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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
Kathi LeCroy-Horne – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this quantitative nonexperimental study was to investigate the success of students who use transfer articulation agreements to transfer from any of the 13 community colleges in Tennessee to one of the state's public, four-year, locally governed institutions to complete a bachelor's degree. Data were collected from five 4-year public…
Descriptors: Community College Students, College Transfer Students, Colleges, Transfer Policy
Reddy, Vikash; Flores Morales, Josefina – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2022
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…
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations, Nurses
Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2017
Beginning at a local two-year college and then transferring to a four-year institution has been one of the most affordable ways for students to earn a bachelor's degree. Yet transfer pathways from two- to four-year institutions are often complex and confusing, and too many students who begin at a community college and aspire to earn a bachelor's…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy
Senecal, Molly Frances – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The introduction of SB-1440 in 2010, also known as the Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act, appeared to be an opportunity for California educators and policy makers to address the achievement gap among community college students with the introduction of the streamlined associate degree for transfer (ADT) (Padilla, 2010). If implemented…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Associate Degrees
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, 2015
Washington's community and technical colleges, private non-profit baccalaureate, and public baccalaureate colleges and universities have a proud history of partnering to serve students. Nowhere is this cooperation more evident than in the smooth transfer process from community and technical colleges into four-year colleges and universities. This…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Technical Institutes, Private Colleges
Lewis, Jodi; Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Moore, Colleen; Nodine, Thad; Venezia, Andrea – Education Insights Center, 2016
Student transfer processes from the California Community Colleges (CCC) to the California State University (CSU) have been simplified somewhat over the past few years, but they remain complex and confusing for most transfer students, according to students, administrators, and staff at several community colleges and CSU campuses. Transfer…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, State Universities
Shorette, Rob; Byrd, Daniel – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2016
Our new report, "Keeping the Promise: Going the Distance on Transfer Reform," has found significant improvements in the creation of a seamless transfer pathway between California Community Colleges and the California State Universities (CSU) since the passage of historic transfer reform legislation, SB1440, six years ago. This report…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Transfer Policy, Transfer Programs, Transfer Rates (College)
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
Altstadt, David – Jobs For the Future, 2014
Despite widely shared aspirations, the vast majority of community college students do not continue their studies at four-year colleges. In November 2013, "Jobs for the Future" convened higher education leaders and researchers to explore state-level policy strategies for restructuring community college in ways that enhance student…
Descriptors: Transfer Programs, Educational Change, Community Colleges, Transfer Policy
British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2012
The BC Council on Admissions and Transfer is always seeking ways to improve the transfer system for the benefit of students. Doing so is often informed by research in one form or another. Questions were added to the 2011 Diploma, Associate Degree, and Certificate Student Outcomes (DACSO) survey to help us gain a better understanding of why some…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Associate Degrees, Feedback (Response), Transfer Policy
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Wagoner, Richard L.; Kisker, Carrie B. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
The previous six chapters have focused on particular aspects of the processes involved in implementing transfer associate degrees in various states. In this chapter, the authors synthesize that information by presenting an ideal state-level organizational model for implementing these degrees and describing the various constituencies involved in…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, Transfer Programs, Transfer Policy, Program Implementation
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Cohen, Arthur M. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
Transfer education centering on the liberal arts declined relatively beginning in the late 1960s with the expansion of vocational education. But the distinctions blurred as courses that matched university programs in business and health fields grew. By the 1970s more than half all associate degrees awarded were to students from occupational…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees, Community Colleges
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Patton, Jane; Pilati, Michelle – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
In 2010, California's then-governor Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 1440, called the "Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act" (Padilla, 2010), into law. This bill mandated that the state's 112 community colleges (CCCs) develop a new type of associate degree, an "associate degree for transfer," that specifically prepares a…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Transfer Students, Reflection, College Faculty
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Harper-Marinick, Maria; Swarthout, Jeanne – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
Student success in transfer from a community college to a university is dependent on several key characteristics of any articulation and transfer system: structure, policies and processes, and the accessibility of the system design. The public institutions of higher education in Arizona have designed and implemented a transfer and articulation…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Articulation (Education), Institutional Characteristics, Associate Degrees
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