Introduction to this quarter's edition by Megan McConnell, Editor
Welcome to UW's Transfer eNewsletter. Whether this is your first time reading, or whether you've followed us for years, we're glad to have you.
This publication is intended for prospective transfer students to the UW, as well as for the advisers who advise them. If you subscribe to it, we will continue to send it to you until you tell us not to. We also send it out to the UW Seattle Admissions office's list of prospective transfer students, which they assemble from those little cards we have you fill out when we visit your college or when you attend Transfer Thursday. Finally, it goes out on two advising listservs—one for UW advisers and one for Washington state community college and UW advisers, and when we send it out on those we ask that advisers forward it on to students who will be interested. If you know of other distribution methods we should be thinking about, please drop me a line about it at dahlface@u.washington.edu.
Our goal in publishing, which we do three times each year, is to provide prospective students with degree and program updates, helpful information regarding the admissions process, and advice about planning to transfer. We sometimes include articles that are primarily of interest to advisers at the state's community colleges, like this issue's brief introduction of Namura Nkeze, Transfer and Commuter Programs Coordinator.
In this issue, highlights include an important change in the Economics department admissions process as well as the decision to add three years of high school foreign language as one of the ways in which students in the Colleges of Arts & Sciences, Education, and Social Welfare can meet the foreign language proficiency graduation requirement. One of the things I always try to do in assembling our story list is to include student voices, so you can listen to ASUW Senator Chris Paredes talk about a new transfer club he is helping to start on campus, or you can read an article by former transfer student Crystal Chiechi about the fantastic Undergraduate Research Symposium we hosted a few weeks ago. International students would be well advised to read Leana de la Torre's piece on the services provided by the Office of International Students and Scholars, since they differ significantly from similar offices at the community college level. There's all this, and more. I do hope you'll enjoy it!
