The Lion's Roundtable (Guest: Kandace Formaggio )
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Todd Delaney:Discussing topics of interest to the university, Hammond and the surrounding communities. This is the Lions Roundtable. Now, here's your host, Doctor. Amber Narro.
Dr. Amber Narro:Good day. Good day. It is a Friday here in Hammond America on KSLU's ninety point nine FM, the Lion. I am here with my sweet friend, Kandace Formaggio. She's with the Transfer Success Center here at Southeastern Transfer Student Success Center, TSSC, and she's gonna share with us a little bit about how you can get your future Lions here if they're at other universities or colleges.
Dr. Amber Narro:Welcome, Candice. So glad to have you.
Kandace Formaggio:Amber, thank you for having me.
Dr. Amber Narro:Absolutely. So this is your first time on the Lions roundtable, but I've interviewed you before for all sorts of other things, Mary Market, the the the Transfer Student Success Center, things in First Year Success. You you are a lot of things Southeastern. So glad to have you.
Kandace Formaggio:Thanks. I've been here for a long time. Yes. Yeah. Eighteen years of just helping students.
Dr. Amber Narro:I know. We started around the same time. Yeah. Yes. I've been here for about that length of I think I'm 19 now.
Dr. Amber Narro:Like, almost 19 in in January.
Kandace Formaggio:Well, so, you know, I got my undergrad here, and I did dual not dual enrollment. It wasn't called that then. I did, you know, a high school program, the Southeastern Scholars Program. So technically, I've been here since I was 16. Yeah.
Kandace Formaggio:So I like to say for well over half my life, I've been Yep. A Southeastern Lion.
Dr. Amber Narro:I'm a half my lifer my myself. So it's very good to see you. Alright. Talk to me about the Transfer Student Success Center and your sort of new role in it. You've been there about a year and a half or so.
Dr. Amber Narro:Mhmm. Yeah. Tell me about it.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. So the the Transfer Student Success Center here at Southeastern opened its doors officially the 2024. So we kind of restructured, a few things in the College of Honors and Excellence, and we opened our new office. The office is geared mainly to help all of our incoming transfer students who thirty or more credit hours. So when students come in from other colleges, whether that be universities or other community colleges, we both welcome them officially after they get admitted.
Kandace Formaggio:We also help with the onboarding, help with registration, and academic advising in the you know, obviously, their first semester. And then we support them throughout their first year while they're here on our campus.
Dr. Amber Narro:Love that. Candice, the the greatest thing about having you in that situation is that you spent a lot of time in first year success here. And how long were you working with students for their freshman experience?
Kandace Formaggio:So I was in first year success for about eight years before this role, and then actually I was the transfer recruiter in the admissions office for about eight years. So I've done so I kinda went from the admissions side working directly with transfer students to working with first year students and, like, academic advising, and, you know, now kind of getting to flip flop that, go back to transfer, but kind of marry the two the two things
Dr. Amber Narro:I have done. You're forgetting about one of those you're you're forgetting one of those other things, which is the registrar's office. You spent some time Yes.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. Of course. And I was there for a year and a half, and I did, you know, degree and curriculum progression there. And I basically got a chance all the backside. I got all the backside.
Dr. Amber Narro:I had
Kandace Formaggio:a chance to help create and build our new workday system. And so all those things have kind of come come together to kind of Make you the perfect person for this job. To marry this Yeah. New role of, okay, what do transfer students really need? Like, there's a difference in looking at the theory of what they need and then being, like, boots on the ground and working with them and realizing, okay, when they're here, what questions are they asking?
Kandace Formaggio:What direction do they need? What what should we how should we create our processes to match their needs, not create not, you know, create process and hope that they will just kind of
Dr. Amber Narro:fall fall into that. Let's just say let's start this off before we start talking a little bit about how this office came to be and say this is something that was desperately needed at Southeastern Yes. For a long time. Yes. We have always our university started as a community college.
Dr. Amber Narro:We were definitely a we're kinda returning to some of those roots through this effort. Yeah. But also, we needed a place to send people. We have a lot of people because we're a regional. Mhmm.
