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John Fink; Taylor Myers; Daniel Sparks; Shanna Smith Jaggars – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Using administrative data from nearly 270,000 transfer-intending students who began at 70 community colleges across three state systems, this paper seeks to identify a set of metrics that will be useful to community college leaders as they formatively assess their colleges' efforts to improve STEM transfer outcomes. We find that a relatively…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Transfer Programs
Patterson, Susan J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
An interpretative philosophical framework was applied to a case study to document the particular experiences and perspectives of ten women engineering transfer students who once attended a community college and are currently enrolled in one of two university professional engineering programs. This study is important because women still do not earn…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Transfer Students, Engineering, Engineering Education
Albertson, Harold; And Others – Engineering Education, 1985
Describes the work of a curriculum committee established to create a "transfer curriculum" for engineering technology students transferring from two-year to four-year programs. The resulting program (which allows flexibility while providing some guidance for engineering technology programs), transfer problems, issues, and public response…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Curriculum Development, Engineering