With the wide variety of pathways through higher education, it is no surprise that the amount of students looking to transfer between two and four- year institutions has steadily increased. With those transfers comes unique challenges for advisors and institutions that can become unnecessary hurdles for all involved if not properly addressed. The following resources provide a wide basis for improving knowledge on the transfer process, rationale, impacts, and challenges.  

NACADA resources:

• The Winding Road: How Today's College Students Consume Higher Education, by Sandra Avalos, Kelly Briggs, and Mechelle Martinez via Academic Advising Today, 2017
• It Takes a Village: An Advisory Group for Transfer Students, via Academic Advising Today, 2015
• Vocational Degrees to Bachelors: A Program to Improve Access to 4-Year Degrees for All Community College Students, by Terese Pratt and Natalie Brown, 2012
• Creating bridges between institutions: A brief look at advisors’ roles in transfer student transition, by Amanda Hatton, Sarah Homer, and Leslie Park, 2009
• Transfer shock: Why is a term forty years old still relevant? by Karen Thurmond, 2007
• Advising transfer students, via Academic Advising Today, 2004

Other resources: 

• What the latest research tells us about serving college transfer students, via Noel-Levitz, 2014 
• Facilitating community college transfer via The Chronicle, 2011
• How to build a transfer-receptive culture, via The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2010
• On transfer students and transfer-friendliness, via The Chronicle Higher Education, 2010
• Transfer students are less likely to take part in 'high impact' activities, via The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
• Transfer students: Postsecondary could promote more consistent consideration of coursework by not basing determinations on accreditation, via General Accounting Office, 2005
• Community college students: goals, preparation, outcomes, via National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), 2003

• Alberta Council on Admissions and Transfer 
• Finger Lakes Community College 5 steps to successful transfer
• Iowa State University
• Kansas State University Jump Start Program
• Michigan Transfer Network
• Oklahoma City Community College 
• Pima Community College Transfer course syllabi University Transfer Preparation, Transfer Strategies 210
• St. Louis Community College - Transfer Planning Workbook and Transfer Planning Brochure
• St. Charles Community College 
• University of Central Florida  
• University of Wisconsin

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