Dr. Amber Narro:We have a lot of people who try the big schools, maybe even the big purple school down the street. And then we roll out the red carpet. When they're ready to get that TLC, Southeastern Love, and have go back home, maybe they're maybe they're homesick, maybe they miss, you know, their friends and their family, but also maybe if they're wanting that attention and that that that really awesome undergraduate experience that Southeastern is so known for in that, I don't mean just loving up on our students. You know, this isn't any soft place to be. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:This is this is a place where you can come and get a real solid education in your in the in your undergraduate years, have very close ties with the professors who teach here, and do some real real research. And you hear a lot of those stories that it's not just about, you know, coming home. It's about having an individual experience, and that's what we can give here at Southeastern.
Kandace Formaggio:Absolutely. And I'm glad you brought that up that, you know, Southeastern, I think sometimes students may come from other schools thinking that especially if they come from bigger schools, they might think, oh, Southeastern's gonna be, quote, unquote, easier. Well, it's not. Because, I mean, Southeastern's just as rigorous as any other school, obviously. Right?
Kandace Formaggio:But we are providing them a great academic experience that connects with a great student experience on this campus, and they get to know their instructors. Instructors. They're They're not not in in the a classroom of 800 people. You know, they're gonna be 30 to 40 people around them. They get to know the people that they that they're in class with.
Kandace Formaggio:They get to know their their instructors and their professors. They get to have the opportunity to do research or do special projects. Right now, our our miss Southeastern is a is a transfer student.
Dr. Amber Narro:From the Purple School. From the Purple School.
Kandace Formaggio:Our homecoming queen is a transfer student. We have transfer students all around this this campus. We have faculty and staff here who were transfer students.
Dr. Amber Narro:And I have them in the honors program, by the way. And our our miss SLU also is an honor student. Yes. So Absolutely. It's it is definitely not a place that you're coming back most transfers when they come back here, they're coming because they want that individual experience.
Dr. Amber Narro:They do. They're coming because they want to have that contact with their professor. And that, to me, means that we're getting a lot of really rich students, meaning rich it of the mind and rich of wanting the experience of being here. Tell me about some of those questions that they do ask. You mentioned that a few minutes ago, you know, the boots on the ground types of questions that the students ask.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. I mean, if you wanna be very honest, biggest questions that we get are how do my credits transfer?
Dr. Amber Narro:Sure.
Kandace Formaggio:And how quickly can I graduate? And I'm not saying how quickly, like, they're just trying to get in and get in and get out. But
Dr. Amber Narro:traditionally lose the time they put in.
Kandace Formaggio:Traditionally. Exactly. When you transfer from school to school, whether that's been a few transfers or you're a you're a vertical transfer, which means you came from a two year school and then you come up to a four year school, traditionally, there's gonna be loss of credit somewhere. Right? So that's just, you know, all the research that we've done, everything that that we've looked at.
Kandace Formaggio:So our goal is really to try to lessen that loss of credit. So students will typically come in and they're exploring. Some of them know what they wanna major in. Some of them do not know. Some of them are saying, well, at my other school, I majored in this.
Kandace Formaggio:And they just don't know the answers. Like, sometimes I have students come in and say, well, I was majoring in this at my other school, and does that mean I have to major in that, or or is there something else I can do? Like, so they sometimes don't know all the answers, and I think that that's been the problem in the past. People think that because they've done college before that they have all the answers, that they don't need help, that they should be able to come in and hit the ground running and do really well. Well, they've done college before but they haven't done Southeastern before.
Kandace Formaggio:Or they've done a two year school before and they maybe haven't done a four year school before. They still need that extra help. They still need their questions answered. We again have kind of created some of our processes around that to make sure that when they come in that we're spending more time with them on the front end with their academic advising. We're not just saying take these classes, have a great day.
Kandace Formaggio:We're getting to know them, we're talking to them, we're asking, hey, tell me your story, tell me about yourself. Do you work? Are you a parent? Are you in the military? We have such rich backgrounds with our transfer students.
Kandace Formaggio:You know? Some are possibly 20 year olds who went to BRCC and then and then are transferring over, but we have we have parents. We have, again, military. I think over 57 or so of our transfer students this past fall were military students. We had international students.
Kandace Formaggio:We have students in the honors program, just like you said, and we had over 50 athletes as well. So we're working with a lot of different types of transfer students, and they have different needs. So we're trying to figure out, okay, so what how again, how can we create our processes to fit the needs of all these different students, not create some things and hope that that they will just fall fall into that.
