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Going beyond Transfer Agreements: The Best Choices Program and a Web of Connections
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DuVal, Chris; Artis, Wayne – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2020
This chapter describes a long-term successful transfer partnership between Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC) and the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs (UCCS). The Best Choices program provides clearly defined pathways for students planning on transferring from PPCC to UCCS, including overall transfer plans that extend from start to finish.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Universities, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Transfer Programs
Framing the Transfer Experience for Community College Students: Connection, Preparation, Support, Advocacy, and Resilience
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Elena Sandoval-Lucero; Janell Lindsey; Libby Klingsmith; Rebecca Chavez – Community College Review, 2024
Objective/Research Question: This practitioner-scholar study investigated perceptions and experiences of community college students who transferred upon completion of their associate degree programs in Colorado, a state with multiple state-level transfer policies. Each student participated in a cohort-based transfer support program offered at…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Student Experience, Student Attitudes, Associate Degrees
Optimizing Reverse Transfer Policies and Processes: Lessons from Twelve CWID States. Thought Paper
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Taylor, Jason L.; Bragg, Debra D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2015
In 2012, five foundations launched the Credit When Its Due (CWID) initiative that was "designed to encourage partnerships of community colleges and universities to significantly expand programs that award associate degrees to transfer students when the student completes the requirements for the associate degree while pursuing a bachelor's…
Descriptors: Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy, College Transfer Students, Associate Degrees
Equity in Excellence for Colorado's Future: "A Policy Audit and Analysis"
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Michelau, Demarée K. – Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, 2014
Equity in Excellence is a two-year project launched in 2013 to support the implementation of Colorado's higher education reform agenda. With a focus on the metropolitan Denver area, the project intends to align the state's higher education policies with concrete, equity-focused actions at its public community colleges and four-year institutions.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Competency Based Education
University-Two Year College Cooperation Through Direct Communication Linkages.
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Maxwell, L. M.; And Others – 1970
Colorado State University launched an experimental program, CO-TIE (Cooperation via Televised Instruction in Education), with one other 4-year college and five 2-year colleges in the state. The program was designed to ease the transition of junior college transfer students in engineering and other professional disciplines to a 4-year college. It…
Descriptors: Automation, College Credits, Computer Science, Engineering
The Great School Bus Controversy.
Mills, Nicolaus, Ed. – 1973
This anthology attempts to put the great school bus controversy of the 1970's in perspective by providing a forum in which a series of widely differing views, backed by hard data, can be compared. The first section, "Background and Legal History," places the controversy in a perspective that predates the 1970's. One article focuses on…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Boards of Education, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects