By AJ Howell-Williams Understanding the Transfer Population Let’s begin with some interesting findings from the recently released 2015 State of College Admission report, produced by NACAC. Nearly 40% of all students who began their college career in 2008 transferred...
Hello, my name is A.J. Williams, and this is my initial foray into a WACAC blog aimed at speaking to the Transfer perspective at a four year institution. The goal is to be able to speak to the joys, challenges, …
If you’re considering using social media to communicate with students and you haven’t yet read Andrew Watts’ post on Medium titled “A Teenager’s View on Social Media,” stop what you’re doing and go read it. Right now. It’s...
If you’re reading this blog for the first time, welcome. And if you’ve read it before, welcome back. Whichever group you fall into, it’s a sure thing that somewhere on the interwebs, a data aggregator knows what pages you’ve clicked …
In a recent opinion column published in the Washington Post, University of Southern California President C.L. Max Nikias advocated strongly in favor of elite universities admitting a significant number of community college transfer students. Writing about the...
Name: that part was easy. Date of birth: June, 1989, which made me a few months short of my 25th birthday the first time I applied to transfer to a 4-year university. A lot older than my perfect cousin, who …