REMARKS
Recommendations to improve CUNY transfer student success
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Council Member Dinowitz presents seven recommendations from the Center for Urban Future report aimed at addressing the transfer problem at CUNY. These recommendations are directed at New York City and State leaders, as well as CUNY itself.
- Recommendations include launching a CUNY Transfer Accelerator, creating a CUNY Flex program, scaling up existing successful programs, and revising the CUNY funding formula
- CUNY-specific recommendations focus on creating transfer success teams, setting transfer goals, and establishing a transfer academy for faculty and administrators
- The recommendations aim to provide better support for transfer students and create incentives for improving transfer outcomes
Eric Dinowitz
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Center for urban future provides these 7 recommendations to do just that.
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4 recommendations for New York City, a New York state leaders, followed by 3 for CUNY itself.
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You're there.
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1, launching a CUNY Transfer Accelerator.
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Initiative with an investment of up to $5,000,000 to implement and scale up already proven effective tools and programs.
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Such as transfer explorer tool.
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2, creating a CUNY Flex program to provide wraparound supports to the many transfer students, part time students, and all and adult learners who are unable to access existing support programs that require full time enrollment.
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3, scaling up CUNY programs such as accelerate, complete, engage, or ace, college transfer into senior colleges and ensuring that such programs reach the same number of students in CUNY, senior colleges as the accelerated study in associate programs or ASAP reaches in CUNY Community Colleges.
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4, revising the CUNY funding formula to make a portion of the funds provided contingent unsuccessful student transfers thus creating and incentive for Quni to strive for better transfer outcomes.
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5, launching a transfer success team at each college composed of researchers, faculty administrators, and peer mentors from the campus in order to implement transfer policies and practices that have proven successful on a smaller scale on various CUNY campuses.
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6, setting system wide and individual campus transfer goals, and publishing reports on their achievements.
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Based on more accurate and consistent data across the campuses that are now available, and establishing a way to track and analyze the data.
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7, creating a transfer academy to train faculty and administrators to be come more knowledgeable about transfer policies and practices so that they can better serve CUNY students.