ABOUT US
Pilipino Transfer Student Partnership aims to ease the transition of transfer students to life at UCLA and providing a space for student support during their Bruin lives. We seek to raise awareness about cultural and academic issues regarding the transfer experience by advocating the needs of transfer students and encouraging leadership, community responsibility, and accessibility to higher education through academic services and community building.
MISSION AND VISION STATEMENT
MISSION STATEMENT
PTSP’s mission is to establish a community of Pilipinx transfers and allies that eases the transition to UCLA by offering resources, cultural growth, and collaborative initiatives with UCLA organizations and community stakeholders.
VISION STATEMENT
PTSP’s vision is to holistically develop Pilipinx identifying transfer students and allies by actively addressing transfer issues and fostering transfer empowerment across all spaces within their time at UCLA and beyond. As an organization that serves various marginalized identities, we do not take our existence for granted and we will uphold that standard with present and future relationships.
HISTORY OF PTSP
In 1995, graduate student Allyson Tintiangco Cubales and Samahang Pilipino Education and Retention (SPEAR) Project Director Dawn Mabalon began a dialogue on their transfer student experiences as undergraduates. They realized that many transfers students within Samahang Pilipino, the main Pilipino organization on campus, experienced loneliness and alienation. Allyson and Dawn also realized that the transfer rates to UCLA were incredibly low, and began to talk about ways they could change these issues. In the fall of 1995, Allyson and Dawn co-taught a class that focused on researching Pilipino transfer issues as a part of Allyson's dissertation: the students within this first class then created PTSP- the beginnings of the organization we see today. In 1996, PTSP became an independent UCLA student organization founded on the 3 R's: Retention, Recruitment, and Research.