The Transfer Student Center provides students an opportunity to enhance their leadership skills and gain experience working with transfer students. Transfer Center Staff will represent the Transfer Student Center in a professional manner while maintaining that ever-important personal approach. The Transfer Student Center recognizes that transitioning to a 4-year research university from another college or university can be challenging. The Center offers a broad range of programs and services that focus on providing guidance and support, fostering student engagement, and building community on campus.
Transfer Student Center Staff play a vital role within the Transfer Student Center by providing a safe and welcoming environment for transfer students. The Peer Advocate Leads (PALs) will be the group of individuals that will lead and coordinate key project/programming areas in the Transfer Center. The Peer Advocates and PALs will work within their respective teams to execute their projects/goals for the semester while also supporting one another’s efforts.
The Peer Advocate Lead plays a critical role in ensuring that the project team is meeting project goals and objectives. The lead helps to organize and arrange the team’s areas of responsibility, delegates as necessary, and maintain a regular communication with the Transfer Center’s Leadership Team. The Lead works in a team setting and helps to provide the connection and collaboration between and amongst team members. The Lead is a role model for how to manage responsibilities, collaborate, perform duties at the highest level, and contribute to building a strong team culture. Leads will troubleshoot and facilitate any potential project area focuses.
By participating, Peer Advocate Leads have access to professional staff members, develop transferrable skills in leadership and program planning, and may develop a clear understanding of the need for assisting transfer students.
The Operations Team will work to ensure efficient day-to-day operations of the Center. They implement processes and programs, work to ensure helpful services for students, and oversee maintenance of the Center and equipment. The team will take the lead in monitoring and maintaining the Peer Advocate’s work schedule at the Information and Referral Desk during hours of operation. They will also update the work schedule as appropriate to ensure that the Information and Referral desk has coverage Monday through Friday, 9-5pm.
The Outreach Team will be responsible for managing the department’s social media account as well as outreaching to the broader Cal community. This team will work together to inform students about upcoming events and relevant transfer information.
The Transfer Insight Mentorship Program is responsible for the pairing the Mentor/Mentee and daily operations of the mentorship program. The team will assist other areas as assigned.
The Events Team will be responsible to host events for the Transfer Community throughout the semester. This team will work together to create, plan and implement the event to create a sense of community.
The Transition Course Team will be responsible to assist the Instructor with the facilitation of the Transitioning to Cal Transition Courses. The team will develop and implement events/extracurricular activities for students in the class.
The Transfer Volunteer Program is responsible daily operations of the volunteer program. The team will assist other areas as assigned.
