加州社区大学的学生想要获得加州大学10种热门专业之一的学历，包括了从经济学到细胞生物学等,现在会知道明确的转学要求，并在进校后按部就班，两年后获得毕业证书。

7月7日，加州大学官方公布了转学路径，他们划出了一系列课程。学生们只需要主修专业对应的那套课程，就可以报转加州大学任意一所本科生分校（共9所）的相应专业。

加州大学总校校长珍妮特·纳波利塔诺在萨克拉门托城市学院戴维斯中心（第一所坐落于加州大学校园里的社区大学）的新闻发布会上宣读了这份由加州大学老师拟定的转学路径。出席这次发布会的还有加州大学和社区大学领导，民选官员和公立高等教育拥护者。

加州大学的本科生中近30%的学生都是从社区大学升上大学的，这个比例是国内顶级大学中最高的。然而，转学过程复杂、麻烦，这势必会让一部分符合条件的学生放弃追求去加州大学学习的机会。

纳波利塔诺说：“这个路径的目标就是创建一个简单、直接的过程，借此使加州112所社区学院的学生转入加州大学更加简单。”

她说：“这些路径并不代表我们工作的结束，恰恰相反，它为我们接下来的工作奠定了重要的基础。”

那些按照推荐修完课程的学生能够申请加州大学系统下的9所本科生院校，同时在录取后，学生就能攻克我们严苛的高级课程，纳波利塔诺如此说道。

新的路径也避免了学生将时间和金钱花在不必要的课程上，加州社区大学主席布赖斯·哈里斯说。让转学变得更加简洁、透明，他说，“这举动打破了认知的束缚，特别是为那些认为进入加州大学读书只是遥远的梦的贫困生。”

帮助学生竞争入学资格

鉴于加州大学招生的竞争特性，辅导员和学术顾问通常建议学生同时申请加州大学的多所分校。但是，学生发现不同的学校对同一个专业的要求却有所不同。转学路径为每个专业都设计了一套满足所有分校对这个专业的要求的课程。

 “如果你就只申请了一所钟爱的学校，却没能录取，你该怎么办？”即将于秋季就读戴维斯分校的通讯专业的萨克拉门托城市学院转学生MeemMohsin说。“新路径这时就显得尤其重要了。”

从萨克拉门托城市学院升到加州大学戴维斯分校的Tammi Driver现在是社区大学的一名顾问，她也对这个消息激动不已。

Driver说“我每天都和那些想要成功转学的学生谈话。”很多学生都不畏吃苦，但是哪些课程能满足转学要求总是让他们困惑不已。“选择实在是太多了，课程数量大的惊人！”

作为第一批想要转入加州大学的学生，Driver本欲修数学，但为了及时毕业，最终转修艺术专业。她说，有了学术路线图，她就能主攻她的社区大学课程，让更多课程可以算入专业学分。

她说：“它将指导你正确地朝着你的目标前行。”

新路径包括10个最热门专业，而今年又将增加额外的11种专业。新路径首次提供21种专业，满足三分之二想要升入加州大学学生的选择。

这个新网站会展示每个转学路径的详细信息，以及提供帮助学生计划和准备转学的信息和资源。

教师们倾尽全力的努力

纳波利塔诺发起改善转学程序的行动，这是她自2013年秋季出任加州大学十所分校总校长后的首要行动之一。她成立了转学行动研讨小组，寻找更好地服务学生的方法，与全州多个社区大学的领导人见面会谈。这一切都指向为申请加州大学各分校同一专业的学生创建一个统一的推荐课程体系。

纳波利塔诺说：“我们正采取行动，并且干劲十足”

为了制定出转学路线，加州大学教师和学术领导在过去的数月时间里整理和细化出各种要求。这些要求解说了每个分校对各个专业的关注重点。

纳波利塔诺说：“让加州大学所有校区都同意一个统一的转学标准，来评判转入的学生能真正准备好成为大三学生并成功毕业，这面对的问题相当复杂，教师和学术评议会功不可没。”

加州大学学术评议会主席玛丽·吉莉说：“这些路径在不降低学术标准的同时，制定出更加透明的课程要求，更好地满足学生的需求。”

 “一个统一的转学路径可能吸引那些没考虑上加州大学的睿智、优秀的学生，” 洛里奥斯社区大学学区执行副主席Mitchel Benson说，“这是一个明智之举。”

这个转学路径不仅满足学生的要求，而且也是对加州劳动力要求的回应。

这个首套包含多个科学学科的转学路径可能鼓励更多的学生主修那些专业，追求加州大学的教育机会，在这儿，他们可以和这些领域里世界闻名的领军人共事，Benson如此说道。

“在这里，谨代表加州大学明确地表达，我们想要为更多的社区大学学生大开知识之门。”

California Community College students seeking to earn a UC degree in 10 popular majors, from economics to cell biology, now will have a clear academic roadmap to prepare for admission at any UC campus and be well-positioned to graduate within two years.

