The Innovating Edge: Current Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Awardees Share Lessons Learned

1. The Innovating Edge: Current Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Awardees Share Lessons Learned • M. Ofelia Aguirre, Education Programs Manager at UC Santa Barbara (unable to attend) • Christina Dubb, Program Coordinator-Community College Connection at Bryn Mawr • Amy Grosso, PhD and Jack Kent Cooke Post-doctoral Fellow in Education at Southwestern University • Alfred Herrera Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Partnerships at UCLA • Paul Jimenez, Clinical Faculty, Director of Fieldwork and Community Outreach at Loyola Marymount University • Eileen Strempel, Assistant Vice President at Syracuse University

2. Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Awardees of the "Improving Access for Community College Transfer Students to Selective Four-Year Institutions" program • Sharing of innovative edge best practices aimed at increasing community college transfer students to 4 year institutions • Contribution to the discussion about creative and replicable models that facilitate transfer and articulation • Presentation of strategies for implementing new ideas, approaches and programs to facilitate successful student transfer

3. Bryn Mawr College’s Community College Connection (C3) • Bryn Mawr = small (1200 students), liberal arts, women’s college • Partners with two local community colleges, primarily working through their honors programs • 2012-13 brought in 32 transfer students, 15 of whom are through C3

4. Creating the Pipeline Open office hours and information sessions at our partner CCs BMC Visit days – for both faculty and students BMC faculty reviewed CC syllabi for transferability Created transfer guides for general transfer credits and most popular majors

5. Preparing to Transfer to Bryn Mawr College For students in the Community College of Philadelphia Honors Program 2012-2013 Bryn Mawr College welcomes prospective students from the CCP Honors Program! We hope that the following information will help you make good decisions as you work towards your associate’s degree. If you have questions, please contact the Community College Transfer Coordinator, Christina Dubb, at 610-526-5147 / cdubb@brynmawr.edu. General information regarding transfer credit Students must earn a total of 32 units (equivalent to 128 CCP credits) to complete the A.B. at Bryn Mawr. In evaluating the number of transfer credits students will be awarded towards their Bryn Mawr degrees, Bryn Mawr will normally add up all transferrable credits from CCP and divide by 4. Courses that will not transfer Bryn Mawr College will not accept on-line courses. Many other courses offered at CCP, including most pre-professional courses and some courses that students take regularly to complete CCP’s distribution requirements (such as MATH 118 and CS 103), will not transfer to Bryn Mawr. Students are therefore urged to consult the Bryn Mawr C3 Coordinator and follow the guidelines below to optimize the number of transfer credits they earn. Courses that will transfer under certain conditions No more than two of the following courses can count as electives towards the Bryn Mawr degree: CCP: MATH 121 Computer Mathematics and Logic CCP: MATH 137 Geometry for Design CCP: MATH 150 Introductory Data Analysis CCP: MATH 151 Linear Mathematics CCP: MATH 152 Probability CCP: MATH 153 Mathematics of Personal Finance CCP: MATH 161 Precalculus I/MATH 162 Precalculus II BMC: QUAN 001 Quantitative Seminar BMC: MATH 001 Fundamentals of Mathematics Meeting Bryn Mawr’s General Graduation Requirements Approaches: Students are strongly encouraged to satisfy all four prior to matriculating at Bryn Mawr: One course in Critical Interpretation (CI): Satisfied by the core honors curriculum. One course in Inquiry Into the Past (IP): Satisfied by the core honors curriculum. One course in Cross-Cultural (CC): can be satisfied by HUM 101 (honors) or by HUM 170, HUM 180, PHIL/REL 151, SOC 115 or SOC 233. One course in Scientific Investigation (SI): Non-science majors may satisfy this requirement with BIOL 106, CHEM 110, CHEM 105, or PHYS 105. Students interested in majoring in the sciences should follow the advice of their prospective major department. One Quantitative / Math Course (QM): Satisfied by GIS 101 or any math course at or above 163. Foreign Language (FL): Students are encouraged to begin work towards this requirement while at CCP 1) Students who complete a minimum of 9 credits of consecutive foreign language courses at CCP satisfy the entire Bryn Mawr FL requirement. 2) Students who complete a minimum of 6 credits of consecutive foreign language courses at CCP take a placement exam upon matriculation and complete one additional course at the appropriate level at Bryn Mawr or Haverford College to satisfy the FL requirement. 3) Students who complete fewer than 6 credits of foreign language courses at CCP will complete the entire foreign language requirement at Bryn Mawr. One course to meet the Emily Balch Seminar requirement (Esem): The ESem requirement must be completed in the first semester at Bryn Mawr. Students who matriculate in the fall will take an Emily Balch Seminar. Those who matriculate in the spring will take English 125 (Writing Workshop).

6. A Guide to Preparing for the Major in Psychology at Bryn Mawr College • For students at Montgomery County Community College and Community College of Philadelphia2012-2013 • The Bryn Mawr College Department of Psychology welcomes prospective majors from MCCC and CCP! We hope that the following information will help you make good decisions as you work towards your associate’s degree. If you have questions, please contact the Community College Transfer Coordinator, Christina Dubb, at x5147 / cdubb@brynmawr.edu. • Summary of the Bryn Mawr College Major in Psychology • Students may complete a minor in neural and behavioral sciences to complement the major. Major requirements in Psychology are: • One introductory course (PSYC 105)* • One course in experimental method and statistics with laboratory (PSYC 205) • Four elective 200-level courses surveying major content areas of psychological research.* • Three elective 300-level courses offering specialization within a content area or integration across areas • One semester of senior seminar (Psych 399) or two semesters of supervised research (Psych 401 or 403) to provide an intensive and integrative experience in psychology to culminate the undergraduate career. Transferring Psychology Courses from MCCC and CCP Please remember that Bryn Mawr does not transfer any courses taken in an on-line format. The psychology department will accept up to two courses towards the major in psychology. The department will accept one 3- or 4-credit transfer course toward the introductory psychology requirement and one additional 3- or 4-credit course from the list below towards the 200-level elective requirement, provided the student has earned a grade of B or better in each course. The student should meet with the chair to confirm which courses will be transferred over. To petition the department to count a course not included in the list below, a student may submit a syllabus and copies of work completed in the course (e.g., exams, papers, etc.). Because the introductory courses at MCCC and CCP do not include experimental labs, students will need to include one laboratory course within the 200- and 300-level electives she takes after transferring to Bryn Mawr. Transfer students will be expected to take PSYC 205 (Experimental Methods and Statistics) and a 200-level elective OR two 200-level electives in the first semester at Bryn Mawr.

7. Strengthening PathwaysA partnership between Southwestern University and Austin Community College • Facilitate lasting change • First-order change: doing more-or less-of something we are already doing... always reversible • Second-order change: is deciding-or being forced-to do something significantly or fundamentally different... irreversible • Civic Engagement to facilitate change • Important to look beyond our own program • How do we use the power of the students’ stories?

8. Peer Mentors • as • Transfer Agents • UCLA CCCP

9. LMU’S Cook Undergraduate Research Scholars Academy (CURSA)

10. Creating a Transfer Student Receptive Institutional Ecosystem

11. The Critical Component: Visible and Viable Pathways • Predictive Financial Aid • ”Having my person” *Net Price Calculator developed exclusively for transfer students

12. Transfer Strategic Plan