B'C' Transfer TIPS: Nurturing the Transplanted Student

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B.C. Transfer TIPS Nurturing the Transplanted
Student

• Presentation to
• NACADA Region 8/9 Conference
• April 30-May 2, 2003
• Vancouver, B.C.
• Jean Karlinski
• B.C. Council on Admissions Transfer

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Objectives

• Share the B.C. experience
• Is this a good idea for your jurisdiction? If
  so, what would be needed to make it happen?

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Outline

• The B.C. Experience
• Why Transfer TIPS?
• Lets have a look!
• The How the Who
• How was it funded?
• A How to for High Schools

• Your Jurisdiction
• Good idea? How would it work?
• Who would spearhead it?
• Who would advise the project?
• How would it be funded?
• What info is key?

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Who is BCCAT?

• BCCAT Mandate
• To provide leadership in facilitating transfer,
  articulation and admissions
• How we do it?
• Establish values supporting student mobility
• Establish, coordinate maintain effective
  transfer mechanisms
• Evaluate policy and practice through research
• See BCCAT publications at
• http//www.bccat.bc.ca/publications/index.html

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Why Transfer TIPS?

• 1997 Advisors Admissions Survey seeking info on
  student knowledge of transfer
• Investigating Transfer Project
• In depth college student interviews before and
  after transfer to university (Late 1997)
• Both recommended
• A user friendly Transfer Handbook for Students

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Lets have a look!

• BC Transfer TIPS
• (Transfer Information for Post-Secondary
  Success) at
• http//www.bccat.bc.ca/
• publications/tips.html
• 3 Web formats PDF, HTML Text
• Also 35,000 hard copies printed each year

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The How and the Who

• Initiated by BCCAT in January 1998
• An Advisory Committee including advisors,
  admissions personnel, a researcher and BCCAT
  staff/secretariat
• 1 ½ yrs. in the making employed a writer,
  designer staff editors
• Pilot tested with advisors and students
• Edited, printed and distributed in Summer 1999
• Complementary poster produced

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The How and the Who (contd)

• Formal review 2 years later student and advisor
  survey plus focus groups at institutions. Also
  limited survey of high school students and
  counsellors.
• 2nd Edition published in-house in 2002
• Complementary bookmark created
• 35,000 copies distributed free of charge to
  formal transfer institutions

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The TIPS Timeline
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How was it funded?

• Start-up funded by BCCAT
• 3 yrs. of targeted funding from advanced
  education Ministry
• Base funding beginning in 4th year

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A How to for High Schools

• Transfer TIPS Facilitation Guide
• Go to
• http//www.bccat.bc.ca/pubs/tipsfg.pdf

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TIPS Facilitation Guide

• Written by Career Education Society
• Targeted at high school CAPP teachers,
  counsellors and senior secondary students
• A resource on how to use TIPS in the classroom
  or self-directed
• Being considered as curriculum resource in high
  schools

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Your Jurisdiction

• Anything similar in your jurisdiction?

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Your Jurisdiction

• Would this be a useful resource in a modified
  form?

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Your Jurisdiction

• What body, agency, or group could spearhead
  this?

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Your Jurisdiction

• Who would advise the project?

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Your Jurisdiction

• How would it be funded?

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Your Jurisdiction

• What info is key to include?

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Your Jurisdiction

• Other discussion?

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Recap of Questions

• Anything similar in your jurisdiction?
• Would this be a useful resource in a modified
  form?
• What body, agency, or group could spearhead this?
• Who would advise the project?
• How would it be funded?
• What info is key to include?
• Other discussion?

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More information

• Jean Karlinski
• Administrative Assistant
• B.C. Council on Admissions Transfer
• 709 555 Seymour Street
• Vancouver, B.C. V6B 3H6
• Ph [phone]
• E-mail jkarlins_at_bccat.bc.ca
• Web site www.bccat.bc.ca