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CAEL Webinars

Breaking Down Transfer Barriers: Ensuring Seamless Transitions for Adult Students

Held on: September 11th

Slides from the presentation

Explore strategies for dismantling the obstacles that adult transfer students encounter. This webinar will focus on identifying common hurdles in the transfer process for adult learners and presenting approaches to overcome them. Attendees will gain insights to best practices to facilitate smoother transitions for transfer students. 

 Learning Outcomes:

  • Participants will learn to identify common barriers that adult transfer students face and understand their impact on student success.
  • Participants will be equipped to implement best practices for facilitating smooth transitions. 

PRESENTERS:Vanessa K

Dr. Vanessa Keadle

Title: Partner and Chief Strategy Officer
Organization: Student-Ready Strategies

Profile:

Vanessa Keadle serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for Student-Ready Strategies. In this role, she supports efforts to help more education leaders, institutions, and systems transform through policy and process evaluation, strategic planning and agenda-setting, custom implementation support, and myriad other student-centered, equity-focused higher education services.

​Prior to joining Student-Ready Strategies, Vanessa served as the Senior Strategy Director at Complete College America where she worked with states, systems, and institutional consortia to implement student success strategies. Her expertise is in developmental education reform, particularly corequisite support. Additionally, Vanessa spent nearly three years working for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission as the Coordinator for Research and Evaluation in the Division of Student Affairs.  In that role, Vanessa worked with West Virginia GEAR UP to evaluate the grant program by incorporating data collection strategies to enable rigorous research designs that supported the work of the college access program.