TEXAS HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING BOARD
1200 E. Anderson Lane, Austin, Texas
Community College Transfer Student Report Survey 2015
I.
II.
Institutional Information
a.
Please enter the institution’s name.
b.
Please enter the contact information of the person responsible for
completing the responses required in this survey and include:
1.
Name, Title and Department
2.
Email address
3.
Telephone number(s)
c.
Please enter the contact information of an alternate contact person and
include: Name, Title and Department
1.
Name, Title and Department
2.
Email address
3.
Telephone number(s)
Service to Transfer Students
A. Advising
1. Does your institution require academic advising for new transfer students?
___yes ____no
2. Do your institution’s academic advisors receive training specific to transfer
students? ____yes ____no
B. Orientation
3. Does your institution have an orientation program specifically tailored for transfer
students?
____Offered, but not required
____Offered and required
____Not offered
(Skip question 4 if your institution does not offer a transfer orientation. Go to
question 5.)
4. Please check the activities included in the transfer orientation. Select all that
apply.
____Advising with professional advisors
____Advising with faculty advisors
____Registration
____Student organizations’ presentations
____Assignment of student mentors
____Assignment of faculty/staff mentors
____Financial aid advising
____Meetings specific to academic program majors
____Campus tour
____Meal
____Parent/family participation and sessions
____Other (Please briefly describe below.)
5. What percentage of your institution’s transfer students participated in an
orientation program for the 2014-2015 school year? ____%
C. Outreach and Success Programs
6. What outreach efforts, if any, did your institution conduct on the campuses of
your community college partners during the 2014-2015 school year? (Select all
that apply.)
____Recruitment
____Advising
____Other (Please briefly describe below.)
____No outreach effort conducted
7. List any new transfer student success programs initiated for the first time in
2014-2015.
8. How does your institution facilitate assimilation of transfer students during their
first semester of attendance?
9. How does your institution provide support to new transfer students to encourage
persistence during their first year of attendance?
D. Website
10. Does your institutional website have a section for information tailored to the
needs of transfer students? If yes, provide the URL.
(Skip question 11 if there is not a transfer-specific section on your institution’s
website. Go to question 12.)
11. Please indicate the items included on the institutional website for transfer
students. Select all that apply.
____Minimum grade point average (GPA) required for transfer
admissions.
____Minimum semester credit hours a student is required to have to be
considered for transfer admissions.
____Number of semester credit hours students are required to take in
residence at your institution for graduation.
____Degree program guides that include Texas Common Courses
Numbers (TCCNS).
____A listing of all common courses taught at the institution by both the
common and local course number. This may be a list or interactive
database.
____Scholarship and financial aid information specific to community
college transfer students.
____Other information. Please briefly describe below.
12. Please provide minimum GPA for transfer admissions. ____
13. Please provide minimum semester credit hours for transfer admissions. ____
14. Please provide academic residency semester credit hours required for
graduation. ____
E. Financial Aid
15. What percentage of total undergraduate financial aid went to transfer students
during the 2014-15 school year? ____%
16. What percentage of transfer students received financial aid? ____%
17. What was the average amount of financial aid awarded per transfer student?
$____________
18. Does your institution have institutional or departmental scholarships designated
specifically for community college transfer students?
_____yes _____no
(Go to question 20 if you answered no to question 18.)
19. What percentage of transfer students received an institutional or departmental
scholarship designated specifically for community college transfer students
during the 2014-2015 school year? ____%
III.
Transfer Pathways
A. Academic and Workforce Articulation Agreements
Articulation agreements should include course equivalencies and specific degree
program applicability of courses and are signed by institutional representatives.
Multiple transfer planning guides/degree guides attached to a general transfer
agreement do not count as separate agreements.
20. Were any articulation agreements with Texas community colleges executed for
the first time during the 2014-2015 school year? ___yes ____no
(Go to question 22 if you answered no to question 20.)
21. How many new articulation agreements were executed during the 2014-2015
school year? _____
22. Were any existing articulation agreements with Texas community colleges
updated during the 2014-2015 school year? ____yes ____no
23. What is the total number of articulation agreements currently in effect with
Texas community colleges? _____
24. How many academic (AA, AS, AAT) articulation agreements are currently in
effect? _____
25. How many workforce (AAS) articulation agreements are currently in effect?
_____
26. What is the number of Texas community colleges with which your institution has
at least one articulation agreement? ____
B. Dual Admission Agreements (DAA). DAAs are formal agreements between a twoyear and a four-year institution to jointly admit eligible students in order to ensure a
seamless transfer.
27. Were any new dual admission agreements with Texas community colleges
executed for the first time during the 2014-2015 school year? ____yes ____no
28. What is the number of Texas community colleges with which your institution has
at least one DAA? _____
C. Faculty Participation
29. How many of your faculty have ever received training specific to the following
statewide transfer initiatives? Give the number of faculty for all that apply.
____Texas Core Curriculum
____Field of Study Curriculum
____Texas Tuning Project
____Voluntary Transfer Compacts
____ACGM Learning Outcomes Project
____None of the above
30. How does your institution encourage faculty participation in statewide initiatives
that aim to improve transfer?
31. How many “vertical teaming” meetings did your institution’s faculty members
have with two-year college faculty to align program and course requirements
during the 2014-15 school year?______
32. How many degree programs had faculty who participated in “vertical teaming”
meetings with community college faculty to align program and course
requirements during the 2014-15 school year? ______
IV.
Barriers to Transfer
33. The following have been identified as barriers to transfer. Not all may apply to
your institution. Please select only those experienced at your institution and rank
the applicable items based on how problematic the issues are at your institution,
with “1” being most problematic, “2” being the next most problematic and so on.
If all issues are selected, “10” will represents least problematic.
___Lack of timely and/or accurate transcript evaluation
___Lack of financial support for transfer student
___Lack of resources at your institution to facilitate transfer of students from
community colleges
___Inaccurate and/or inadequate advising at the community college
___Lack of available academic programs to meet transfer students’ needs
___Inadequate course scheduling and/or course rotations to meet the needs of
new transfer students
___Program admission requirements that are different from your institution’s
admission requirements
___Lack of course and program alignment with community colleges
___Students transferring with excessive hours
___Programs at capacity at your institution
34. Please list and describe additional significant barriers not included in the above
list for ranking.
35. During the 2014-2015 school year, did your institution address and successfully
resolve any systemic barriers to transfer that occurred at your institution?
____yes ____no
(Go to question 37 if you answered no to question 35.)
36. Please describe the systemic barriers to transfer which were addressed during
the 2014-2015 school year and explain the resolution.
37. Are there any emerging issues at your institution that you see likely to cause
barriers to transfer in the future? Please describe in detail.