CollegeFish.orgOverview

Iowa Regional Officer Team Symposium

Agenda

CollegeFish.org – Why?

Issues Blocking Successful Transfer

Overview of CollegeFish Roles for:

Members

Administrators/Advisors

Introducing CollegeFish.org to your Region

CollegeFish.org Expansion

Some of the issues that can block a successful transfer

• Many students are unaware of the transfer process (1st generation)

• Missed deadlines: Scholarships, Financial Aid, Housing, Course Registration

• Overworked transfer champions

• Limited access to resources to guide the planning process

• Poor credit transfer

• Results: Failure to access or complete a baccalaureate program

How can we assist advisors and members in the transfer process?

Phi Theta Kappa’s Answer?

CollegeFish.org

What is CollegeFish.org?

Featuring use through roles

system.

Members

CC Transfer Advisors

ScholarshipProviders

4 Year TransferCounselors

Phi Theta KappaAdvisors

Highly interactive web-based tool

bringing transfer stakeholders

together.

Student Benefits

Fosters communication between students and advisors

Enables proactive transfer planning for community college students (No cost to the student or college)

Explains the “How, What, Where, Why, and When regarding transfer – available 24/7

Offers college & scholarship information

Student Transfer Tools

College match/search based on student profile

Scholarship search/browse listings

Calendar/deadline tracker

Transfer “Milestones”

College profiles

— Comprehensive information from 3 different data sources (College Board, IPEDS, Thompson Peterson’s)

Any student who has accepted membership in Phi Theta Kappa is automatically enrolled in CollegeFish.org.

Goals

Student Profile

Transfer Preferences

Next Steps

My Matches

FishBowl – select 6 colleges

Home Page

Calendar

College Profile

Scholarship Profile

Treasure Chest

Administrator & Advisor Capabilities

•Same tools as students• College Browse/Search, Scholarship Browse/Search

•Individual Accounts for Advisors & Administrators

•Calendar/Deadlines pushed to students

•Monitor Student Progress• Student search

•Reporting features• Next Steps• Popular school choices• Completed Transfers

Phi Theta Kappa Calendar

Student Search

Advisor Contact Information

Introducing CollegeFish.org to your Region Regional Convention Workshops

Orientation sessions for new chapter members

Computer labs

Educational Materials (guides, brochures)

Chapter / Regional meetings

Email communications with members

Include student quick start guides for those students who rarely make it to campus

Making CollegeFish.org available to everyone Beta testing program that started a year ago

opened in January to include all community colleges in the state of Mississippi.

Nationwide growth is underway for Fall of 2010 – expanding beyond Mississippi.

This will make CollegeFish.org available to every community college student enrolled at a partner community college.

Our goal is to join transfer stakeholders together with the resources of Phi Theta

Kappa to simplify the transfer process – for everyone.