The mission of the Butte College Transfer Counseling Center is to support student success and provide programs, services, and information resources that enable students to prepare for their transition to a college, university or the workplace.
The Transfer Counseling Center provides counseling and transitional services to all students wishing to attend a four-year college or university. Emphasis is placed on making Butte students the highest priority for admission by focusing services and programs on major and four-year university specific requirements. The Transfer Counseling Center also strives to educate the campus community through presentations, public events, and outreach on strategies and opportunities at four-year colleges.
Transfer Counselor
With the addition of a full time counselor we were able to launch the Transfer Academy, increase the number of class presentations, add hours to our online advising and be a greater presence on campus advertising our services. Moving forward we will be looking to increase our outreach to service area high schools with presentations to counselors, Honors instructors and Parent Night events.
The Transfer Counseling Program Review Recommendations are as follows:
Marketing/Increasing Campus Awareness of Services. The TCC has historically used interns to support program services. The district is currently suspending it use of interns in faculty positions and requiring that any interns in a student service department be supervised 100% of the time they are working. We will have to evaluate the pros/cons of this new requirement and the benifits it may or may not yield. It was also suggested that we use peer ambassadors to help market services. We partnered with PTK and they took on the role of Transfer Ambassadors as their project for the year. We partnered with PTK to host workshops and they presented information about TCC programs and services to classes. We have also refreshed our website, Facebook and signed-on to Grad Guru to better push-out messages related to programs, services and critical dates. We have also purchased and additional mobile cart and placed it in the LRC. We have increased counselor's time dedicated to staffing the two carts and and being more visible on campus. We have also done more to promote the "Don't Cancel That Class" program on and off campus.
Getting Specific Information to Students
In addition to the marketing strategies listed above we are providing workshops to promote the UC/CSU on-line Academic Planners that create a portal of communication between the student and the 4-year college. We have also staffed a table at the Chico Center, presented to classes and hosted a Personal Insight review workshop for UC applicants.
Continue to Utilize Technology to Be More Effective and Efficient
It was recommended that we embrace the use of on-line Ed Plans and provide students the ability to schedule appointments on-line. At this time we are still waiting for the college to upgrade the infrastucture to allow this technology to be implemented. The TCC is fortunate to also host the Chancellor's Transfer Counselor Website. By virtue of this partership we have acces to a staff member with extensive website experience. Unfortunately, the district does not support many of the options available to make our website more dynamic, ntuitive and user friendly.
Staffing and Ongoing Collaboration with Sufficient Staff and Support.
We were fortunate to receive a full-time counselor through a grant proposal for SSSP funds. The grant fund the development of a Transfer Acadamy targeting prospective UC transfers. While we received funding for the counseling postion there were no funds allocated to support the program and the vacant part-time positon was left vacant.
Our goal is to offer a one-stop counseling center that provides prospective transfer students the information and support to plan their academic goals and utilize opportunities to participate in 4-year school transfer initiatives.
Strategy 1 - Meeting Student Demand For Services
Increase the number of individual counseling appointments available to students.
Demand for appointments exceeds availabilty due to staffing shortage. Student Success legislation requires that all students receive a Student Education Plan.
Strategy 2 - Increase Transfer Specific Workshops
Increase the number of workshops available to students including but not limited to application workshops, Transfer Admission Guarantee's (TAG), transferring to CSU/UC/Private schools and competeitve majors, Personal Insight statements for UC applicants and Lunch and Learns to support the recently launched Transfer Academy.
With the increase of four year transfer initiatives, i.e., Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAGS), On-the-Spot Admissions (OTSA), and ADTs there is a greater demand for appointments. Consequently, alternative ways of meeting student demand for appointments wanting basic information about program requirements need to be presented. By providing informational workshops, streaming videos, class presentations and news letter publications students are informed and screened so that only those that qualify or are eligible for a particular service or program would make an individual appointment with the a transfer counselor. These workshops would help to clarify transfer related information so that students that need basic information would receive it and those requiring more specific information or to sign up for a program or service would receive individualize services.
Strategy 3 - Representatives from 4 year Colleges and Universities
Increase the number of visitations by four-year college representatives on campus.
Awareness of transfer opportunities and options to attend 4-year schools is low and there is a need to increase student awareness.
Strategy 4 - Alternative Service Delivery Methods
By creating streaming videos students on and off campus will be able to access an introduction to the various services we offer. Students will be able to view videos to receive basic information or view entire workshops to assist them in completing a particular transfer specific task. Students are not always able to come out to the main campus and providing on-line advising allows them to access information.
Strategy 5 - 4-year university initiatives
Increase the number of initiatives with 4-year schools.
To increase the number of transfer students going to 4-year schools.
There is a need to have an additional office to house a counselor as we are now using a converted supply room.
Transfer Counselor Website grant provides a director buy back at $25,000
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
| Description | Supporting Rationale | Potential Alternative Funding Sources | Prioritization Criteria | |||
| 1 | Transfer Counseling Center | Operating Expenses | 110007091633004 | 54500 | $0.00 | $8,800.00 |
| Resources needed for the publication of Transfer Talk (2,000), hosting Transfer Day (5,000), Transfer Academy related activities (1500). Cover license fee for on-line chat(300). | The Administration Transfer Task Force team recommendations identified that all faculty and students receive Transfer Talk each semester. Transfer Day has continued to expand to include more service area high school participation and the inclusion of 12 Butte programs that offer an AD-T degree. SSSP funds are restricted and do not allow us to support the Transfer Academy's ability to buy materials needed to promote the program (swag), The counseling position to support the transfer academy was approved but there was no monies allocated to support the program. This line item covers yearly renewals for on-line advising, membership dues, and office supplies. |
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| 2 | Transfer Counseling Center | Operating Expenses | 110007091633004 | 55890 | $0.00 | $2,000.00 |
| Resources needed for department operating expenses not eligible for SSSP funds. | We need to develop a transportation budget to cover the bus fee to bring high school students to campus for Transfer Day. We need to be able to buy promotional items to advertise the Transfer Academy across campus and high school visits. |
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| 3 | Transfer Counseling Center | Personnel | XXX000XXX000 | 42953 | $0.00 | $53,578.00 |
| Part-time Counselor | The Transfer Counseling Center services was able to secure a full time counselor last year via a SSSP proposal to develop a Transfer Academy targeting students wanting to transfer to a UC, private or out-of-state school. We have not been able to replace the counseling hours lost when our part time counselor received the full time position. There has been a net loss of available appointments for students to meet with a counselor. |
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| 4 | Transfer Counseling Center | Personnel | 12-262-709-10633004 | $0.00 | $15,400.00 | |
| Clerk1 | The TCC has recently taken on new transfer initiatives to increase the number of students transferring to a UC campus. With the funding of a full time counselor via a SSSP grant we have launched the Transfer Academy and partnered with UC Davis to support an outreach recruiter that is on campus every other week through a UC grant to recruit American Indian students and to meet with prospective students wanting to transfer to any UC campus. Supporting both programs on top of existing duties is taxing our Administrative Assistant and requiring that I redirect counselor resources to support these projects resulting in fewer student appointments. |
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| 5 | Transfer Counseling Center | Personnel | XXX000XXX000 | 52368 | $0.00 | $8,000.00 |
| Student Assistant | One of the student assistant position needed to support TCC operation has historically been a Federal Work Study funded position. It has been difficult to maintain consistency in our student hires and to cover the office during non-instruction periods when they are not allowed to work. We are requesting that the SA position be funded through SSSP funds. This will allows us the flexibility to cover the front office when district funded SA are not available to work during inner session and to bring SA's in for training. |
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