Dr. Amber Narro:Absolutely. You mentioned that not only do you have honor students, you have military, you have all sorts of individuals who are doing this. Now is a special time to talk about this. Yeah. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:Absolutely. I had a student last last week, you mentioned honor students, who came in and coming from a big school, you know, came to this area and said, look, I'm that was too much for me. I'm getting lost in the crowd. I want and this was a quote. I want the smaller honors classes.
Dr. Amber Narro:Every smaller honors class that you can give me, that's the one I want. They they're it's gonna allow me to discuss things. Mhmm. It's gonna allow me that experience that I was used to as an honor student when I came from a small high school. Mhmm.
Dr. Amber Narro:This is what I need in this area. I don't want to be in a crowd of people. There's 900 students in my one on one class, and I can't raise my hand and ask a question. I need to be able to do that. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:And I looked her in the eye and said, well, you're gonna get it here. And she just kinda looked at me and said, well, what you know, I don't want any of my classes to be, like, 800 students. I said, there I don't think there's a class on this campus that's 800 students at all. And the second thing is that that's the culture of Southeastern is to care about students. Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:It's not something that we're mandated to do from administration level even though we're expected to do it. Mhmm. It is the culture. It is it is steeped in what you and I told her, that's what you get when you come here. You're gonna it is what we do.
Dr. Amber Narro:It it's what we it's not just on our website. It is what we are. Mhmm. And when people come here who don't subscribe to that, they typically don't last long.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. That's true. It's true. We, again, I know that you I've said I've been here for eighteen years. I think you said you've been here for nineteen years.
Kandace Formaggio:There's a reason why we, as faculty and staff, we we find a place here on campus and then we stay because, you know, we are kind of helping create the culture of that of that caring culture, caring and excellence. You know, that's Southeastern's motto. And and I think that, right, students will come in and some of them, again, just like you said, some of them are coming from bigger schools where they kinda want a more face to face, more intimate experience with their smaller classes, with their instructors. But then we have a lot of students so when we when you look at our our number of transfers, about half of them come from two year schools, and half of them come from four year schools. It's like right down the middle.
Kandace Formaggio:And from the two year schools, we kinda get the opposite. Right? Because they're used to those smaller classes. Right. They're used to getting, you know, really good individual help.
Kandace Formaggio:And so we as a university, we kind of are in a good place that we do offer that as well. It may not be to the degree that a two year school can offer it, but I think it's pretty good. And I think that students are coming from two year schools and having that a similar experience, and they're feeling good about that. And they're choosing Southeastern because of that. Because, again, the ones who want that in that that very individual experience, they're getting that here.
Kandace Formaggio:And I'm not saying you can't get that you can't get that anywhere, but you have to work a little bit harder to get that maybe at a bigger school. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:You have to work harder. Yeah. Let's just say Absolutely. It is what it is. And, Candace, you've done a great job kind of creating that culture in that transfer student success center area as well.
Dr. Amber Narro:If I can brag on you for a minute and embarrass you a little bit, Candace really does have that high touch kind of personality. She sits with people for however long they need her in that role and and schedules those appointments so that students understand that they're not being rushed or put out the door. Yeah. You're very busy this time of the year when people are coming in from from other universities or maybe coming home. And, you know, I mean, there's lots of reasons.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know? Let's talk to the parents out there. It could be that they don't like housing
Kandace Formaggio:on
Dr. Amber Narro:they decided that they don't wanna live on campus, and they don't really wanna live in an apartment yet because they're not ready for that. So these could be young students as well. It's it your transfer students literally range in age from 18 to a 100. Right?
Kandace Formaggio:Right. I mean, yeah. I think our average age of transfer is, like, 23. Uh-huh. So, yeah.
Kandace Formaggio:I mean, if you're looking at who our transfer students are, I mean, they definitely range. I mean, any given day, I'll meet with an 18 or 19 year old. I meet with 24 year olds. I meet with 33 year olds. You know?
Kandace Formaggio:Just yesterday, I met with a 28 year old military student. You know? He was at the base while he's meeting with me virtually. You know? So again and then and those students have, like, different needs too.
Kandace Formaggio:You know? I mean, they as far as, like, when they take their classes, how they take their classes, you know, he could get deployed at any time. So, again, all of our transfers really have a lot of very specific needs.
