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Davis, Leanne; Pocai, Jennifer; Taylor, Jason L.; Kauppila, Sheena A.; Rubin, Paul – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2022
Higher education is the surest pathway to a better living and a better life. Yet, the goal of a valuable college credential goes unrealized for too many students, especially students of color and students from low-income backgrounds. Today, more than 36 million Americans have some college credit, but no awarded degree and, the COVID-19 pandemic…
Descriptors: Time to Degree, Capacity Building, Stopouts, Reentry Students
Lichtenberger, Eric J. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2011
Reverse transferring, or moving from a four-year institution to a community college, has been depicted in recent research as one of the major forms of student mobility. Since reverse transferring is associated with extremely low rates of degree completion, it is critical to better understand the predictors of reverse transferring and what happens…
Descriptors: Credentials, Reverse Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Student Mobility
Missouri State Coordinating Board for Higher Education, Jefferson City. – 1983
The transfer of students in Missouri is multi-directional; that is, some level of transfer activity occurs between and within each major sector of higher education. The number of student transfers has risen from 15,500 in fall 1979 to 18,000 in fall 1982, with a peak of 20,000 transfers reported in fall 1981. The majority of student transfers…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Enrollment Trends, Postsecondary Education
McPhee, Sara – American Association of Community Colleges, 2006
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) conducts surveys of postsecondary students to inform policymakers and the general public on a variety of issues facing higher education in the United States. An American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) researcher prepared this brief using data from NCES's Baccalaureate and Beyond…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Graduate Surveys
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1984
Drawing from a variety of sources, this paper reviews information on transfer education in the California community colleges. Section I provides a historical review of events surrounding the transfer function and identifies some of the questions about transfer education that have arisen since 1960. Section II presents and analyzes data concerning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
McIntyre, Chuck – 1984
In response to requests for information on transfer education in California, this report examines the number and rate of transfers from two- to four-year institutions, the ethnicity of transfer students, the academic performance of transfers, and questions remaining to be answered. After a summary of major study findings and background material,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Educational Trends