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Download full textHeilmeier, Sonja; Heath, Nick – 2000
The report shows how Simon Fraser University (SFU), Canada, evaluated transfer credit for those students who transferred from colleges or university colleges in British Columbia in 1998. Transcript analysis of approximately 400 students revealed that they successfully transferred 85.2% of the credits they earned at college. On average, 8.3 earned…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Articulation (Education)
Heslop, Joanne – 1999
The report presents a profile of transfer students admitted to Simon Fraser University (SFU) from colleges in British Columbia (BC), Canada, over the five-year period, 1994/95 to 1998/99. In the five year period ending in the 1999 spring semester, a total of 8,323 students were admitted to SFU from BC colleges (33% of all new students admitted to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Articulation (Education)
Heslop, Joanne – 1998
This report presents a profile of transfer students admitted to Simon Fraser University (SFU) from British Columbia (BC), Canada, colleges from 1993/94 to 1997/98. Section A provides a general profile of transfer students by: college from which students transferred to SFU, number of transfer credits students were admitted with, number of credit…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Articulation (Education)
Heslop, Joanne – 1998
This report presents a profile of transfer students admitted to Simon Fraser University (SFU) from British Columbia (BC), Canada, colleges from 1992/93 to 1996/97. Section A provides a general profile of transfer students by: college from which students transferred to SFU, number of transfer credits students were admitted with, number of credit…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Articulation (Education)
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Direct linkCohen, Arthur M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1994
Discusses the economic, demographic, and curricular trends likely to have an impact on the transfer rate. Indicates that the transfer rate should increase because of lower numbers of first-year students accepted by universities, funding cuts for avocational courses for adults, and an increase in the number of 18-year olds. (MAB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), College Attendance, College Transfer Students
Preston, David L. – 1993
A study was performed to determine the feasibility of using grade point averages and course-completion ratios in determining the success of community college students who transferred to four-year institutions. Four Texas universities searched their transcript files for students who had transferred from Brazosport College (BC), and provided BC with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Records, College Transfer Students
Henry, Barbara L.; Knight, William E. – 2000
This study provides a thorough examination of the experiences of a group of students who transferred from a public community college in the Midwest to a nearby public residential university between spring 1994 and spring 2001. The study population consisted of 552 students who transferred from the community college to the university with 12 or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), College Credits, College Transfer Students
Brewer, Carolyn – 1990
The Washington State Board for Community College Education and the Washington Center for Undergraduate Education undertook a national review of minority student success programs in 1990. Information was solicited from program directors, deans of instruction and student services, national organizations, state higher education boards, students,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Academic Persistence, Access to Education
