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Roughly one third of all students transfer at least once before earning a degree, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Many of these students are challenged to carry their academic credits with them and often lose time and money repeating courses to finish their education. Likewise institutions are challenged with how to best

Common Transfer Barriers

When thinking about a transfer student from a professional point-of-view, I sort of feel bad for them. Not only do they have to leave where they have been for a minimum of one semester (more than likely at least a year), but they have to re-evaluate tuition, room and board, financial aid, campus climate, and

Is the financial burden worth it? : YES

Is college worth the financial burden? Yes. Yes. Yes, a thousand times yes! (Imagine yourself responding enthusiastically to a marriage proposal, and you can picture how I am enthusiastically answering this question.) At a time when college is seen as a financial burden, the question we now get from students is “is it worth it?”

Post May 1 Activities

Now that May 1 has come and gone (hopefully successfully for everyone!), I have been able to get my professional life back on track. TAAC has still been up and running through this very busy time and we have gone through the evaluations from our conference. This information will be used to improve ourselves in

Conference Presenters: Janet Distel, Dan Gilbert, Madeleine DeBot, and Carly Salvadore

For those of you not keeping count (I’m not sure why you wouldn’t be; this event is sure to please!), we are just a mere 2 weeks away from the conference. We have already seen a few biographies of the powerful list of presenters for the conference; however, let’s take a look at the Temple crew, presenting on the pathway

Conference Presenter: Jared Brown

With 3 presenters down and 7 to go, let’s take a look at Mr. Jared Brown! Jared is a Pennsylvania native and has worked in higher education since he was fresh out of college. He earned both his BA and MA in Communications and has brought that education to life ever since. Jared started his

Conference Presenter: Colonel John C. Church JR.

This week we welcome Colonel John C. Church, JR. He is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Communication at Immaculata University, but also carries with him years of higher education experience as well as a vast and impressive military history. With his extensive background, his presentation on Veterans is highly anticipated. JOHN C. CHURCH,

Conference Presenter — Nora Manz

With our Inaugural Transfer Conference fast approaching (March 19, 2014—Mark your calendar!), I thought it would be good to take some time to get to know some of our presenters. Since we are finalizing our schedule and presenters, I want to start with one of our very own members. Not only is she an active

The History of TAAC

With the small lull in between the end of travel season and application reading season where transfer life isn’t exciting, I think it’s important to discuss where TAAC started and how we got to where we are. As I mentioned briefly in a previous post, transfer students are commonly referred to as “monsters.” If there

Best Transfer Recruitment Practices

As a transfer counselor, we have all been involved in a transfer day fair, a transfer open house, and an individual visit where we are inconspicuously put the stairwell and hope someone stops to ask a relevant question, but 9 times out of 10, it is something like “do you know where the bathrooms are?”