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Rebecca K. Woolston; Madeleine R. Kerrick; Jaquelyn Caro-Sena – Education Insights Center, 2024
From 2016-2023, College Futures Foundation supported several California State University (CSU) campuses to partner with California community colleges in their regions to increase the number of students transferring from community colleges and completing bachelor's degrees at the CSU. In an effort to learn more about this work, College Futures…
Descriptors: State Universities, Community Colleges, Transfer Programs, Institutional Cooperation
Marshall, David W.; Jankowski, Natasha A.; Vaughan, Terry, III – National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment, 2017
Tuning is a bottom-up, faculty-led process which leads to the creation of a discipline-specific learning outcome document along with a degree profile that is used to communicate the value of a particular degree to a variety of audiences including students, employers, policy makers, and the general public. Tuning, introduced in the United States in…
Descriptors: Academic Degrees, Educational Objectives, Program Effectiveness, College Faculty
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Frana, Philip L.; Rice, Stacy – Honors in Practice, 2017
James Madison University (JMU) and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) teamed up in April 2014 to build a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between their respective four-year and two-year honors programs. This MOU is the basis for the continued work between these two institutions to collaborate and find research to assist other interested…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Honors Curriculum, College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy
LaViolet, Tania; Fresquez, Benjamin; Maxson, McKenzie; Wyner, Joshua – Aspen Institute, 2018
"The Talent Blind Spot," which is divided into two reports, demonstrates that, each year, more than 50,000 high-achieving, low- and moderate-income community college students do not transfer to a four-year institution. Approximately 15,000 of these students have a 3.7 GPA or higher, which suggests they could succeed at even the most…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, College Transfer Students, Graduation Rate