Transferring Just Became Easier
Presented by:
Marilyn Marshall,
u.select Illinois Project Director
Agenda
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Statewide Transfer Tools
What is u.select
Live Demonstration
u.select Illinois Project
Join u.select
Prevalence of Transfer
• 60% of graduates earn transfer
credit
• 50,000 students transfer among
Illinois institutions each fall
• More minority students attend
Illinois community colleges
Transfer in Illinois
Summary Fall 2007 Transfers in Illinois
To Illinois Institutions
Public Community
From Universities
Colleges
Indpt NFP
Out-ofIndpt FP State in IL
Total
Public Universities
1,128
3,331
1,047
224
74
5,804
Community Colleges
10,603
4,663
6,697
1,206
614
23,783
Independent Not-ForProfit Insts
935
1,971
999
230
71
4,206
Independent For-Profit
Insts
48
176
219
197
29
669
Other Insts, incl out of
state
3,053
6,685
4,876
3,290
961
18,865
Total
15,767
16,826
13,838
5,147
1,749
53,327
Complexity of Transfer
Number of Students
Number of Transcripts
Transcripts from
Illinois only
71
110
Transcripts from
Illinois and another
state or military
10
23
Transcripts from
outside Illinois only
19
22
100
155
Total
Statewide Transfer Tools
• Launched in 1998
• Launched in 2002
• Home of Illinois
• u.select is a tool to show
Articulation Initiative
individual students how
IAI and other articulation
• IAI is a statewide
agreements effect them.
articulation agreement
• www.iTransfer.org/uselect
• www.iTransfer.org
What is u.select?
• Online transfer advising tool
• Allows students and advisors to:
– Explore colleges and universities
– Obtain degree requirements
– View course-by-course equivalencies
– Monitor progress towards a degree
• It is a free service funded by the Illinois Board of
Higher Education and supported by the
participating institutions.
Who can use u.select?
• Students
– Community College, University and High School
• Advisors
– Academic, Transfer, Admissions and Faculty
• School Administrators
• Parents
Let’s see how it works…
www.iTransfer.org/uselect
www.transfer.org
u.select Tools
Schools
Programs
Access links to different student
services such as Admissions,
Registrations and Financial Aid.
View degree requirements by
major at participating colleges
and universities.
Course Equivalencies
Transfer Plans
Demonstrates how courses
transfer from one institution to
another.
Run a personalized degree
report to see how courses will
transfer and apply to a specific
institution.
U Select an Approach:
Advising with u.select
How to utilize u.select during an advising
session
• As a Guest
– Access to basic u.select tools: Schools,
Programs and Course Equivalency
• As a User – it’s free!
– Access to all u.select tools
– Save your profile, courses, plans
U Select Your Approach
Introduce
• Guest
• CEGs
• Bookmark
Illustrate
• Prepared
History
• Selected
Planning
Guides
• Bookmark
Individualize
• Create
History
• Run Planning
Guide
• Half card
step-by-step
U Select Your Approach: Introduce
• Amount of advising time with students
– 15-30 minutes
• Approach
– Use Guest Login
– Show Course Equivalency Guides
– Look at Programs
o Focus on specific major courses
o Print Planning Guide if requested
o Distribute bookmark for student to create account
U Select Your Approach: Illustrate
• Amount of advising time with students
- 30 minutes
• Approach
- Login to personal account or general advisor
account
- Explain Planning Guides
o My Courses contains courses most commonly taken by
students
o Planning Guides are completed for most popular programs
and institutions
- Print or email Planning Guides
U Select Your Approach: Individualize
• Amount of advising time with students
- 30 minutes
• Approach
- Login to general advisor account or create
student’s account
- Load My Courses
- Walk students through Add a Course
- Utilize Request Import
- Create a Planning Guide with student
- Print or email Planning Guides
u.select Illinois Project
Statewide Project
u.select nationwide
u.select is a statewide system in:
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Oregon and Ohio
u.select Illinois Project
• Illinois Participating Institutions
– 12 Public Universities
– 48 Community Colleges
– 7 Independent Institutions
Participation
• Course Listing
– Annual submission
– Eight fields
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• Course Equivalencies and URLs
– Requires online transfer articulation tables
• Transfer Plans
– Requires automated degree audit system
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• Request Import
Receiving Institutions
COD
CSU
DePaul
GSU
Loyola
National-Louis
NEIU
UIC
West Suburban
NIU
Bradley
ISU
WIU
Planning Guide, Course Equivalency Guide and Course Listing implemented:
• DePaul University
• Eastern Illinois University
• Illinois State University
• Southern Illinois U at Edwardsville (Fall 2009)
• U of Illinois at Chicago
• U of Illinois at Springfield
• U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• West Suburban College of Nursing
• Western Illinois University
UIUC
UIS
EIU
SIUE
SIUC
Course Equivalency Guide and Course Listing implemented:
• Bradley U
• College Of DuPage
• National-Louis U
• Northern Illinois U
• Southern Illinois U at Carbondale
Course Equivalency Guide or Course Listing implemented:
• Chicago State U
• Governors State U (implementation Spring 2010)
• Loyola U Chicago
• Northeastern Illinois
Sending Institutions
Course listings implemented:
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Black Hawk C.
Bradley U.
Chicago State U.
City Colleges of Chicago
College of DuPage
Danville Area CC.
DePaul U.
Eastern Illinois U.
Elgin CC.
W. R. Harper C.
Heartland CC.
Highland CC.
Illinois Central C.
Illinois Eastern CCs.
Illinois State U.
Illinois Valley CC.
Joliet JC.
Kankakee CC.
Kaskaskia C.
Kishwaukee C.
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C. of Lake County
Lake Land C.
Lewis & Clark CC.
Lincoln Land CC.
John A. Logan C.
MacCormac C.
McHenry CC.
Moraine Valley CC.
Morton C.
National-Louis U.
Northern Illinois U.
Oakton CC.
Parkland C.
Prairie State C.
Rend Lake C.
Richland CC.
Rock Valley C.
Saint Augustine C.
Carl Sandburg C.
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Sauk Valley CC.
Shawnee CC.
South Suburban C.
Southeastern Illinois C.
Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale
Southern Illinois U. at Edwardsville
Southwestern Illinois C.
Spoon River C.
Triton C.
U. of Illinois at Chicago
U. of Illinois at Springfield
U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Waubonsee CC.
West Suburban C. of Nursing
Western Illinois U.
John Wood CC.
Request Import Institutions
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Black Hawk C.
City Colleges of Chicago
College of DuPage
Elgin CC.
Illinois Eastern CC
Lewis & Clark
Lincoln Land CC (Fall 2009)
Moraine Valley CC
Carl Sandburg C
Sauk Valley CC
U of Illinois Chicago (Fall 2009)
U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Fall 2009)
U of Illinois Springfield (Fall 2009)
u.select Illinois
• www.iTransfer.org/uselect
– Explore colleges and universities
– Obtain degree requirements
– View course-by-course equivalencies
– Monitor progress towards a degree
• U Select Your Approach
– Introduce, illustrate, individualize
• Participation
– Course listing, CEG, Transfer Plan, RI
u.select Team
(vacant)
Visiting Project Coordinator
217-244-0931
Marilyn Marshall
Project Director
217-333-3079
mmmurphy@uillinois.edu
Warren Osborne
Technical Coordinator
217-351-2535
wosborne@parkland.edu