{"id":146574,"date":"2021-08-17T14:32:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=146574"},"modified":"2021-08-17T14:32:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T00:32:13","slug":"transfer-students-data-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/17\/transfer-students-data-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"How to better serve transfer students, focus of data symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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Transfer students comprised about 40% of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>\u2019s degree-seeking undergraduate student population in fall 2020, according to data provided by the M\u0101noa Institutional Research Office<\/a> (MIRO<\/abbr>). To better understand how data can be used to aid transfer students and support the university\u2019s decision-making process, MIRO<\/abbr> hosted a virtual symposium on August 12 where they shared transfer student data trends, demonstrated useful data tools and held meaningful discussions with attendees and UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s former Assistant Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Ronald Cambra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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MIRO<\/abbr>‘s graduate assistant Karese Kaw-uh presents during the virtual symposium.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This symposium attracted approximately 90 registrants from UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa, other UH<\/abbr> campuses, as well as universities outside of the UH<\/abbr> system. Led by Director Yang Zhang<\/strong>, MIRO<\/abbr>\u2019s staff shared a series of innovative and comprehensive data tools created in-house at MIRO<\/abbr>. Its symposium included data on admissions, enrollment, persistence (whether students stayed at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa for their academic career), degree, time-to-degree, grade point average, and various quantitative and qualitative survey results.<\/p>\n

“What we\u2019ve demonstrated and discussed here are only the tips of icebergs containing rich data that MIRO<\/abbr>\u2019s webapps can offer to help us better understand the transfer student population. We encourage UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s faculty and staff members to make good use of those data tools and use data to better assist our students,” Zhang said.<\/p>\n

Cambra, who retired earlier this year after a 47-year career at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a>, described highly-successful initiatives that have been created to assist transfer students and the entire undergraduate student population under his leadership. These include the establishment of the Council of Academic Advisers and the Manoa Transfer Coordination Center, the development of the four-year academic plan and the STAR<\/abbr> degree audit program.<\/p>\n

To view the presentation and previous virtual symposium topics, visit MIRO<\/abbr>\u2019s website<\/a>, and sign up for MIRO<\/abbr>\u2019s newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on its latest findings and future symposiums.<\/p>\n

This work is an example of UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s goal of Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), one of four goals identified in the 2015–25 Â鶹´«Ã½<\/a> (PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n

—By Marc Arakaki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MIRO<\/abbr>\u2019s staff shared newly-created innovative and comprehensive data tools to better understand and serve transfer students to UH<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[757,962,1466,386,9],"class_list":["post-146574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-admissions","tag-enrollment","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-institutional-research","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146584,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146574\/revisions\/146584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}