Transfer-Affirming Programs and Partnerships at East Los Angeles College

How can you work collaboratively at all levels of the institution to prepare students for transfer? Listen and learn as top influencers from East Los Angeles College discuss the programs and partnerships they use to maintain an equity-focused, transfer-affirming campus culture.

Featured Speakers

• Laura Cantú Ed.D., Dean of Student Services

• Paulina P. Palomino, Dean of Student Services (Transfer Champion-Catalyst, 2019)

More Information

• ELAC’s Transfer Center

• Achieving Transfer Equity: A Case Study of East Los Angeles College’s Efforts in Closing Transfer Equity Gaps for their Latinx Student Population (NISTS 2019 Presentation)

Topics covered in this interview:

• Institutional Commitment to Transfer (0:00)

• Preparing Students for Transfer (2:42)

• Increasing Students’ Self-Efficacy (7:13)

• Peer Mentorship and Self-Efficacy (10:39)

• Community Cultural Wealth (14:37)

• Recommended Resources (16:38)

• Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship

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