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Date:
Tue, Nov 10, 2026
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Venue:
Microsoft Teams
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ADA Compliant Recording, Real-time Captioning
Building a Transfer-Friendly Institution: An Admissions and Advisement Partnership
Abstract
Are you looking to improve your communication plan to prospective transfers and veteran and military-connected students? Do you want to create more pathways to your institution? Are you struggling to find ways to collaborate with your community college partners? Join us for an in depth look into the ins and outs of what it means to be a transfer-friendly institution. Whether it's developing a recruitment and communication plan, engaging your community college partners, creating more pathways to degree completion, or simply giving students the attention they deserve, building a transfer-friendly institution is a collaborative process that builds on how much value you place on this special population.
About the Presenters
Maria Campanella, Director of Transfer and Special Population Admissions, and Tracey Iorio, Assistant Director of Upper-Class and Transfer Advising, both support transfer student success at Stony Brook University.
Maria brings experience in transfer admissions, advising, and student services and currently serves as President of the New York State Transfer and Articulation Association (NYSTAA). Tracey works directly with students on transfer credit evaluation, academic advising, and degree completion pathways.
Together, they bring complementary perspectives on how admissions and advising can work together to create a more transfer-friendly institution.
Will You Be Our Next Transfer Trailblazer?
Transfer Trailblazers is about highlighting the great work already happening across SUNY and creating more opportunities for campuses to learn from one another.
If your campus has a program, initiative, policy, practice, or promising approach related to transfer that others could learn from, we’d love to feature it in an upcoming session.
Presenters do not need to be Transfer Liaisons. We welcome proposals from colleagues across your campus who are engaged in transfer-related work and encourage liaisons to help us identify and connect with colleagues doing work worth sharing.
Have an idea? Raise your hand to become a Transfer Trailblazer!