Discusses three common misperceptions of community college transfer education. Considers the notions that a revitalized transfer function is destructive to vocationalism and perhaps to curricular comprehensiveness; that transfer education is elitist; and that professing ignorance can be a useful way of dealing with those investigating transfer…

Urges community colleges to view transfer as a matter of student and organizational behavior, and as a matter of academic practice. Argues that increased attention to these transfer issues will facilitate better descriptions and analyses of the transfer function as well as students' baccalaureate attainment. (DMM)

Designed as a call to community college faculty, administrators, and trustees to make a major investment in the collegiate function of their institutions, this book attempts to provide a strong conceptual foundation for vigorous renewal of the collegiate community college. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the community college as a collegiate…