This guide translates research into practical advice on attracting, retaining, and guiding transfer students. Various chapters address multiple strategies for orientation and advising; curricular issues involving transfer students; how to maximize the effectiveness of articulation agreements; preparing community college students for transfer; non-traditional students as transfers; and how to develop support from alumni who started as transfer students. Chapters in this book include: (1) Today's Transfer Students: Trends and Challenges (Bonita C. Jacobs); (2) Research on the Community College Transfer Issue: An Adequate Indicator of Practice Issues? (Thomas D. Steinmann, Myron L. Pope, and Michael T. Miller); (3) Enrollment Management Issues (Kenneth W. Borland, Jr.); (4) Strategies for Successful Transfer Orientation Programs (Jeanine Ward-Roof and Tony Cawthon); (5) Critical Issues in Advising Transfer Students: Student Retention Begins Before Matriculation (Lynne Williams Bell); (6) Articulation to Collaboration (Brenda L. Sullivan, Beverly G. Dyer, and Kathy K. Franklin); (7) Transfer and Articulation: Survey of State Practices (Barbara Lauren); (8) Articulation Agreements that Foster a Transfer Mentality (Debra A. Gutierrez); (9) Preparing Community College Students for Transfer (Kathrine B. Swanson and Norma Jones-Johnson); (10) Preparing Transfer Students to Succeed: Strategies and Best Practices (Myron L. Pope); (11) Non-Traditional Students as Transfers (Brent D. Cejda); (12) Securing Future Alumni Support: Understanding the Transfer Student (David B. Johnson and Cheryl Altmara); and (13) Transfer Trends in the Future of Higher Education (Michael T. Miller and Daniel P. Nadler). Appended are: (1) State Transfer and Articulation Websites; and (2) Joint Statement on the Transfer and Award of Credit (2001) from the following: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers; American Council on Education; and Council for Higher Education Accreditation.