Create physical university transfer centers on senior college campuses

Transfer students get a physical space on the university campus for advising, orientation and peer mentoring. Belonging is hard to engineer, and a room helps more than it should.

Campus space and an operating budget to staff it.

Director of the Transfer Student Center

One institution alone

Medium, 8 months to first visible effect

Use of the center; first-to-second-year transfer retention

Locating the center in a remote or hard-to-find campus building can reduce student traffic.

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