Transfer Student Week

October 16th - October 20th

Monday 10/16

10am- 11am  | Goodwin Forum 
Coffee and Contemplation 
Ever wanted to ask your Professor how to get more involved in your major? Want to ask them about internships? Come join your fellow professors in a non-stressful environment with coffee and pastries! This event is created for you all to be able to make connections and build your networking skills. 

12:00 pm- 2 pm | Upper Quad
Transfer Student Week Kickoff 
Join us in celebrating our Transfer Students! Transferring is a long complicated process, and we want to celebrate you all this week! This Kickoff is launching our National Transfer Student Week. We will have a photo station, lawn games, and pin making. Come make an “ I Transferred from ____,” pin and celebrate your accomplishments with us. Also pick up some stamp cards for the week's events to win some free SWAG. Did we mention free food?

6:00 pm | Goodwin Forum 
Professional Headshots
Headshots are photos that you can use for professional applications like your email signature, your email profile picture, or even to feature in your resume. RAMP and the Makerspace are going to collaborate on hosting students to come get some professional headshots as well as some artsy portraits. The RAMP Design Team in College Based has revived a vintage instant film art exercise (found in an old aperture magazine from browsing the old stacks of our library) that pushes portraiture into the hands of the person getting their photo taken; imagine colors, string lights, instant film, and searching within. 

Tuesday 10/17

3:00pm - 4:00pm | Lib 114
Hidden Secrets of College Success
Academic policies, rules and deadlines impact your life as a transfer student—learn insider tips from Tim Thomas and Sarah Peters-Gonzalez, Academic Advisors, to be more successful, strategic, and connected about your college education.  

4:00pm - 5:00pm | Lib 114
GPA First Aid
Your academic career spans Community College, Cal Poly Humboldt, graduate school and beyond. There are remedies you can apply to make sure your GPA is in good shape. Registrar staff Jesica Bishop and Melissa Tafoya will review restorative and proactive options that may be available to you. Bring your questions!

Wednesday 10/18

10:00 am - 11 am | Lib 205
Resources For Student Parents 
Drop-in to the recently updated Children's Collection space in the Library on the 2nd floor next to the Makerspace. Here you'll find a new child-friendly design with toys, board books, puzzles, and new furniture - with new books being added to the collection very soon! The Library wants families to feel welcomed and to have a place where you can study with your children. This space also is the location of the lactation room in the Library (check out the key at the front desk). Stop by during this event to connect with librarians, enjoy the space, and learn more about resources for student parents on campus.  

7:00pm - 8:00pm | SAC
Transfer Game Night

Thursday 10/19 

5:00pm- 6:00 pm | Library Makerspace 
Transfer Night in the Makerspace
Get to know the Library Makerspace and hang out with other transfer students. The student staff will have a variety of maker activities set up for you to participate in including knitting and crochet, button and zine making, and demos of other tools available to you for free.  Can't make it for Transfer Night in the Makerspace? Drop-in any time Monday-Friday, 1-7pm this semester with questions you have or to work on projects you've started. 

Friday 10/20

1:00pm-2:00pm | Lib 209/Fishbowl 
Professional Headshots 
Headshots are photos that you can use for professional applications like your email signature, your email profile picture, or even to feature in your resume. RAMP and the Makerspace are going to collaborate on hosting students to come get some professional headshots as well as some artsy portraits. The RAMP Design Team in College Based has revived a vintage instant film art exercise (found in an old aperture magazine from browsing the old stacks of our library) that pushes portraiture into the hands of the person getting their photo taken; imagine colors, string lights, instant film, and searching within. 

2:00pm - 3:00pm | El Centro
Cafe Con Chisme Deconstructing Professionalism!

Chisme is a femme knowledge sharing strategy and has much power in its reclamation within heritage communities. Using the model of cafe con chisme, the facilitators intend to share knowledge and have conversations about strategies to challenge and engage with professionalism in workplace contexts. Professionalism is a tool; it can build or it can break. Professionalism has roots in the intersections of colonialism. This is being hosted during transfer week for the purpose of helping transfer students get some chisme before they move onto the next thing. Facilitators are Henry S. with RAMP and JD Garza with the Career department; both are first generation college students and professionals in the university space. 

6:00pm-7:00pm |  Lib 209/Fishbowl 
LifeMap Presentation 
The lifemap presentation by Loren Collins is an enthusiastically RAMP approved professional development activity. Life Mapping is a tool that allows us to take stock of our dreams, our strengths, and get an understanding of how we can work towards those dreams right here and now. Student staff members (graduate students and undergraduate students) at RAMP appreciated the simple but effective exercise employed by Loren in expanding their mindsets towards graduation and post graduate life. The presentation involves pens, paper, and time to reflect. 

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | West Gym 
Transfer Skate Night 
End the week with a 90’s-2000’s themed skate night! Skates are provided! Bring your stamp cards to our Transfer Student Organization table to win some SWAG!