Transfer Advisory Committee Chairs This year, the IACAC Transfer Advisory Committee was pleased to award scholarships for both the spring and fall semesters. These scholarships were awarded to students transferring from Illinois community colleges to four-year IACAC member institutions who…
Brian Bacon Oakton Community College “We have all been on a journey through COVID, and what a long, strange trip it’s been,” said Julian Parrott, Ed.D, as he reminisced about this past and present season of COVID-19 and engaging with…
Samantha Meranda, Cynthia Delgadillo, and Kristin Smigielski Transfer Advisory Committee Chairs This year, the IACAC Transfer Advisory Committee was pleased to award one $500 scholarship and one $1,000 scholarship for both the spring and fall semesters. These scholarships were awarded…
Nicholas DeFalco North Central College What a difference a few months makes. It seems unbelievable that at the end of February, just weeks before we were ordered to “stay home,” we were gathered together at Moraine Valley Community College for…
Nick DeFalco North Central College Having missed the first two IACAC Transfer Summits due to scheduling conflicts, I was eager to attend the 2018 Summit in its new location at Moraine Valley Community College. While I had been to the…
By Kelli Halfman Transfer Admissions Counselor Eastern Illinois University It was a frigid Friday morning in Palos Hills, Illinois. As a first-time attendee of the #TransferSummit and newly hired Transfer Admissions Counselor, I eagerly arrived to Moraine Valley Community College…
Why would an out-of-state admissions representative attend? Alison Crowley Northern Michigan University The question of the day posed to me at the recent IACAC Transfer Summit was, "Why would an out-of-state admissions representative attend?" Although a good deal of the…
Brian Hodges University of Illinois Springfield That is not really the question. We want students to transfer from their community colleges to four-year institutions, if that is their goal. Rather the question should be, “Are we doing enough to help…