Over the past year, the COVID-19 global pandemic has highlighted the critical role that health professionals play in our society. This report looks closely at ADT [Associate Degree for Transfer] awards in health fields and discusses practices and challenges relayed by administrators at campuses with high rates of ADT conferral and acceptance in…

This study identifies and examines the key practices of California community college programs that have demonstrated success in improving (or that have shown significant potential to improve) the achievement of underrepresented groups whose educational attainment often lags behind the attainment of relatively well-off White students. Unlike many…

Community colleges are being pressed to eliminate barriers that keep many of their students, especially minority students, from transferring to 4-year institutions. Over the last 15 years, community colleges have stressed occupational education, and not placed sufficient emphasis on academics. (MLW)

In 1983, Cuyahoga Community College (CCC), Cleveland, Ohio, initiated a project to improve the rates of persistence, retention, and success of minority students in completing a two-year academic program and transferring to a four-year college. The project addressed four factors contributing to low rates of educational persistence and transfer: (1)…

An update is provided on the implementation of an action plan developed in 1985 for facilitating community college articulation with high schools and four-year colleges in California. After presenting background information on efforts to improve transfer and articulation in California, the report summarizes the 1985 plan and progress made in…

As part of its Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Program (UCCTOP), the Ford Foundation funded 24 community colleges to design and implement activities to increase the number of minority students obtaining associate degrees and transferring to four-year institutions. Subsequently, the Foundation gave larger grants to five of these…

Discusses the importance of measuring college transfer rates, highlighting the importance of transfer to the community college mission. Presents findings from a survey of colleges with high and low transfer rates. Discusses differences in college policies, history, and student, staff and administrator attitudes at both types of colleges. (AJL)

A study was conducted in four metropolitan areas in Florida to determine: (1) the desired and actual roles of state agencies, community colleges, and public universities in promoting the achievement of the baccalaureate degree among urban students who begin their postsecondary education at community colleges; (2) the strengths and weaknesses of…

Designed to acquaint educators and administrators with the Ford Foundation's Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Program (UCCTOP), this booklet examines the rationale for and activities and outcomes of the program. First, introductory comments indicate that UCCTOP was designed to help urban community colleges with high minority…

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…

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…