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New site eases college transfers
Hannah Alexander
Issue date: 2/8/08 Section: News
In September 2007, Drexel partnered with AcademyOne, a company that provides web-based services for transfer students through their recently developed web site collegetransfer.net, enabling students to access their course equivalencies.
Drexel is now among nearly 4,000 other U.S. colleges and universities that have subscribed to AcademyOne through the National Course Atlas, composed of over three million courses. According to founder and CEO of AcademyOne, David Moldoff, Drexel was approached in 2005.
"We offered Drexel an early partnership," Moldoff said.
Moldoff himself is a 1978 Drexel graduate of the Lebow College of Business, which was then known as the College of Business and Administration.
According to Vice President of Enrollment and Associate Vice Provost for Academic Management, Joan McDonald, it is too early to tell how collegetransfer.net will effect the transferring process to and from Drexel.
"We are very early in the transfer recruitment cycle for the fall 2008 class," McDonald said. "When we get closer to the summer, we will have a better idea of the overall impact of AcademyOne."
According to Moldoff, 60 percent of all college students transfer at least once before graduating, which is an estimated 2.5 million students. In a press release issued by AcademyOne in September 2007 announcing Drexel's partnership, the purpose of collegetransfer.net is to make major U.S. institutions more "transfer-friendly." According to Moldoff, collegetransfer.net is getting about 6,300 hits a month.
Moldoff also created sponsors the web site YouChoose.net as part of a campaign to make the transferring process easier. Currently, YouChoose.net has 13 pledges since its recent creation Feb. 3.
"We want institutions to publish what's behind the administrative curtain," Moldoff said. "Schools not looking to lose students should want to publish transfer information so the losses can be filled."
According to McDonald, 856 transfer students were enrolled in fall 2008 and over the last 10 years, the retention rate freshmen to sophomore year has averaged 83 percent.
Drexel is now among nearly 4,000 other U.S. colleges and universities that have subscribed to AcademyOne through the National Course Atlas, composed of over three million courses. According to founder and CEO of AcademyOne, David Moldoff, Drexel was approached in 2005.
"We offered Drexel an early partnership," Moldoff said.
Moldoff himself is a 1978 Drexel graduate of the Lebow College of Business, which was then known as the College of Business and Administration.
According to Vice President of Enrollment and Associate Vice Provost for Academic Management, Joan McDonald, it is too early to tell how collegetransfer.net will effect the transferring process to and from Drexel.
"We are very early in the transfer recruitment cycle for the fall 2008 class," McDonald said. "When we get closer to the summer, we will have a better idea of the overall impact of AcademyOne."
According to Moldoff, 60 percent of all college students transfer at least once before graduating, which is an estimated 2.5 million students. In a press release issued by AcademyOne in September 2007 announcing Drexel's partnership, the purpose of collegetransfer.net is to make major U.S. institutions more "transfer-friendly." According to Moldoff, collegetransfer.net is getting about 6,300 hits a month.
Moldoff also created sponsors the web site YouChoose.net as part of a campaign to make the transferring process easier. Currently, YouChoose.net has 13 pledges since its recent creation Feb. 3.
"We want institutions to publish what's behind the administrative curtain," Moldoff said. "Schools not looking to lose students should want to publish transfer information so the losses can be filled."
According to McDonald, 856 transfer students were enrolled in fall 2008 and over the last 10 years, the retention rate freshmen to sophomore year has averaged 83 percent.
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