Dr. Amber Narro:And we're a military friendly school, by the way.
Kandace Formaggio:Very military friendly.
Dr. Amber Narro:Also have a great veterans office. Absolutely. I know this without asking that you and Emily have had conversations.
Kandace Formaggio:We were e we were emailing about that particular student, actually. Yes. And her office is right above right above mine, which is really awesome.
Dr. Amber Narro:So that's Emily Anthony. She is over the Veterans Affairs office here at Southeastern. Services. Yep. And she is unbelievable.
Dr. Amber Narro:She's wonderful.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. In fact, they're having a commissioning sir service right now.
Dr. Amber Narro:As we speak.
Kandace Formaggio:As we speak.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. Indeed. Candice, what are you excited about? What is the future of the Transfer Student Success Center look like as you're you're gauge you know, to be honest, I mean, we've always kinda done things this way and it just hasn't had a place to go. Right.
Dr. Amber Narro:And now the students have a place to go. We're a lot more organized. This definitely came out of our accreditation Yes. Plan, our quality enhancement plan. Mhmm.
Dr. Amber Narro:But it has been so powerful for the university to start seeing these numbers, to know that our transfer students, it's the ages 23, to know how many are coming in as military. Those are strong statements that we can say for the university and back that high touch, high care Mhmm. Kind of culture that we have. What do you see as the future now?
Kandace Formaggio:So some things we kinda have that we're working on, which I can't talk about everything because some things obviously are secret, but some things that we
Dr. Amber Narro:Gotta be approved and gotta go all the way through the thing. Correct.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. Can't talk about everything. But some things that we are working on, and a a big project is maximizing transfer credit for students. And again, that is something that I from you know, when when I was 22 years old working in the the admissions office, and I could see how hard it was when students would come in and they would lose credit, you know? Mhmm.
Kandace Formaggio:And so I think that we're in a position now where we can do some more transformational things with transfer credit just because courses don't directly transfer or might not be equivalent. And again, that's very common. Right? Even here in the state. I mean, we have a pretty pretty good border regions matrix where students could look and see what transfers, but not every school offers the same exact thing, and that's okay.
Kandace Formaggio:Right?
Dr. Amber Narro:Did you know that I sat on that work I sat on a little committee for that way back in, like, 2007, February, very early on. Yeah. I sat on that. I was I was part of that little matrix development. I can't remember if they called it committee or a task force, group of people sitting around a table, whatever you wanna call it, I was part of that.
Dr. Amber Narro:I remember the big spreadsheet and being super overwhelmed as a young professor going, oh, what am I supposed to do with that? But part of that conversation was communication, obviously, making sure that we had some equivalencies around that.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. Very helpful. So we are but we're doing some was a
Dr. Amber Narro:great learning experience for me. Yeah. Great thing to do as a young professor, for sure.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. And not everyone realizes that we have those things out there that that, you know but what I will say, who do who does know is the community college students because I get community college students almost every day who reach out and say, hey, I wanna make sure that my classes transfer. Can you look at my courses from River Parishes Community College? I'm an education major. Can you make sure that they're gonna transfer?
Kandace Formaggio:Just last night, I did an evaluation for a a prospective student to make sure that everything would transfer, and I kinda sent her everything. But we are doing some things. We're creating some some things right now, a big big project to make sure that the transfer credit is kind of getting transferred a little bit more seamlessly over. Uh-huh. So that's a huge huge huge project, and that's gonna affect transfer students from everywhere.
Kandace Formaggio:So I'm really excited about that. We're gonna be doing some more programming in our office. We're gonna be working with transfer students to create academic maps and academic plans. So we have those planned for the spring semester. And what that's gonna do is help students be able to plan out what they're taking every semester from the second they come on our campus until graduation.
Dr. Amber Narro:I gotta imagine that those efforts are gonna help with things that are just for our traditional students as well, like course elsewhere or bringing in dual enrollment credit, you know, things like that.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. Yeah. So a lot of our first year students in their first year success class, they actually do a lot of these activities already. They they kinda go in and they they decide, okay, what am I taking every semester? So we're gonna be doing a lot of that with our transfer students as well, implementing that.
Kandace Formaggio:And that's part of our core
Dr. Amber Narro:Degree planning.
