Thursday, September 30, 1976
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Juco students feel transfer shock
Staff Writer
By DEB MILLER
All University of Kansas students know the frustrations of enrolling the first time and even though freshmen are assisted by orientation, only recently have organized programs helped community college transfer students adjust to KU.
The expansion of orientation and pre-enrollment programs for transfers is now being implemented. Students enrolled in college to KU, Gay Ann Kearyan, community college adviser and assistant director of admissions, said last week. But the program will transfer students still are having problems.
Christie Burnett, Langdon junior, who transferred from Hutchinson Community College, said she found out that KU is a big place, someone who is unfamiliar with the campus.
"I HAD TO add and drop classes," Burnett said, "and I didn't know exactly what to do. I had trouble finding out what the next step was."
Burnett was suffering what Kearney termed "transfer shock."
“Transfer shock occurs when a student, or anyone, moves from one place to another,” she said. “There is always a period of adjustment.”
About 650 former community college students are newly enrolled this semester, the office of admissions and records estimates.
But that number of transfers has been increasing during the last five years, Kearns said.
The office of admissions and records worries most about the academic problems associated with student dropout.
KEARNEY RECENTLY studied the academic records of 700 transfer students.
"We found that during the first semester, the student's GPA will usually drop about four percent but it comes back up," Kearney said. "This is one symptom of transfer shock."
Several students said they found KU courses harder than their community
Mary Webster, Great Bend senator, said he could take twice as heavy a load at Barton University as he did last year.
Steve Gordon, Caney junior, said, "I didn't have to study at all at Coffeville Community College. It's nice to know that here you have to work for what you earn."
SOME STUDENTS blamed their community colleges for the problems they had with the schools.
Terril Hill, Independence senior, said that after taking Spanish II at Independence Community College, Spanish III here, by comparison, was almost impossible.
Gordon said Coffeville lacked information about the courses he needed at KU. As a result, he had to retake some courses and then went back them, and he took some he didn't need.
However, Max Griffin, assistant director of admissions, said review booklets from KU were available that listed the courses offered to be carried to KU from community colleges.
ALTHOUGH TRANSFER students have problems, it's hard to look at the students as a group. Bob Turvey, assistant dean of men, said, because when they ask for help they often don't identify themselves as transfer students.
Both the dean of men's and dean of women's offices deal with individual problems of transfer students, according to Lora Gruz, assistant dean of women.
To define the problems of transfer students, Kearney did a study three years ago to see how well they were adjusting to KU life.
"For the most part, results indicated the students were adjusting well," she said. "Their credits had transferred, and they didn't have any major problems."
TO HELP THE students adjust, several orientation and pre-employment programs solely for community college students are being expanded, Kearney said.
For example, for the first time, students with fewer than 60 credit hours were allowed to attend freshman orientation this summer. Also, counselors from Johnson
County and Kansas City, Kan., community colleges now come to meet with the University said.
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to the student.
Webster said, "I had trouble getting into the School of Education. I felt it was too difficult."
However, Griffin said, his office received much support for the transfer students, from different schools within the University, which helped establish new programs
for the students, such as early meetings with advisers.
In spite of the problems, most of the students contacted who had transferred to KU from community colleges said they needed more than their community colleges.
Gordon and Webster said community colleges were too much like lignofied high school courses.
"There you just lived at home and went to school," Hill said. "There there's no compartment."
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