Author: Michelle Marie KokerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A Predictive Model of Bachelor's Degree Completion for Transfer Students at an Urban, Research I University
Author: Michelle Marie KokerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Transforming Students' Lives
Author: Janet E. LiebermanPublisher: Stylus Publishing (VA)
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The story of the Exploring Transfer project, a 12-year collaboration between Vassar College and LaGuardia and six other community colleges that has resulted in student transfer and graduation rates three times higher than the national average. Describes the strategies that make it a success, and demonstrates how other institutions can adapt it.
Building Transfer Student Pathways for College and Career Success
Author: Sonya JosephPublisher: The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience
ISBN: 1942072260
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Published in partnership with the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students. Analysis of bachelor’s degree completion suggests that only about a third of college graduates attend a single institution from start to finish. More than one quarter earn college credits from three or more schools before completing a degree. For most, these student-defined pathways lead to increased time-to-degree and higher costs. Many will simply drop out long before crossing the finish line. Ensuring college completion and success requires an understanding of the evolving nature of transfer transitions and a system-wide approach that reaches beyond two-year and four-year institutions to include high schools participating in dual enrollment programs and military college initiatives. A new edited collection offers insight into institutional and statewide partnerships that create clearly defined pathways to college graduation and career success for all students.
From Junior to Senior College
Author: Dorothy M. KnoellPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Transition and Transformation
Author: Stephen HandelPublisher: University of North Georgia
ISBN: 9781940771250
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The transfer function is well positioned to address a number of compelling problems facing higher education in America. Transfer serves families by providing an affordable avenue to higher education while minimizing the impact of crippling loan debt. It serves the public at large by leveraging scarce state resources over the long-term. And it provides a path to higher education for students who might not otherwise have access to it. However, none of these outcomes will be realized unless we improve the transfer process. Although community colleges can and do provide a more affordable avenue to the baccalaureate, the transfer process has remained convoluted, complicated, and complex. Our most vulnerable students begin their postsecondary education at a community college, yet these students are often the least equipped to navigate the frequently choppy waters of transfer in the middle of their undergraduate career. The three broad categories of this book address some of the most pressing issues by focusing on key aspects of the transfer process: strategic planning, curricular innovations and initiatives, and outreach and advising. Many of the articles recognize that transfer is a shifting landscape, and the most imaginative promising practices now emphasize deep collaboration, and shared implementation over the long-term. All of the practices shared evoke a general movement away from transactional gestures towards the building of genuine relational connections with transfer students. This book highlights the experience of practitioners involved in the day-to-day work of serving students in a variety of institutional contexts: public and private, two-year and four-year. The authors hail from institutions around the country, as well as foundations and organizations that are devoted to the important work of improving American higher education. Their insight-often culled from years of experience-provides a set of strategies that will be useful to two- and four-year institution faculty and staff who are interested in improving the transfer process. In addition, this publication will inform policymakers who are grappling with state and national higher education issues and who seek new ideas about closing the achievement gap and increasing higher education completion rates.
The Transfer Experience
Author: John N. GardnerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000978516
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Co-published with At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success. This comprehensive resource has been brought together to meet the need for a truly holistic approach to the transfer experience. The book brings together research, theory, practical applications, programmatic illustrations, case studies, encouragement, and inspiration, and is supplemented by an online compendium for continual updates of resources, case studies, and new developments in the world of transfer.Based on a totally different way of thinking about, understanding, and acting to increase transfer student success, The Transfer Experience goes far beyond the traditional, limited view of transfer as a technical process simply about articulating credits, a stage of student development, or a novel enrollment management strategy. Rather, the book introduces a stimulating array of new perspectives, resources, options, models, and recommendations for addressing the many needs of this huge cohort – making the academic, civic, and social justice cases for improving transfer at both transfer-sending and transfer-receiving institutions.
The Transfer Challenge
Author: Harold S. WechslerPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
This handbook is designed to provide practical assistance to four-year institutions in their efforts to facilitate and increase the flow of students from two-year colleges into baccalaureate programs. The practical lessons offered are derived from a project of the Association of American Colleges (AAC) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation involving 12 public and private four-year colleges and 34 community colleges. The first section addresses issues relating to transfer from two-year to four-year institutions. The first chapter sketches the current situation and the reasons for concern, discusses the role of four-year institutions in fostering transfer, and examines ways in which the obstacles to transfer may be reduced. The second chapter describes the AAC/Mellon transfer project linking community colleges with four-year colleges for improved communication, policy formation, and flow of transfer students. The third chapter contains specific recommendations for four-year and two-year institutions to assure permanent removal of transfer barriers. The guide's second section focuses on implementation strategies for transfer programs, addressing public and private institutions in separate chapters. Each of these chapters contains case studies indicating how specific institutions facilitated transfer and draws conclusions. A 43-item bibliography is included. (MSE)
Transfer Behavior Among Beginning Postsecondary Students, 1989-94
Author: Alexander C. McCormickPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
This report analyzes patterns of undergraduate transfer behavior of students who entered postsecondary education during the academic year 1989-90. Data were derived from the spring 1994 follow-up of the 1990 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study. The report notes that attendance at multiple institutions is widespread: at 4-year institutions almost half of beginning students enrolled elsewhere within 5 years, although only 25 percent transferred; and at community colleges, 25 percent were identified as working toward a bachelor's degree. The report data, which are summarized in 9 figures and 28 tables, and the discussion cover the following areas: (1) definition of transfer; (2) the general phenomenon of attendance at multiple institutions; (3) transfer activity in general; (4) transfer from 4-year institutions; (5) transfer from public 2-year to 4-year institutions; and (5) transfer activities, controlling for background. Three appendixes provide reference tables, a glossary, and technical notes and methodology. (Contains 12 references.) (CH)
The Process of Transition for Community College Transfer Students
Author: Catherine Therese FlagaPublisher:
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Category : Community college students
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
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