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Direct linkTownsend, Barbara K. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2002
States that disagreements over whom should be counted as a transfer student or potential transfer student render it almost impossible to determine a national rate of students transferring from community colleges to the four-year sector. Urges administrators to improve on tracking the various types of community college transfers in order to yield a…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Educational Mobility
Peer reviewedTownsend, Barbara K. – Community College Review, 2001
Argues that community college transfer mission needs to be redefined as facilitating baccalaureate degree attainment for college students in general, not just for students who begin their undergraduate education in the two-year college. Current patterns of transfer from and to the community college need to be considered. (AUTH/NB)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Bachelors Degrees, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Peer reviewedTownsend, Barbara K.; Barnes, Terry – Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 2001
Argues that because students with vocational associate degrees are not usually expected to transfer to four-year institutions, studies examining academic performances of two-year college transfer students rarely use type of associate degree as a variable. Attempts to determine a relationship between type of associate degree and baccalaureate…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Credits, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
