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Heaney, Barbara M. – 1991
Drawing from data collected by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC), this paper discusses the issue of community college student transfer, describes the CSCC's role in promoting a definition of transfer that would provide a reasonable definition of "transfer students" and that would result in the ability to provide consistent and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Credits, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Belcher, Marcia J.; Baldwin, Anne – 1991
Designed to facilitate the dissemination of information, particularly within Miami-Dade Community College (M-DCC), this report consolidates transfer statistics on Florida's community colleges provided by several state sources. These sources include the annual Articulation Report published by the Division of Community Colleges, the annual State…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Associate Degrees, College Outcomes Assessment, College Transfer Students
Harden, Harold D. – 1991
In Florida, the first articulation agreement was made in 1959, guaranteeing the transferability of a set of community college general education courses to the state's universities. A new agreement, accepted by Florida's community colleges and universities in 1971, defined the Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree as a two-year transfer degree. This…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), College Planning
Hamilton, John M. – 1993
Two studies were performed to examine the transfer rates of first-time freshmen in the Business Administration (BA) major at a public two-year college to senior colleges or universities in the University System of Georgia (USG). The first study tracked students for 4 years, beginning in fall 1988, and the second study tracked students for 3 years,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Business Administration Education, Cohort Analysis, College Credits
Castillo, Max – 1984
Community colleges serve more than half of all entering freshmen, half of all the women seeking higher education, and more minorities than all of the 4-year colleges and universities combined. Serving this population, the leaders and policy makers of community colleges must recognize the reasons for the underrepresentation of minorities in college…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Articulation (Education), Black Students, Change Strategies
Sanborn, D. H. – 1979
Although the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) are rooted in the tradition of providing transfer education to Chicago's working class youth, the current administrative acceptance of a market-oriented, vocational philosophy has resulted in a decline in general education courses and has jeopardized equal access to higher education. This vocational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, College Role, Community Colleges
Armstrong, William B. – 1993
A study was performed to test the association between the proportion of liberal arts course offerings and institutional transfer rate by merging the data on liberal arts offerings in the community colleges included in the 1991 National Community College Curriculum Study with the transfer rate data for these same colleges obtained from their…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Curriculum, College Outcomes Assessment, College Transfer Students
Andrews, Michael B.; Hall, Donald E. – 1991
In fall 1988, Arctic College (AC--Northwest Territories, Canada) in collaboration with Athabasca University (AU--Alberta, Canada) initiated the University Transfer Program (UTP) to provide first-year university education for full- and part-time students at the Yellowknife campus of AC. Program content, standards, and instruction were maintained by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
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Findlen, George L. – ATEA Journal; v25 n2 p4-7 Dec 1997-Jan 1998, 1997
Despite common beliefs that technical college students do not wish to, and cannot, transfer to four-year institutions, many studies have found the opposite to be true. Research shows that 26% of students enrolled in vocational programs intend to transfer to a baccalaureate institution, and occupational course credits from technical colleges are…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), College Credits
Clark, Brenda S.; Woloszyk, Carl A. – 2002
Western Michigan University (WMU) in Kalamazoo, Michigan, has partnered with Michigan community colleges to develop an occupational education studies (OES) program to prepare future career and technical education (CTE) instructors by allowing students to transfer their technical degree from the community college as their teaching major at the…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Credits
Kramer, Gary L., Ed; Childs, M. Wayne, Ed. – 1996
This monograph presents 9 papers and 11 reports of innovative applications concerned with the design and integration of technical support systems in the academic advising workplace. The papers are into three parts: technology, student academic advising and planning; using technology to deliver academic support services, and the future roles of…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Computer Oriented Programs, Degrees (Academic), Educational Counseling
Justiz, Manuel J., Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book presents 19 papers on efforts to increase the participation of members of minority groups in higher education. The papers are: (1) "Demographic Trends and the Challenges to American Higher Education" (Manuel Justiz); (2) "Three Realities: Minority Life in the United States--The Struggle for Economic Equity (adapted by Don…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Access to Education, American Indians
City Coll. of San Francisco, CA. – 1998
This study was conducted in order to reveal the nature of community college life at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and investigate the transfer process through the "eyes" of CCSF students. Interviews were conducted on approximately 30 faculty, 15 administrators, and 60 students to discover the motivations behind decisions to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Role, College Transfer Students
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