Miars said it can be frustrating
for transfer students — who are
not entering college for the first
time — to be treated like freshmen
who are coming to the University
from high school. However, she
notes the University cannot treat
transfer students like returning
sophomores or juniors either.
“There’s also the danger of
going the complete opposite way
and being like: ‘Transfer students
have already been to college,
they already know everything
and they don’t need our help,’”
she said. “That attitude can also
be problematic: We are new to
this University, and there are
things we don’t understand and
challenges to overcome.”
Klootwyk
and
Miars
said
transfer students face additional
challenges when choosing the
right classes, joining campus
organizations, securing housing
and making new friends.
According to data provided
by Public Affairs, the University
received
3,691
transfer
applications
in
total
during
Spring, Summer and Fall 2014
— of those, 1,408 were offered
admission and 1,041 enrolled.
This would place the 2014
acceptance rate for transfer
applications at about 38 percent,
slightly higher than the 32
percent
acceptance
rate
for
freshmen applications for the
academic year 2014, calculated
using data from the Office of
Undergraduate
Admissions’
“Admitted Student Profile.”
About
53
percent
of
the
enrolling transfer students were
out-of-state students.
Less than 35 percent of the
applications came from students
at two-year schools, while fewer
than 65 percent came from
students at four-year schools
and the remaining few came
from students whose current
enrollment
was
unknown,
according to the data set.
One hundred sixty students
applied
to
transfer
to
the
University
from
Washtenaw
Community
College,
and
of
those, 51 percent were offered
admission.
This
year,
the
CSG
Commission on Transfer Student
Resources conducted a survey of
334 current transfer students at
the University.
The survey found that 75
percent of respondents said they
utilize some form of financial
assistance.
Fifty
percent
of
participants self-reported their
socioeconomic status as upper-
middle or upper class, 18 percent
said they are lower-middle class
and 15 percent identified as
working class.
Additionally, 51 percent of
current
student
participants
transferred from a domestic four-
year institution, 40 percent from
a domestic two-year community
college and the remaining 9
percent
from
international
colleges and universities.
From community college to
the University
Klootwyk said while many
students would love to attend
a university immediately after
graduating from high school, for
some students, that is not a realistic
option for various reasons.
“You want to be able to tell
everybody: ‘I’m going to MSU’ or
‘I’m going to U of M,’” Klootwyk
said. “And so even after a
successful high school career, I
went to Muskegon Community
College. And that wasn’t the
most glorious choice, but it was
the cheaper option, and I am
paying for it.”
He
said
though
he
was
unable to come straight to the
University after high school,
living at home with his family
to attend community college for
two years saved money.
Miars said because Grand
Valley — a state university — is
set up similarly to the University,
she feels she had less difficulty
adjusting when she transferred
than her friends and peers who
attended
community
college
before the University.
“There are just additional
challenges
coming
from
a
community college,” she said.
“Obviously it’s just a different
academic setting than a four-
year institution, and so there’s
additional challenges adjusting
to that.”
Advising and mentoring
Klootwyk said the University
has some resources to help
transfer
students
assimilate,
and both he and Miars have
dedicated their time at the
University to both improving
those that currently exist as well
as developing more.
“There are some resources
that are really strong and are
possibly under-utilized, he said.
“And then there are resources
that simply don’t exist that
possibly ought to.”
One of these existing resources
is
Transfer
Orientation
for
admitted students.
Klootwyk said orientation can
be an enormous tool for transfer
students and can help them
get a feel for campus life, learn
about student organizations and
explore possible housing options.
“However, there’s a downside
in that for transfer students,
orientation is much shorter (than
freshman orientation) — it’s a
one-day, five-hour process,” he
said. “At a university this size,
how much can you tell someone
in one afternoon?”
Another
such
resource
is
Transfer Connections, a peer-
mentoring program run by the
Office of New Student Programs
for LSA students.
