Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are a recent and popular approach in developing countries to improve health and education prospects of poor families through conditional financial incentives. However. due to sub-optimal transfers and administrative difficulties in identifying needy families, many CCT programs suffer from incomplete…

In 1984, Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) received an Urban Community College Transer Opportunity Program (UCCTOP) grant to develop a successful transition model to encourage minority student enrollment at MDCC, North Campus, to improve minority students' success in transferring to four-year institutions, and to improve the retention rate of…

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…