Poster - #VH-32759 - Keywords: Higher Education, Inertia, Structural Hole, Transfer Advising, Institutional Change, Academic Advising

INSTITUTIONAL INERTIA: STRENGTHENING TRANSFER STUDENT ADVISING

Ella M. Crawford & Sarah Goulart
University of California, Berkeley

ABSTRACT:
Our poster provides a theoretical framework for researchers to explore, and for practitioners to improve, long standing transfer student advising practices. We are combining two theories to provide a framework: institutional inertia and structural hole theory. Institutional inertia allows us to address long-term practices that are slow and hard to change. While structural hole theory addresses the relationship–specifically the gap–between 2-year and 4-year institutions that students experience.