Transfer Student Services (TSS) is a new unit that reports to the vice chancellor for enrollment management. The office will facilitate transfer students’ attendance at UMN Morris, helping transfer students successfully transition to the university and developing strategies to encourage successful and timely completion of transfers’ undergraduate degrees. Informed by best practices, the TSS director will lead collaborative efforts on campus to develop programs and initiatives to connect prospective, new, and continuing transfer students to the university community. 

The TSS director will work to foster a concertedly holistic and student-centered environment for transfer students consistent with the university’s mission and vision. In this leadership role the director will:

• Oversee daily operations of transfer student services.
• Work with faculty and staff to strengthen transfer student enrollment, persistence and success. Ensure that transfer students have a clear pathway to progress through completion at UMN Morris. Provide leadership on matters of policy, procedure, and strategic enrollment related to transfer students, including development, implementation, and continuous assessment of services designed to inform and support transfer student academic preparation, transition and progression to graduation.
• Develop campus capacity to provide structure and support for transfer students, including collaborations with academic affairs and student affairs to enhance transfers’ curricular and co-curricular experiences. Coordinate with transfer specialists within the Offices of the Registrar and Admissions as well as with staff in the Office of Academic Success, One Stop Student Services, and International Student Programs.
• Lead work with internal and external constituents to develop transfer relationships and articulation agreements between community and tribal colleges and UMN Morris. Pursue articulation agreements and serve as point of contact for new articulation agreements.
• In collaboration with other campus units, develop a transfer student organization and associated transfer student peer-mentoring program.
• Generate regular reports on transfer student success, including persistence and graduation
• Serve on appropriate committees, work groups, and task forces.
• Plan and facilitate faculty and staff professional development opportunities around the academic and holistic needs of transfer students.