UNT Advising Conference 2012 May 16, 2012 Opening Keynote Presentation Karen Archambault, Ed.D. #UNTAdv12

1. Creating Campus Cultures that
Support Transfer Student Success:
The Advisor's Role on Campus
Karen L. Archambault, Ed. D.
karchambault@brookdalecc.edu @kl_archambault

2. Why me?
Current Chair NACADA's Advising Transfer Student
Commission
13 years working with transfer students, sending and
receiving
Research in and passion for the experience of transfer
students

3. Why are conversations about
transfer so hard to have?
Occidental College Failure???

4. How do institutions see
transfer students?

5. Do institutions HAVE to care?

6. Why should we care about
transfer?
Institutional Reputation
This year's college transfers =
next year's alumni donors

7. Changing landscape
National
Increasing
Pressure
costs
Reverse
Demographic
Transfer &
shifts
Swirling

8. Texas and the Nation

9. Balancing the scales
Career Development

10. What to do?
"Our Jobs"

11. Traditional ways of thinking about
advising & transfer
Articulation
Transfer shock

12. Preparing our students
The role of the faculty
Beyond credits to "fit“
Teaching our students to fish

13. Transfer as Transition

14. Welcoming New Students

15. Re-evaluating ourselves
Review policies:
Admissions, Financial Aid, Registratio
Reconsider our practices:
Housing, Orientation, Student Life

16. Institutional Integration

17. Shared responsibilities
Advocacy
Partnership