On Wednesday, June 5th as part of the Transfer Resource Council (TRC) colleagues and I attended a wonderful presentation by the staff of St Mary's College of Maryland, https://www.smcm.edu/. The staff was very welcoming and helpful. We were informed that the Maryland Student Financial Aid Application (MSFAA) can be used by undocumented students to be considered for financial aid and scholarships. In addition, St Mary's College of Maryland along with Morgan State University are the only two institutions in Maryland which offer the Thedream.us scholarship, https://www.thedream.us/about/our-partner-colleges/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9jHMiQ0diE
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TheDream.US Scholar, Marisela, relies on DACA to Work as
Teacher Marisela, a graduate
TheDream.US Scholar now working as a teacher, is one of the 16,000
DACA-recipients who work in education. As she notes in the video, “I would
tell the Supreme Court to let me do my job. I love my job. I love my
students. I love my school. I love my community. DACA has benefited the US
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQqFHru79B4
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In the past I had 4
winners of Thedream.us from high school to Trinity Washington University and
the scholarship provides 50% of tuition and the university the rest. St Mary's
College of Maryland's financial aid staff shared that with the scholarship students
pay about $1,000 per semester. This information can be useful to our dual
enrollment, early college students as well as our students who will transfer.
Here is
additional information which was shared:
Reverse Transfer: We are working to expand our support for
Reverse Transfer here at SMCM. This week, we sent an email to all our incoming
Spring 2024 transfer students who were identified as potentially being eligible
for Reverse Transfer an invitation to fill out a form to participate in the
program so we could send out a free SMCM transcript on their behalf. As well,
we have built systems into our process for the entering Fall 2024 students to
track both incoming transfer and first years who completed dual enrollment but
did not earn an Associate's degree so we can encourage Reverse Transfer. (But
we are encouraging completion of the Associate's degree before transferring as
the first priority!)
DREAM.US: We are proud to be one of two Maryland colleges to partner
with DREAM.US to
provide undocumented students access to resources to make college affordable.
The 2024 scholarship cycle has closed, but I will let you know when the cycle
opens for the 2025-2026 school year (the application will probably be due in
January/February 2025). If you have any ideas on how to get word out about this
opportunity, definitely let me know!
Transfer Students: As you are working with students who have
questions about SMCM, feel free to refer them to me and myself or one of our
staff members will be able to assist them!
Transfer Course
Equivalencies: One item I did not
mention yesterday is we have launched the TES tool to allow
students to see how courses transfer into SMCM! This is a great tool for both
transfer students and dual enrollment students to see how courses will
transfer. We did go ahead and program all of the general education
equivalencies into TES since those are standard transfer equivalencies based on
COMAR. We have been working with our faculty to try to get ahead on course
evaluations for MC, but if there are any courses you would like to have
evaluated that you do not see (or you only see the gen ed equivalency), email transfer@smcm.edu and
we will get the course evaluated and added to TES.
An amazing contact you
may reach out to or connect students with is:
Jacqui Rogers-Frere
Director of Transfer
Recruitment, Admission, and Services
St. Mary's College of Maryland
18952 E. Fisher Road
St. Mary's City, MD 20686
jgrogers@smcm.edu
José
Medrano
Counselor/Professor
Men
Empowering Network M.E.N. (Mentor)
Email, best way to reach me: jose.medrano@montgomerycollege.edu
Link to schedule an appointment with me: https://montgomerycollege.starfishsolutions.com/starfish-ops/dl/instructor/serviceCatalog.html?bookmark=connection/1673256/schedule
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