The Teaching Transfer Initiative 

The Teaching Transfer Initiative is an academic outreach pilot program led by the Office of the Provost and managed by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University. Designed to encourage community college students to explore and transfer to four-year institutions, the program will invest in the community college sector by expanding Princeton’s teaching and advising capacity outward. The program is currently hiring an initial cohort of visiting faculty fellows. To learn more, please visit the Teaching Transfer Initiative website. 

Aspiring Scholars and Professionals

Aspiring Scholars and Professionals (ASAP) is a cohort program at Princeton’s Emma Bloomberg Center for Access & Opportunity, designed to introduce undergraduates from other New Jersey colleges and universities to higher education careers in the humanities and qualitative social sciences. The program begins with an eight-week summer institute on the campus of Princeton University. During that time, students participate in professional development and research methods workshops, and are paired with a Princeton faculty or staff member for a research or professional internship. Unlike with other summer internship programs, ASAP interns have the opportunity to continue their work at Princeton into their fall semester. To learn more, please visit the Aspiring Scholars and Professionals website.

Alumni Opportunities

Alumni of the Transfer Scholars Initiative are welcome to apply for positions as WRI 100 Course Fellows and Quant Lab Course Fellows in the following summers. These positions include a dorm and three meals a day for the duration of the TSI program. See the EBCAO Undergraduate Job Opportunities page for more information.

Princeton University Transfer Program 

The Transfer Scholars Initiative is wholly separate from Princeton’s undergraduate transfer program. Transfer Scholars are welcome to apply to transfer to Princeton so long as they meet the eligibility criteria. But it is not the goal of TSI to be a pipeline to Princeton specifically. TSI’s coursework and transfer success programming are instead designed to elevate students’ prospects for applying successfully to a wide range of selective schools, and provide tools of discernment for students to determine what schools will be the best fit for them.