Introduction to Making Transfer Connections

Funded through a 5-year Title V grant, the Making Transfer Connections program: ePortfolio and Student Success Across CUNY, brings together two senior colleges (Queens and Lehman) and three community colleges (Queensborough, Bronx and LaGuardia) in a partnership designed to facilitate transfer and ensure student progress toward the Bachelor’s degree. Under LaGuardia’s leadership, these CUNY colleges integrate ePortfolio practice to strengthen three areas pivotal to transfer success: instruction, advisement, and assessment. These coordinated efforts will address a central goal – building a comprehensive academic pathway toward the baccalaureate degree for Hispanic and other minority and low-income students. The Making Transfer Connection partners will expand and strengthen the implementation of high impact ePortfolio practice on their own campuses. Building cross-campus collaboration and exchange, MTC will generate a more cohesive academic process that helps tens of thousands of Hispanic and other low income students succeed at community colleges and move more effectively to baccalaureate graduation. While benefiting large numbers of students from LaGuardia and partner colleges, MTC will create new transfer models for colleges at CUNY and beyond.

Introduction to ePortfolio and Resources

What is ePortfolio? Learn more about ePortfolios at LaGuardia.

http://eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/about/

Introduction to the Making Transfer Connections(MTC) Project

The Project Coordination

MTC Diagram

The Campus leadership teams from 4 Year senior colleges and 2 year community colleges work with Making Connections coordinating team to plan and organize the Making Transfer Connections project.The project implementation activities are mainly carried out in face to face seminars. The seminars address issues of transfer in multiple dimensions covering themes as pedagogy and faculty development, advisement and assessment.

The campus leadership team, in their individual campus, identify stakeholders according to the select theme of the seminars. The stakeholders are invited to attend the project seminars as the campus team. In the seminars, the stakeholders and the campus leadership teams have opportunities to exchange ideas and model practices with other schools. Then each campus teams come together to address the thematic issues and discuss ways to move the project forward.

See the slides below for overview of the project.