Will be awarded at the 25th National Conference on Students in Transition Posted Monday, September 24, 2018 @ 11:36 AM The University of Central Florida received notification this week that they were selected as one of the recipients of the National Resource Center’s Institutional Excellence for Student in Transition Award. The Institutional Excellence for Students in Transition is awarded annually to institutions that have designed and implemented outstanding collaborative initiatives enhancing significant transitions during the undergraduate experience. UCF is receiving this award in recognition of their work with the “Foundations of Excellence” (FoE) Project. FoE is a multi-year, multi-phase process with the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. The goal of this transfer initiative was to raise awareness of transfer student issues, shape the university culture to better accommodate our transfer students, and focus on transfer students’ transition points. To date, FoE, now re-established as Transfer Alliance, has redesigned transfer orientation and the first year transition process, created a campus-wide Transfer Philosophy Statement, increased faculty and staff engagement in transfer success initiatives, and developed new concepts around the transfer credit evaluation process. Drs. Jennifer Sumner and Jason Dodge will be traveling to Indianapolis, Indiana in October to accept the award on behalf of the University at the 25th National Conference on Students in Transition. UCF is one of the top transfer-serving institutions in the country. During the 16-17 academic year, the institution enrolled 10,976 new transfer students and 25,304 transfer students overall; making up just over half of the UCF undergraduate population. Further, approximately one-third of associate degree graduates from Florida’s state/community college system transfer to UCF. UCF’s goals of providing opportunity, focusing on diversity and inclusion, and to be America’s Partnership University, have all been driving factors behind our strong focus on and national leadership in the field of transfer. Like Tweet Share < Back to News