Kandace Formaggio:System planner. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:Mhmm.
Kandace Formaggio:Yeah. Degree planning. Which some of and again, I think people assume that transfer students know how to do all these things on their own because they've been to college before, but they haven't been to college here. So they don't know the southeastern way. They don't know always understand how to use all of our our software and our, you know, ERP systems and things.
Kandace Formaggio:So we're gonna be having some more, you know, webinars and some more kind of face to face meetings in the spring to help our students learn that.
Dr. Amber Narro:I appreciate that you said that because Southeastern is a different experience, and I am talking facts here. I am not talking just because I love this university, and I do. Alright? But facts are that a lot of students come here from other bigger universities and they don't know that they can ask, Correct. You know, and that we will help them.
Kandace Formaggio:Yes.
Dr. Amber Narro:Because they're not used to it. Yep. They're just absolutely not used to having that experience. And I I literally had to look the girl in the eye last week and go, it is different here.
Kandace Formaggio:Yes.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know, you can ask and nobody's gonna think that you're stupid or tell you that they don't have time or that that's not their area. They're gonna find the answer for you. Yes. If we're gonna point you to the resources, that is not and it's not about, you know, finding the answer to the question on the test. It's about finding where the bookstore is so that they can get their book.
Kandace Formaggio:I'm glad you said that.
Dr. Amber Narro:You know?
Kandace Formaggio:I'm glad you said that. That is, like, the big so in addition to helping students with transfer credit and the academic advising portion, a big part of what our office does is helps connect our transfer students to resources on our campus. So that is a big thing that we do. We send out monthly emails to our transfer students. We make sure they kind of understand where the, you know, where the Tinsley Learning Center is, where the bookstore is, where the counseling center is, how they can utilize the health center.
Kandace Formaggio:So we do all that, but then we also, through the orientation, we go through a lot of that as well. This is the first time we've ever done a true, we partner with with the admissions office and we host, like, a transfer orientation portion of the orientation. So we work with those 30 plus transfer students. When I say 30 plus, I mean transfer students who are coming in with 30 or more or more credits.
Dr. Amber Narro:That's not age.
Kandace Formaggio:Correct. For sophomore right. Sophomores are higher, essentially. So in the past, they haven't really had the opportunity to go to an orientation program because, again, people assume that they already knew how to do everything. Well, we had over 256 transfer students come to orientation this past year.
Kandace Formaggio:So over half of our transfer population came to orientation. Like, they wanted the orientation experience, and and I think that's that means a lot.
Dr. Amber Narro:I think that is a true testament to these individuals' investment in their own educations. Right? These students are not required to come. Correct. With over thirty hours, if you're a sophomore or above, you're not required to come to orientation.
Dr. Amber Narro:But that is a true sign of the maturity level and the and the investment that these students have in their own education and making sure that they're gonna get the information that they need.
Kandace Formaggio:Absolutely. They want a tour. Like, I get students ask me almost every day, how can I take a tour? And and will tell them, well, you're gonna be able to do some of that at the orientation. Right?
Kandace Formaggio:But they're like, how can I take a tour? How can I find where my classes are? How can I find this? Like, they have a lot of the same questions that a first year student is gonna So we've really, you know, made sure that we're offering those those services.
Dr. Amber Narro:So but for just honestly here. Mhmm. But for the Transfer Student Success Center, do you think that they would have gone through orientation at that number?
Kandace Formaggio:No. No. Because we weren't inviting them before that. Or we were inviting them but maybe we weren't we weren't pushing it the same way. You
Dr. Amber Narro:know? What you've done, just just so that we're very specific on this, you have a very tailored orientation for these individuals. You know? It's not the orientation that the traditional freshman goes through where they're trying to find the sorority or trying to find the club or the organization.
Kandace Formaggio:And some of them do. Some of them do want that same experience.
Dr. Amber Narro:Thank you.
Kandace Formaggio:Some of them do. Absolutely. So they do get a little bit of both. So we don't have it totally, you know, broken out to where they're not getting the same the same experience. They still get the kind of
Dr. Amber Narro:same So they come on the same day that the other people come?
Kandace Formaggio:Yes. They come on the same day. Okay. And they still get to, you know, hear from our wonderful president in the welcome session. They still get to go to those breakout sessions if they want and go learn about living on campus or go learn about getting meal plans or getting getting involved.
