Welcome back, this is Katherine Lawlor, the Transfer Jacks Coordinator, and in today's episode, we are gonna define some words that we use in our Transfer Talks Podcast thus far. So for example we will start off with transfer student. Well, a transfer student is a person who took 12 credit hours or more at a 2-year or 4-year college or university after high school completion in the United States. So typically individuals who come in during their first semester as a transfer student will be paired with our Transfer Jacks Mentoring Program. There are some reasons as to why someone may not be paired with our mentoring program and I'm going to define these here shortly, but most transfer students are welcomed, at our events that we host throughout the academic year. Of course, you can participate in our Transfer Jacks Podcast to talk about your transfer experience, but regarding the mentoring program, typically transfer students that are incoming, a person like I mentioned, who took 12 credits or more after high school completion is who is paired with a mentor from our program. Dual enrollment is a different and separate experience. So this is a high school student who took college credit while completing their high school diploma. This individual would be a first-year student and paired with our Peer Jacks Mentoring Program in the Division of Student Affairs. We also have individuals who are international students or scholars. They typically have an F1 or J1 Visa in your passport to allow entry into the United States and they are often served by our International Student and Scholar Services as well as our Center for International Education. The next definition, definition four, I'd like to cover is First-Generation College Students. So neither parent nor guardian for first-generation college students has earned a four-year bachelor's degree, so they are amongst the first in their family to seek out a bachelor's degree. Hispanic Serving Institution is specifically a term used by the Federal Government so I'm going to read the definition and provide some additional context. A Hispanic Serving Institution or HSI is defined as an institution of higher education that is an eligible institution and has an enrollment of undergraduate full-time, equivalent students that is at least 25% Hispanic students at the end of the award year immediately preceding the date of application. So Northern Arizona University is currently, as of 2022-2023 award year, a Hispanic Serving Institution. Now to provide additional context, we certainly understand that there are students who prefer to use the term Latine, or Latine to describe themselves rather than the term Hispanic. However, this is a term based on Federal Government and so we cannot, as a university, change that term or definition. Term number six is TRIO Student Support Services. So to provide a little bit more information about the program, through a grant competition, funds are awarded to institutions of higher education to provide opportunities for academic development, assist students with basic college requirements, and to motivate students towards the successful completion of their post-secondary education. Student Support Services projects also may provide grant aid to current SSS participants who are receiving Federal Pell Grants. The goal of SSS is to increase the college retention and graduation rates of its participants. Typically for Northern Arizona University, we've had TRIO Student Support Services since the 1980s, and eligibility is based on first-generation college status or income eligible or students with disabilities, or a combination of two of those three student groups, as well as there usually it needs to be some type of academic need, so definitely reach out to that program to learn more. We have a number of transfer students who either participate in TRIO Student Support Services while they're in the Transfer Jacks Mentoring Program or they'll do it the semester after their time with our Transfer Jacks Mentoring Program. Number seven definition is military-connected student. So at NAU, you're a military-connected student if you're one of the following, so you qualify as a military-connected student if you plan on attending NAU at the Flagstaff campus, a statewide location, or online, and fulfill specific requirements like being a veteran or active duty service member or service member of the national guard or reserve or spouse or child of a service member or veteran. Definition number eight all students for whom a financial Aid record exists are evaluated for Satisfactory Academic Progress. So Satisfactory Academic Progress is a financial aid record that's created when a student receives any type of financial aid award or for whom NAU receives the results Free Application for Federal Student Aid, also known as FAFSA. This is based on the cumulative GPA, pace of progress, and maximum time frame, which leads me to the definition of maximum time frame because an individual in our Transfer Talks Podcast mentioned this during their experience. So students must complete a degree within a certain number of credits. Undergraduates typically complete a degree within 150% of the number of credit hours required for the degree program, as published in their academic catalog. Example most undergrad degrees required 120 credits, so students are allowed funding up to 180 credits. Really recommend talking with the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid if you are questioning your maximum time frame. That's something that one of our guests mentioned that they were part of having a discussion with this department in order to understand how to find their last semester. This is typical that transfer students may run into maximum time frame but not as common, so just a small percentage of students that are transfer may run into this. The last definition today, number ten, I want to talk about is NAU102, it was mentioned as a class that a transfer student took during their first semester at NAU. I happened to teach the class this past fall semester. We typically have someone who was a transfer student teach the class whether it's an active transfer student or a staff member who was a transfer student and so I can tell you based on the student who talked about their experience, there used to be a 20 page paper years ago, definitely not the same case now. It's currently a seven-and-a-half-week course, taken during the first term of someone's first semester at NAU that is a transfer student. It is optional, so only a few students choose to take it each year, and it's really meant to help you reflect on your transfer experience. So typically the papers are now one to two pages at most. Those are our definitions as of today, based on what we've observed in our Transfer Talks Podcast. We will certainly record more definitions if you have questions about terms being used by our guests during the recording. Thank you!