A new transfer program will be brought to California community college students to aid them with their transition to a 4-year university.

According to Cherie Colin, director of marketing, communications, and public relations at Skyline College, the “proposed infrastructure” has been established to assist students with following their progression towards transfer.

Colin believes that the success of the system would flourish if it is “done well and with strong education and support from the Transfer Center and counselors.” Although she has no doubt that it will make meeting requirements much easier, she thinks it’s too soon to tell.

“My understanding is that the proposal is not to change the system, but to provide better tools for community college students to navigate the system,” wrote Colin via email.

Colin understands that students will have to be made aware of such a system through different methods. There are still a lot of minor details that students should be made aware of therefore students shouldn’t over-rely on the program. They should still work with counselors as well.

“There is great potential for students to benefit from knowing which classes they need for which campus and major and tracking progress towards that,” wrote Colin via email.

Colin goes on to say that although students would find ease with this system, they must keep in mind that every campus and major may have different requirements and therefore may prolong a student’s stay at their community college.

Skyline students are seeing the positive in this system and its convenience to their path to transfer.

“Anything that would help would be good for anybody,” said Christian Lozano, a Skyline student. “I’m not really good at keeping track of what I need, so any system that will help me keep track of what I need to do would help.”

“I think it will be pretty helpful, but I think there’s already another website that’s similar, Assist.com,” said Skyline student, Doriss Tironag.