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Rachel Baker; Elizabeth Friedmann; Michal Kurlaender – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2023
The transfer between two-year and four-year colleges is a critical path to baccalaureate attainment. Yet students face a number of barriers in transfer pathways, including a lack of coherent coordination and articulation between their community colleges and four-year institutions, resulting in excess units and increased time to degree. In this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Colleges, Transfer Programs, College Transfer Students
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2025
The General Appropriations Act, Senate Bill 1, Article III, Special Provisions, Section 45, 89th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, for the 2026-27 biennium directs the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB or Coordinating Board) to submit an annual report that presents the goals and practices of Texas public general academic…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, State Legislation, Higher Education, Universities
Rachel Baker; Elizabeth Friedmann; Michal Kurlaender – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
The transfer between two-year and four-year colleges is a critical path to baccalaureate attainment. Yet, students face a number of barriers in transfer pathways, including a lack of coherent coordination and articulation between their community colleges and four-year institutions, resulting in excess units and increased time to degree. In this…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Colleges, Transfer Programs, College Transfer Students
Miller, Jessica – Utah System of Higher Education, 2019
Prior learning refers to the knowledge, competencies, and skills acquired through formal and informal education outside a traditional academic environment or at the initiative of the individual learner. For example, if a current or potential student participated in an employee training program, military service, or took standardized exams such as…
Descriptors: College Credits, Prior Learning, Adults, Nontraditional Students
Senecal, Molly Frances – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The introduction of SB-1440 in 2010, also known as the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, appeared to be an opportunity for California educators and policy makers to address the achievement gap among community college students with the introduction of the streamlined associate degree for transfer (ADT) (Padilla, 2010). If implemented…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Associate Degrees
New Mexico Higher Education Department, 2018
The New Mexico (NM) higher education state attainment goal -- the Route to 66 -- has been a driving force for many of the initiatives undertaken in New Mexico. The New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) works energetically and collaboratively with 31 public higher education institutions (HEIs) across the State. The HED also registers and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Adult Education
New Mexico Higher Education Department, 2019
This annual report provides the details of how some of New Mexico Higher Education Department's (NMHED) accomplishments will improve the lives of New Mexico's students. New for 2018, in addition to NMHED-led programs, this report includes profiles of each of New Mexico's public higher education institutions (HEIs) to the report. Each profile is a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Community Colleges, Enrollment