Thousands of students attend community colleges in Alabama. A large percentage of these students choose to transfer to other colleges and universities in order to complete bachelor degrees. Often students find the transfer process to be both intimidating and stressful. If advisors, counselors, and other community college staff members take an active role in the transfer process, they can help their students avoid future problems related to transfer admissions, transfer of credit, financial aid, and social adjustment.

This course (or mini-curriculum unit) has been design specifically to provide Alabama community college advisors and counselors with ideas or instructional concepts that can be incorporated into existing orientation programs.

NOTE: This course (curriculum unit) can be modified and used to inform other groups about transfer related issues. The course format is simply a suggestion. Please feel free to add to what is presented on this site or use only the specific parts of this course that would be beneficial to your students as you address their current academic situation.

The course is set up based on the following assumptions:

1. It is to be used as a teaching unit within an existing orientation course.
2. It has 3 units ( each design to last approximately 1 hour each or one class period).
3. Effective counseling and advising is important; however, success navigating the transfer process is the ultimate responsibility of the prospective transfer student. Many of the ideas and suggestions are not useful if the student does not take some initiative to investigate and research the transfer process to find out what is required.

If you have questions or suggestions on how we could improve this course, please contact the executive director of the AGSC/STARS Program:

Mr. Keith Sessions
Executive Director, AGSC/STARS
1101South Brundidge Street
ELC Building Suite 107
Troy State University
Troy, AL 36081
334-670-3690
ksessions@stars.troy.edu