University of California officials on July 7 unveiled Transfer Pathways, which provide a single set of courses students can take to prepare for admission in a given major across any of UC’s nine undergraduate campuses.

UC President Janet Napolitano announced the pathways, created by UC faculty, at a press conference at Sacramento City College’s Davis Center, the first community college facility housed on a UC campus. She was joined at the event by UC and community college leaders, elected officials and advocates for public higher education.

Roughly 30 percent of UC undergraduates begin their education at community college, a rate unmatched by any other top-tier university in the country. The transfer process, however, is one that some students find complex and cumbersome, and could discourage otherwise qualified students from pursuing a UC education.

The pathways are a major step toward creating a simple, straightforward process that streamlines transfer to UC from California’s 112 community colleges, Napolitano said.

“These pathways don’t represent the end of our work, but they are a significant step in our ongoing efforts,” she said.

Students who follow the recommended courses will be well-positioned to apply to any of UC’s nine undergraduate campuses, and to successfully tackle rigorous, upper division coursework once they are enrolled, Napolitano said.

The new pathways also will help students save time and money by avoiding unneeded courses, said California Community College Chancellor Brice Harris. Making the transfer process clear and transparent, he said, “breaks down the perception — especially for students from disadvantaged families — that UC is not a possibility for their future.”

Helping students compete for admission

Given the competitive nature of admission to UC, counselors and academic advisors recommend students apply to more than one UC campus. But students have encountered differing course requirements among campus for similar majors. The Transfer Pathways provide a single set of courses for each major that meet the requirements at all nine undergraduate campuses.

“If you’re geared toward one school and don’t get in, what do you do?” said Sacramento City College transfer Meem Mohsin, who will start UC Davis in the fall with a major in communications. “This is important for keeping your options open.”

Tammi Driver, a UC Davis graduate who transferred from Sacramento City College and now works as an adviser at the community college, was among those who enthusiastically greeted the news.

“I talk to students daily who say they want to make it to some goal,” said Driver. Many students are willing to work hard, but don’t know which courses to take to meet their educational goals. “There is such a variety of options, the number of courses can be overwhelming.”

A first-generation college student who had long set her sights on UC, Driver had hoped to major in math, but ultimately shifted to art in order to graduate in a timely manner. Having an academic roadmap, she said, would have helped her focus her community college coursework so that more of it counted toward her desired degree.

“This offers a lot of guidance for getting you right where you want to go,” she said.

The new pathways cover coursework for 10 of the most popular majors; another 11 disciplines will be added later this year. Collectively, the first 21 Transfer Pathways cover the majors chosen by two-thirds of students seeking transfer to UC.

A new website gives students details for each transfer path, and provides them with other information and resources to help them plan and prepare.

A 'rocket-fueled' faculty effort

Napolitano launched an initiative to improve the transfer process as one of her first acts after assuming leadership of the 10-campus UC system in fall 2013. She created a Transfer Action Team to find ways to better serve transfer students, and met with dozens of community college leaders across the state. Both efforts pointed to the need to create a unified set of recommended courses to prepare students pursuing a given major for admission to multiple UC campuses.

“We took what was already underway and we put rocket fuel into it,” Napolitano said.

To arrive at the Transfer Pathways, UC campus faculty and academic leaders worked over the past several months to align and streamline requirements that would account for differing focuses and emphases among majors on each campus.

“To get all of our UC campuses to agree on what should be required so that students can enter truly prepared to enter the university as juniors and graduate on time involved a lot of moving parts and hard work [by] the faculty and Academic Senate,” Napolitano said.

"These pathways will allow us to better meet students' needs by making course expectations more transparent while maintaining high academic standards," said UC Academic Senate chair Mary Gilly.

A streamlined system for transfer will draw bright, talented students who might not have otherwise considered UC, said Mitchel Benson, an associate vice chancellor at Los Rios Community College District.  “This is a smart way to implement it," he said.

The pathways respond not only to students’ needs, but to California workforce demands.

The first set of pathways include many disciplines in the sciences, which might encourage more students to pursue those majors — and to pursue a UC education, where they can work alongside the most world-renowned leaders in the field, Benson said.

“This is a clear statement on the part of UC, that we want to open doors to community college students even wider.”