Transfer Experience

Mission:

The goal of the Transfer Year Experience LLC is to empower residents to experience what makes Gonzaga University unique and to explore all that Gonzaga has to offer. Students will integrate themselves more fully and quickly into the campus community.

Fast Facts:

The Transfer Year Experience LLC is a residential community that brings together students who arrive at Gonzaga University with valuable previous college and life experiences.  In this program, transfer students live together in an intentional, reflective and collaborative environment. Participants will benefit from exposure to a wide range of campus resources, connections with faculty and staff, programs and events focused on continued student development, and success and a built-in peer network. The program helps students translate their previous college experiences into academic and community engagement success at Gonzaga.

The program is available to any transfer student who has earned academic credit at a college or university in the time between high school and enrolling at Gonzaga University.  Students from all majors and schools are encouraged to apply for this residential community. Strong candidates will demonstrate an interest in building academic and social connections with their transfer peers and a desire to become active members of Kennedy Apartment community.

• Suite-Style Living in Mantua Hall
• Open to New Transfer Students with a Live-On Requirement

Values and Learning Outcomes:

1. Build Inclusive Community: Build inclusive communities and professional networks that promote equity, diversity, and belonging by fostering meaningful relationships with peers, faculty, and industry professionals.
2. Identify Purposeful Pathways: Explore personal, academic, and career pathways by identifying goals, reflecting on values, and developing action plans that support lifelong learning and purposeful engagement.
3. Cultivate Capacity: Cultivate leadership, creativity, and critical thinking skills to contribute meaningfully to the Gonzaga and greater Spokane communities.
4. Reflect Critically: Develop and utilize critical reflection skills to integrate past collegiate experiences with the current academic environment to enable success at the new alma mater. 
5. Formulate Goals: Establish new goals that can be incorporated into daily, weekly, monthly and yearly life. Utilize on-campus resources that enable one to surpass established goals.
6. Establish Zag Identity: Explore and capitalize on personal and academic passions to shape one's unique Gonzaga experience and identity.