The Advisor provides important information or "system alerts," in user-friendly format and language, on issues and changes affecting admissions and transfer. This document outlines new transfer possibilities in academic arts and science programs, and business diploma programs -- the two largest programs offered by the colleges,…

This report details a focus group's efforts to ascertain if the Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutional Student Transfer (ASSIST) implemented on the World Wide Web was easy for students to navigate and use. Another purpose of the analysis was to discover if the information contained within ASSIST was easily understood by community…

This document discusses the transfer rates of students who entered Virginia's community colleges in the fall of 1995, using the methodology developed by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges. Numerous tables in the document include individual college rates with breakdowns by race/ethnicity and gender. College-specific transfer rates are…

ConnectED 2000, a gathering of representatives of an array of precollege outreach programs, was the beginning of a national dialogue about such outreach programs. To continue and increase this dialogue it is necessary to find out more about precollege outreach programs. A step in this direction was taken through a national survey developed by The…

This booklet contains answers to questions that students may ask about financial aid for college. The booklet describes the usual costs of college, and suggests ways students can pay for a college education. The types of financial aid available are described, and the application process is outlined. The booklet offers tips for comparing different…

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…

The number of students per 1,000 12th graders who participated in Advanced Placement (AP) examinations shows the level of importance that students, schools, and colleges place on the AP program and how that importance has changed over time. Between 1984 and 1997, the number of students who took AP examinations increased dramatically, from 50 to…

The purpose of this bill is to amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to permit states to determine state residency for higher education purposes and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to cancel the removal and adjust the status of certain alien college-bound students who are long-term U.S.…

This report provides a follow-up to the 1999 "Plan for Course and Credit Transfer Between Oregon Community Colleges and Oregon University System Institutions" by specifically responding to its call for ongoing data-collection and research efforts. The purposes of this report are as follows: (1) to summarize the results of four years of…

This brochure is designed to guide student athletes who want to transfer from one institution to another during their college career. It covers rules for transferring from a two-year college to an NCAA Division I, II, or III college; from a four-year college to an NCAA college; or for students who have transferred from four-year to two-year…

This report presents Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) results for high school seniors in the Wake County Public School System (WCPSS), North Carolina. In Wake County, the number of seniors taking the test rose to 3,496 in 1998-99, an increase from 3,377 in 1997-98 (3.5%). The average SAT score for WCPSS seniors in 1998-99 (1059) was the third…

This report assesses the transfer credit process for British Columbia (BC) college transfer applicants to the University of British Columbia (UBC). Results indicate that students are earning on average 49.7 credits from the BC college attended and are being granted an average of 42.2 credits when transferring to UBC. This translated into 84.9% of…

This report presents a brief overview of the most common approaches to the calculation of transfer rates and discusses the use of a transfer rate as a measure of institutional effectiveness. It provides an overview of existing practices and helps to inform a discussion of whether or not transfer rate data should be collected from British Columbia…

This report summarizes the trends in transfer students at Maryland public higher education institutions during the past 10 years, 1993-2002. Specifically, the figures include the number of students enrolled at a community college in the fall of each year who transferred to a public four-year institution by the fall of the following year; the…

Reports on a study designed to assess the career plans and related attitudes of students about to enter college. (RP)