Transfer Resources for Faculty and Staff
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LaGuardia Community College’s transfer model meets students where they are. This college-wide approach means advisors, faculty, and all other staff members work together to support students throughout the transfer process to four-year colleges. LaGuardia achieves this by preparing students to develop research and college navigation skills needed to transfer and persist at four-year colleges.
Below, you’ll find information about the role that advisors, faculty, and staff are expected to play in helping LaGuardia students prepare to transfer to a four-year college.
For more information about transferring from LaGuardia to four-year colleges, scholarships, and special programs, email transfer@lagcc.cuny.edu.
Advisors offer guidance about courses, credits, and plotting a path to four-year colleges. There are five academic advising offices (Student Academic Advising, ASAP, International Student Services, College Discovery, and Veterans Services). In addition to full-time advisors, Transfer Peer Mentors are LaGuardia alumni enrolled at a CUNY four-year college who provide support for students transferring to those institutions.
Faculty share expertise about majors, career options, research opportunities, and information about campus transfer activities. In addition to writing letters of recommendation for individual students, faculty contribute to facilitating transfer across institutions by establishing articulation agreements and CUNY’s core competencies.
Staff who work in Admissions, Student Financial Services, the Wellness Center, the Center for Career and Professional Development, and other offices also play a pivotal role in transfer. Staff members support the logistics of transfer, help with the negotiation of academics and personal life, and prompt students to attend transfer-related opportunities, apply to scholarships, and research other special programs that the college sponsors.
Faculty and Staff Transfer Mentorship
Faculty and student-facing staff can play an important role in mentoring students on their transfer journey. Adopting a transfer mindset can help faculty and staff provide vital support for LaGuardia students looking to earn a bachelor’s degree after they complete their studies here.
Faculty and staff can be “transfer mentors,” rather than “transfer experts.” With so many programs and so many colleges, it isn’t possible for any one person to know the intricacies of every or even most pathways, but we can still provide support and guidance.
We can help students. Many questions and situations involve general support and critical thinking and research skills that we can help develop by researching with them rather than for them.
We can understand that transfer is less about technical questions or the application itself and more about supporting students to achieve their goals. The application process is important, but the student’s learning, self-advocacy, and motivation are paramount.
Attend a Mentor Mindset event to learn an approach to transfer guidance that is intuitive, simple, and informed by best practices. Emails are sent each semester from the Transfer Engagement Initiative team with dates for these opportunities.
- Ask students about their academic interests and transfer and career goals: Do they have a clear vision of their future? If not, what can they do to explore? Are they doing well academically from a general education perspective and from a major/program core perspective? Share resources that will support their exploration:
- Share with students what it means to earn a bachelor’s degree (and beyond): Provide basic information on what transfer means (60+60=120 credits; upper-level courses; applying; etc.). Share your experience, talk about upper-level courses a student might take at a four-year college, and provide general knowledge on declaring a major or minor, electives, graduate study, etc.
- Encourage students and follow up on their progress: Ask simple questions like “have you thought about transfer,” or “have you started researching or applying to schools?” Encourage students to start the process and foster a sense of self-advocacy. If applicable, offer to write a letter of recommendation.
- Refer students to their advisor for course-related planning, Student Financial Services for tuition support and FAFSA application completion, and the Office of the Registrar for transcripts.
- Suggest scholarships, special programs, and four-year college admissions that offer full financial support for qualifying students. A list is available on the Transfer Resources for Students webpage.
- Encourage them to attend the Transfer Fair held each semester and transfer application workshops throughout the year. View the for the latest information.
Resources
Below is a collection of links and resources that may be helpful as you mentor students on their transfer journey. You may find these to be helpful tools for educating yourself on the transfer process or for sharing with students who need information on the transfer process.
- CUNY Colleges: A list of CUNY colleges that LaGuardia students may be interested in transferring to.
- CUNY Info Sessions: CUNY regularly hosts info sessions for students to learn more about the transfer process within CUNY.
- CUNY Scholarships: List of CUNY-specific scholarships, general scholarships, and scholarship databases.
- Transfer Explorer (T-Rex): Highlights course equivalencies across CUNY. Important: the information is not always up-to-date or accurate. Students should contact their college of interest to confirm.
