This paper presents the findings of a longitudinal study into the nonlinear transfer behaviors of students beginning higher education at the Maricopa County Community College, Arizona, and transferring to one of Arizona's three universities. The transfer patterns of recent high school graduates entering the community college in fall 1994 were…

This study shows how community colleges can track almost all of their own students who transfer into both public and private colleges and across state lines using the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC) database. It utilizes data from the student information systems of Broome Community College, New York; Cayuga Community College, New York; the…

Half of all students who begin college in America--and an even higher proportion of underrepresetned minorities--matriculate at community colleges. If the bachelor's degree is a requisite for major social and economic advancement, then transfer must be an essential community college mission. Calculating the transfer rate is important as a measure…

For the past 10 years, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges has been tracing the rate of transfer from the two-year colleges to four-year colleges and universities across the nation. In order to derive a transfer rate, the number of students enrolled at the college, subdivided according to certain criteria, must be divided into the…

Almost all studies of college student retention inappropriately combine stopouts with transfer-outs due to a lack of data. The National Student Loan Clearinghouse (NSLC) has created a new database that tracks students across institutions. These data, in combination with institutional databases, now allow researchers to take into account both…

The Student Right-To-Know and Campus Security Act gives community colleges a strong incentive to track transfer students. Westchester Community College (WCC) in New York devised a four-step process to track students who transferred to four-year college before graduating. The method used to track student transfers involved the following steps: (1)…

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…

Community colleges must often analyze and report rates for outcomes, such as transfer to four-year colleges. A single, summary rate may be an invalid measure of its achievement in the transfer goal if the summary rate ignores the real difference in enrollment composition at different institutions. California's community colleges embody a very…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between type of associate degree and academic performance at the four-year college of community college students who transferred with an associate degree to a four-year institution. Academic performance was measured by baccalaureate-degree completion rate and grade point average (GPA) upon…

This article focuses on the transfer of students from California community colleges to four-year colleges and universities. Following a brief introduction to laws and procedures specified upon the inception of community colleges in California in 1910, and a recognition of the difficulty in student transfer throughout the history of higher…

This article discusses community colleges as educational institutions that not only prepare students to transfer to other colleges, but also receive transfer students from other institutions as well. The article emphasizes the limited awareness of this transfer reciprocity, both on part of the general public and of policymakers. Cited are the…

This presentation discusses community college transfer and the Cerritos College (California) President's Emphasis on Transfer (PET) Task Force, a project committed to making Cerritos College a transfer-oriented institution. Among the goals PET has accomplished are: (1) creating the Scholars Honors Program, which sent three of its first six…

This study compares the educational aspirations of college freshmen students in public and private two-year colleges around the nation. Surveying a sample of over 13,000 first-time, full-time students from a national database elicited the following results: about half of students at public and private two year colleges aspired to obtain the…

In reports on transfer outcomes to the state Board, the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) regularly uses the definition of transfer developed by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges' Transfer Assembly (TA). This model does not consider student intent in the pool of transfer-eligible students. In response to concerns by some…

A discussion is presented of Hispanic community college students and the prospects and problems related to their transfer to four-year institutions and progress toward the baccalaureate degree. First, the question of Hispanic student transfer rates is placed in the context of community college enrollment/transfer patterns in general and Hispanic…