Introduction: While a considerable amount of extant scholarship describes the importance of and strategies for improving the postsecondary pathways of Black engineering students, most literature is contextualized within 4-year institutions. Objectives: The purpose of this article is to illuminate Black engineering students' experiences at…

With more and more students making community college the starting point of their postsecondary education, there is potential in the pipeline; tapping into it promises great rewards. Transfer has long been integral to the community college mission, but navigating the path to the four-year degree continues to be a challenge. Transfer students have…

Adult community college students, age 25 and older, have been understudied in the extensive college transfer literature, which otherwise focuses on traditional-age college students age 18 through 24, or on students of unspecified age. According to the theoretical framework of academic momentum articulated by Clifford Adelman (2006), enrollment…

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…

This report, undertaken by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia, intends to provide information on transfer students and identify obstacles faced by transfer students in order to create policy that will aid transfer students in the future. Key findings of the report are as follows: (1) transfer enrollments at public four-year…

This manual is designed to aid Montgomery Community College students who wish to transfer or who are considering transfer to four-year colleges or universities. It provides assistance to students in planning a four-year program through a general discussion of transfer and a detailed presentation of transfer procedures. Study abroad is briefly…

The Academic Senate of the California Community Colleges created this document in 2001. Its goal is to measure the degree of use, effectiveness, and acceptance of the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC). The study was completed through three different questionnaires: (1) one was distributed to recent community college…

The achievements of junior college transfer students, four year college transfer students and native juniors as measured by the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) are compared in this study. The data indicated that junior college transfers rank lower than four-year college transfers and natives in academic ability and socioeconomic status.…

This research report from Contra Costa Community College District (CCCCD), California, summarizes relevant findings from assessments of the performance of students receiving transfer education, and CCCCD's progress in meeting its Partnership for Excellence (PFE) goals in this area. Findings reported include the following: (1) Student Goal…

The British Columbia Open University (BCOU) offers distance courses in a variety of disciplines. This study presents demographic and academic profiles of two types of BC transfer students: (1) Non-resident students known as University Access and Transfer (UAT) students registered in a BCOU Degree Program in 1999; and (2) Resident students, or…

This document presents the preliminary study reporting transfer rates from the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) to both in-state and out-of-state community colleges and baccalaureate institutions. The data are based on a match between the social security numbers of community college students enrolled in California community colleges with the…

The role of community colleges (including technical and junior colleges) and the transfer of students to 4-year institutions are discussed. This issue presents three articles. The first article, "Democracy's Colleges," suggests that community colleges are the most successful institutional innovation in 20th century American higher…

This report is a staff review of an evaluation, conducted by the Carrera Consulting Group, of Project ASSIST (Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer), a program designed to facilitate the transfer of students at California community colleges to California State University and the University of California by providing…