A Socio-ecological Approach to Student Affairs: Support Transfer Students
Includes a Live Web Event on 06/13/2024 at 1:00 PM (EDT)
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Joshua Braaten
Senior Success Coach
George Mason University
Joshua Braaten attended West Virginia University and earned a Bachelor of Science in Sports Management – envisioning a career in the business sector of scholastic or collegiate sport. After graduating from WVU, Joshua began a profession in academia – but as an Academic Advisor at American Public University System where he developed a great passion for student services/coaching within higher education. He has now spent a decade working in a student services role at the collegiate level. Most recently, Joshua has been promoted to Senior Success Coach within the Success Coaching Unit at George Mason University.
Rebecca Mattern
Success Coach
George Mason University
Rebecca Mattern is a 2x Patriot, earning both her Bachelor’s degree in Integrative Studies and her Master’s degree in Counseling and Development from George Mason University. During her graduate program, she worked as a Graduate Assistant and Academic Coach with Learning Services and as the Graduate Career Counseling Intern with Career Services. Rebecca joined the Student Success Coaching team at George Mason in Summer 2022.
Sam Hediger
Success Coach
George Mason University
Sam Hediger is a PhD student at the George Mason Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, working to better understand conflict systems and peacebuilding’s power to address them. While attaining his master’s degree in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University, he worked for three years as a Graduate Peer Mentor, supporting both students and faculty in their renowned University Studies undergraduate program. Sam is also a Student Success Coach at George Mason University.
Transfer students are an integral part of campus communities across a wide variety of institutions in the US. The number of degree-seeking undergraduate students who were enrolled in postsecondary institutions as transfer students in 2020 was 1,243,471. Despite these large numbers, research suggest that transfer students are an often overlooked population of students on our campuses. Utilizing Bronfrenbrenner’s Socio-ecological Model, this presentation seeks to provide student affairs professionals a framework with which they can more holistically connect with transfer students within their individual context. By understanding each student’s micro-, meso-, and macrosystem outlined by Bronfrenbrenner, it is our hope that student affairs professionals will be better able to provide inclusive and holistic supports that can help transfer students not only remain in and graduate from college, but leave school a more fully developed person than when they arrived.
Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify the unique needs of transfer students
2. Learn about the systems identified in Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model
3. Use Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model to better understand the systemic factors that affect transfer students
4. Reflect on their own role in the educational success of transfer students
5. Recognize the importance of collaboration among student affairs professionals
NASPA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd). NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.
Guidelines for earning CE credit:
1 CE is awarded for attending this live session.
No partial credit will be rewarded.
Participants must also complete the feedback survey in the Online Learning Community.
Credit is available for attending the live session and viewing the on-demand recording.
To receive CSAEd credit, attendees must complete the Feedback Survey in the online event offering the certification. Once the survey is completed, your Certificate will be available in the event modules. The Certificate of Completion, which will show the event and credit earnings, is available for download and/or print from the event in your Online Learning Community.