- CUNY Scholarships: List of CUNY-specific scholarships, general scholarships, and scholarship databases.
- Transfer Scholarships and Programs with LaGuardia Partners: LaGuardia has partnerships with various schools and organizations that offer programs and scholarships for transfer students.
- Net Price Calculator: A net price calculator to determine the true cost of attendance of a given college.
- Articulation Agreements and Academies: An overview of LaGuardia’s articulation agreements and pipeline programs, which provide students with a seamless path to a bachelor’s degree.
- Calendar of Transfer Events at LaGuardia: A calendar of info sessions, fairs, scholarship deadlines, and other transfer-related events that students can attend.
- Degree Maps: Provide an overview of the courses required for each major and list articulation agreements/ transfer opportunities available for each.
- Fields of Interest Page: Information on the career and transfer opportunities available for each LaGuardia major.
- Transfer Scholarships and Programs with LaGuardia Partners: LaGuardia has partnerships with various schools and organizations that offer programs and scholarships for transfer students.
- Student Financial Services: Students can visit the SFS Resource Center in C-109 for assistance applying for financial aid.
- Transfer FAQs: A list of answers to questions students often ask about the transfer process.
- Transfer Tracker: This spreadsheet can help students keep track of information about the colleges they are applying for.
- Big Future College Search: A searchable database of colleges throughout the United States, searchable by location, major offerings, and other criteria
- Department of Education College Scorecard: A searchable database of colleges throughout the United States that highlights median earnings for schools and programs.
- SUNY Colleges: A list of SUNY colleges that LaGuardia students may be interested in transferring to.
Applications and Deadlines
Below is a series of application links and deadlines for CUNY, SUNY, and other colleges. Please remind students of these deadlines as they approach throughout the year.
| Application | Deadlines | Application | Contact Info |
| CUNY |
Students may apply after these dates on a rolling basis. |
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| SUNY | Check individual SUNY college websites. | Apply here or via the Common App. |
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| Common App | Most schools accept the Common App. Deadlines vary by college. | Apply here | Common App support at thecommonapplication@liaisoncas.com or via LiveChat in the application. School-specific contact info varies by college. |
| Other Schools | Deadlines vary by college. | Application links vary by college. | Contact info varies by college. |
Resources
Below is a collection of links and resources that may be helpful as you mentor students on their transfer journey. You may find these to be helpful tools for educating yourself on the transfer process or for sharing with students who need information on the transfer process.
- Fields of Interest Page: Information on the career and transfer opportunities available for each LaGuardia major.
- Degree Maps: Provide an overview of the courses required for each major and list articulation agreements/ transfer opportunities available for each.
- Articulation Agreements and Academies: An overview of LaGuardia’s articulation agreements and pipeline programs, which provide students with a seamless path to a bachelor’s degree.
- LaGuardia Transfer Events Calendar: A calendar of info sessions, fairs, scholarship deadlines, and other transfer-related events that students can attend.
- Student Financial Services: Students can visit the SFS Resource Center in C-109 for assistance applying for financial aid.
- CUNY Colleges: A list of CUNY colleges that LaGuardia students may be interested in transferring to.
- SUNY Colleges: A list of SUNY colleges that LaGuardia students may be interested in transferring to.
- Big Future College Search: A searchable database of colleges throughout the United States, searchable by location, major offerings, and other criteria.
- Department of Education College Scorecard: A searchable database of colleges throughout the United States that highlights median earnings for schools and programs.
- Transfer Explorer (T-Rex): Highlights course equivalencies across CUNY. Important: the information is not always up-to-date or accurate. Students should contact their college of interest to confirm.
- CUNY Scholarships: List of CUNY-specific scholarships, general scholarships, and scholarship databases.
- CUNY Info Sessions: CUNY regularly hosts info sessions for students to learn more about the transfer process within CUNY.
- Net Price Calculator: A net price calculator to determine the true cost of attendance of a given college.
- Transfer Tracker: This spreadsheet can help students keep track of information about the colleges they are applying for.
- Transfer FAQs: A list of answers to questions students often ask about the transfer process.