Recent concern about academic quality and costs has resulted in growing criticism of the transfer function of the community college. This criticism has arisen, in part, from the evaluations of university-based researchers who have argued that a very small percentage of community college students succeed in transferring to four-year institutions…

Cerritos College needs to develop a more effective transfer process in order to assist more students in achieving their educational goals. Only 15% of students actually transfer, while 60% initially had intentions to do so. The main reasons for the low rate of transfer are: (1) the lack of unity among the various transfer services; (2) the under…

In 1990, a study was conducted to review and evaluate the condition of transfer and articulation among the four community colleges and two universities within the University of Nevada System (UNS) and to propose policies and procedures to strengthen and support the transfer system. Over 2,000 transcripts of UNS graduates from the classes of 1986…