The concerns of community college students seeking to transfer to the University of California will receive special attention when guidance counselors visit UC Davis Friday, Sept. 17, to learn the latest about admission to the university. About 300 counselors from community colleges are expected to be among the more than 1,000 guidance counselors attending the UC Counselor Conference, one of five such events at UC campuses today through Tuesday, Sept. 21. For the first time, the conferences will offer separate conference tracks so representatives of the nine UC campuses can better address questions regarding transfer between community college and the university. The offering of the two tracks reflects the university system's added attention to transfer issues since it agreed to increase its enrollment of California community college students by 33 percent between 1995-96 and 2005-06. New initiatives at UC Davis include workshops for university and community college faculty members to discuss curriculum issues, direct recruitment of prospective transfer students and video conferences with admissions advisers over the Web. The conference sessions for the high-school and college counselors will include information on financing higher education, advice on completing a UC application, guidelines for writing an effective personal statement and its role in admissions decisions, and an explanation of how student records are evaluated. Another session will explain how UC certifies high-school courses satisfying the "a-f" requirement. The conference begins at 8:30 a.m. in Freeborn Hall, and sessions also will be held until 3:30 p.m. in five adjacent buildings.