Dr. Amber Narro:So they can include themselves wherever they need to.
Kandace Formaggio:But we have, like, a separate transfer path for them. So it's almost like transfer track on that day as well. And we talk about, like, transfer specific things. We make sure that they kind of understand. And the good thing about that meeting is we get to, like, talk to every single one of them.
Kandace Formaggio:And we get to kind of be like, okay. Let's check everything off your list. Do you have your your, you know, vehicle registered? Okay. Yes or no?
Kandace Formaggio:Awesome. Do you have this? You're gonna get your books today. You're gonna you know, so I always tell students that it's like a one stop shop day for for them. So if they want a good, like you know, not holding your hand, obviously, because we're not holding everybody's hand, but if they want a day where they can come to campus and get literally one stop shop, get everything done in one day, that's kind
Dr. Amber Narro:of sometimes what that orientation is gonna be for for them. And, again, we'll make sure that they're checking everything off their their list. Excellent. Candice, when you are thinking about our transfer student population here at Southeastern, and I I know even already because they some come with lots and lots of hours and just minutes from graduation that you've already seen them graduate at this at from the university. Yeah.
Dr. Amber Narro:Has been the feedback that they've given you about this center and this this opportunity to really kinda do it as a collective area?
Kandace Formaggio:So we haven't had that many so again, we've only been a center for about a a year and a half. So we haven't had that many transfer I mean, I'm sorry, that many graduate yet. A lot of the again,
Dr. Amber Narro:most Who were of part of the transfer center? Correct. Of course, we
Kandace Formaggio:were part of the transfer center.
Dr. Amber Narro:Had lots of Right. Lots of transfer students graduate before.
Kandace Formaggio:Graduate. Obviously. Yes. So, yeah, I haven't gotten a lot of feedback from, like, alumni yet, but what I have heard from students who who are still maybe on campus or getting close to graduation, there are some who come see us weekly. You know?
Kandace Formaggio:There are some who know that, like, we are their we are their go to, and we are located right there in the student union. The student union, like, breeze breezeway, so it's really easy to find us. And they come they come in, and they they they'll come stay for an hour, and they ask questions, and they kinda sit sit with us and they hang out, and we have waters. If they if they they want a water, they we we have snacks. But we're kind of sometimes for them, they're just their place, you know, their place that they know that they can come and just kinda hang out a little bit and, you know, get get what they need, you know, and they know that we have whatever answer they have.
Kandace Formaggio:So even even though we're not answering answering every single thing in the center, we're connecting them with those resources that that they need.
Dr. Amber Narro:Indeed. And back with their departments as well.
Kandace Formaggio:And back with their departments. Yep.
Dr. Amber Narro:Absolutely. That's a very important part of this that we didn't dive into a whole lot today. But they we immediately they don't just come to transfer center school. Right? They come to their departments.
Dr. Amber Narro:You hook them up with an adviser there. You're Yeah. The perfect person to be building relationships in those departments to make sure they're going to the person that they need to go to. Mhmm. And we have them all over campus.
Dr. Amber Narro:Again, that's the culture here. We we wanna take care of our students who come, and we we definitely started as a school that that helped people who were in their community college time, and and we certainly wanna help those individuals who are moving here after they're finished with their community college. So thank you, Candace, for coming to talk to us about the new transfer transfer student success center here at Southeastern. And I look forward to talking to you in the future, probably around this time every year to to let students know what they can experience when they come here and let parents know where they need to get in touch so that they can get more information.
Kandace Formaggio:And
Dr. Amber Narro:And where is that?
Kandace Formaggio:And so I will say the application deadline for the spring semester is coming up December 15.
Dr. Amber Narro:Okay.
Kandace Formaggio:So if you are at another school and you're thinking, you know what? Maybe Southeastern is for me, go ahead and apply. Go to southeastern.edu. Click on the application button at the top, and you are a transfer student. So go ahead, definitely apply.
Kandace Formaggio:But you can always reach our transfer student success center by email or by phone. So our phone number is (985) 549-3512, or you could email us at transfersuccess@southeastern.edu.
Dr. Amber Narro:Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate you. This is Kandace Formaggio. She is the director of the transfer student success center here at Southeastern. We've been talking about how you can become a successful transfer student.
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