Traditionally, every third week of October is Transfer Student Week, and UNC Greensboro has long recognized the unique journeys of each transfer student that leads them to UNCG to finish their degree.

Thirty-eight percent of UNCG’s current students started out as transfer students, an increase each year. This fall, 42% of all new students transferred from another college. Faculty, staff, and administration aim for them to feel at home on campus as much as incoming high school students, with groups such as Transfer2Transfer mentoring, Connect special interest housing, and Tau Sigma.

Next week we tip our hats to the faculty and staff members that make UNCG a welcoming place for transfers and we applaud those students for “finding their way here.” Encourage your favorite transfer students to RSVP for the Transfer Taco Truck at Minerva on Monday, October 21 and the Transfers Reaching the Top rock-climbing event at the Kaplan Center on Thursday, October 24.  

UNCG will kick off Transfer Student Week on Monday, October 21, with tacos! The Taco Bros food truck will be in front of the Minerva statue, and the first 75 transfer students who RSVP will receive a lunch for free. Transfer Student Success invites everyone to attend in honor of transfer students and the UNCG staff who support them.

Faculty and staff can find other inspiration for ways to celebrate their transfer students at the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students website. Updated graphics can be downloaded from the University Communications website here.