Transfer Connections offers
new students a chance to join
together in small groups led by
former transfer students to ease
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Dogs in the
Library
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Therapaws of Michigan will
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Harold & Vivian Library,
Browsing Collection
Polish Jews
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Dariusz Stola, professor
of history and director of
the POLIN Museum of the
History of Polish Jews.
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communities can
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Building, Room 1040
Renovation
WHAT: A day full of
activities will kick off the
IMSB renovation and be
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Students leave, pets abandoned
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The Humane Society of
Huron Valley noted a sig-
nificant increase in its ani-
mal population during the
spring, citing students leav-
ing for college who wanted
to get rid of their pets.
Diane Allevato, the orga-
nization’s executive direc-
tor, said the trend is nothing
new: students often give up
their pets after they realize
the new location they are
moving to does not allow
them.
Estimates
from
the
Humane Society show that
approximately 2,500 ani-
mals were brought to the
animal shelter last year due
to student housing prob-
lems. Though all animals
brought to the society are
put up for adoption, only
about 18 percent of them find
a new home.
Animals were typically
held for about week and are
then euthanized as new ani-
mals are brought in. In 1980,
about 115 animals were ter-
minated weekly at the cen-
ter.
During an average week,
only a few animals are
turned in to the society, the
Ann Arbor Police said. These
animals typically have own-
ers, but only two out of five
dogs are picked up by their
owners within a few days.
Apart from dogs and cats,
she said the humane society
also receives exotic animals.
Allevato
recommended
that students and communi-
ty members who were forced
to give up their pets adver-
tise to coworkers, friends
and family before bringing
them to the Humane Soci-
ety.
She explained that an
animal’s chances of being
adopted might be higher if
a potential owner has some
information on the animal’s
background.
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Lentils
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Underground.”
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Sustainable Food
Systems Initiative
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Securities
and futures
WHAT: This lecture will
feature Alexa Lam, who
recently stepped down as
Deputy Chief Executive
Officer of the Hong
Kong Securities and
Futures Commission.
WHO: Lieberthal-Rogel
Center for Chinese Studies
WHEN: Today from
4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Michigan
League, Vandenberg Room
Conservative
Netanyahu faces
coalition building
challenges
JERUSALEM (AP) — With a
resounding election victory last
month, Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to
have an easy path toward quickly
establishing a coalition govern-
ment with his traditional nation-
alist, religious and ultra-Orthodox
Jewish allies.
But after weeks of negotiations
with potential partners, Netanya-
hu is finding the task harder than
expected and is flirting with the
idea of reaching out to his main
dovish rivals to form a unity gov-
ernment. As he decides which
path to take, he will seek an addi-
tional two-week extension to put
his coalition together.
Which way Netanyahu goes
will have broad implications. If
he sides with the hard-line allies
that he often calls his “natural”
partners, Netanyahu will have a
solid parliamentary majority of
like-minded parties that could
avoid much of the infighting that
plagued the outgoing government
and provide some welcome politi-
cal stability at home.
But such a coalition — averse to
peace moves with the Palestinians
and in favor of expanded settle-
ment construction in the West
Bank — quickly would find itself
on a collision course with the
international community at a time
when Netanyahu is already feud-
ing with his allies over the mori-
bund peace process and a nuclear
deal with Iran that he loathes. A
unity government that includes
his leftist rivals would help blunt
that looming international isola-
tion.
Throughout the heated cam-
paign, Netanyahu ruled out the
possibility of joining forces with
Isaac Herzog and his center-left
Zionist Union and vowed to rule
from the right.
Election results gave his Likud
Party 30 seats and secured him
a potential 67-seat majority of
the 120-seat Knesset along with
his traditional allies. In negotia-
tions, however, these allies have
made demands to head power-
ful government ministries, and
an initial four-week window to
form a new government is now
set to expire.
On Monday, he is scheduled
to meet Israel’s largely ceremo-
nial president, Reuven Rivlin, and
seek a two-week extension. Under
Israeli election rules, if he fails to
form a coalition during that time
Rivlin then can assign someone else
the task of doing so.
Israeli prime minister could
unite with dovish opponents