Peer Reference to Help Transfer Students Make the Transition

<p> <strong> Book Summary </strong> :</p><p> <strong> Tailor your institution&rsquo;s approach to transfer students using this collection&rsquo;s creative ideas for orientations, library instruction, partnerships with like-minded campus groups, and other initiatives. </strong></p><p> Higher ed admission teams are aggressively recruiting transfers&mdash;and they&rsquo;re finding success. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, about 38 percent of all students in higher ed in the United States have transferred at least once. If you don&rsquo;t include transfer students in your outreach and instruction planning, you&rsquo;re missing a significant portion of the student body. However, to meet the needs of this population requires academic libraries to rethink assumptions about incoming students. Gathering 17 case studies, the editors present a rich and nuanced picture of academic library services to transfer students that will empower you to achieve transfer student success. You will learn about <ul> <li> organizing around the strengths of transfer students; </li> <li> applying design thinking to ease transfer students&rsquo; &ldquo;culture shock&rdquo;; </li> <li> using autoethnography narratives to better understand the transfer student experience; </li> <li> revamping a transfer student success course by incorporating student reflections; </li> <li> building a campus network of transfer student support and information sharing; </li> <li> partnering with military and veteran support groups on campus; </li> <li> recruiting transfer students to a campus peer mentor program; </li> <li> serving students in health sciences bridge programs; </li> <li> building connections with a fiction book club; and </li> <li> creating personal librarian programs or librarian positions dedicated to transfer students. </li> </ul></p>