments look like and what good financial investments look like.
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And again, this council for for this council, CUNY, is a huge priority, and that's why we are fighting very hard against so many of the cuts that this administration has proposed because we need the advisors.
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We need ASAP.
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We need Ace, and we need our colleges to run well.
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You mentioned, as one of the top priorities are top hurdles, faculty education and faculty support and under anyhow the transfer works.
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Is there another recommendation from your report that you'd you'd like to highlight as one of the things that the city or CUNY should should focus on to ensure the success of transfer students.
Eli Dvorkin
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Yeah.
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So I think I thank you, Chip, for the question.
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I mean, we mentioned a couple of things.
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I think just underscore them a little bit.
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You know, where there is a already some strong infrastructure in place like a Baru College, it's really working.
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You know, having a team in place that focuses on transfer success, and it addresses multiple parts of the challenge, including getting departmental buy in for those credits that are gonna transfer should transfer from a community college as well as advising and and and faculty knowledge and all those components.
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So what we're proposing there, a transfer success team at each I mean, that would really be replicating what's already working at a school like Baruque and bringing it everywhere.
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That would include the kind of transfer affinity group model that started in certain places that would expand it, that would include, you know, the peer mentorship program that that that Doctor.
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Alberto mentioned.
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So that's one.
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I think the second is to the transfer academy idea in a larger sense is about creating a infrastructure to train faculty and administrators to become knowledgeable advocates for better transfer pathways.
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So that's something that's I think very doable with only a modest kind of additional investment.
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Obviously, that has to be allocated specifically for that purpose.
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But to do that, I think CUNY already has the transfer experts in house.
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The problem is that there isn't a program in place that will say, we're gonna train department chairs from every single college to do this.
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We're gonna find a kind of a group of transfer champion at each college that are gonna receive hands on trading and guidance and support to become those advocates within their own department.
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So to do that at the scale of CUNY would require more than what CUNY's doing today.
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They're they're they've started that process, but it can't just be sort of a handful of fellows.
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Even as as impressive as that initiative is, it's gotta be something bigger.
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And and for that, we're proposing of a transfer academy.
