This document includes tables and graphs illustrating the transfer rates of University of Hawaii Community College (UHCC) students into the University of Hawaii (UH) four-year campuses. The population of the study was restricted to those students enrolled at UHCCs in either the Fall 2000 or Spring 2001 semester with a declared educational…

To answer questions about who goes to college, who persists toward a degree or credential, and what happens to students after they enroll, the National Center for Education Statistics conducted three national longitudinal studies to track students' through the postsecondary education system. These three surveys, the National Education Longitudinal…

This publication is the first in what will be a new set of Academy in Transition policy and research reports on important trends in undergraduate education and the changing environment in which colleges and universities are educating a much larger percentage of the population. College-level learning in high school is a rapidly growing, but…

This report provides an overview and profile of students who transferred from a British Columbia (BC) community college, university-college or institute to a BC university from 1994-1999. Report highlights include: (1) in most cases, students transferred to the BC university closest to their transfered institution; (2) 35% of students entered a BC…

This dissertation examined the transfer experiences of students who exited the Community College of Baltimore County (Maryland) and transferred to Towson University during 1999. The research questions addressed the issues of the role of the community college in teacher preparation and how the institutions help or hinder the transfer of prospective…

This paper describes NU Start, a summer learning community program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for first-year students of the English department and the University Library faculty. NU Start offered 4 sections of an Introduction to Literature course, each with 13 or 14 students. In addition, all students took a one-hour, self-paced…

Temple University has been the transfer institute most frequently attended by Community College of Philadelphia graduates and former students. This report provides short and long-term persistence rates of college students who transfer to Temple University (Pennsylvania). During fall semesters between 1988 and 1998, 22,248 students were admitted to…

This study attempts to discern the rate at which first-time-in-college (FTIC) Austin Community College (ACC) (Texas) students transfer to senior institutions, and which senior institutions they choose to attend. Highlights of the report include: (1) From 1990-1993, Austin Community College students transferred to four-year institutions at a higher…

This study used data from the Parent and Youth Surveys of the 1999 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES:1999) to investigate how much "college-bound" students in grades 6 through 12 and their parents know about the cost of attending college and the relationships between their knowledge of college costs and how they go about…

This national study surveyed communication faculty and administrative members in the Community College section of the National Communication Association to assess and determine the state of articulation and transfer between two- and four-year institutions. It surveyed faculty members to determine if transfer rates from the communication discipline…

This report provides descriptive data on the transfer function at the 108 individual California community colleges, introduces a new methodology for calculating transfer rates, provides raw and adjusted rates for all colleges, and discusses the assistance provided to enhance effective transfer. Report highlights include: (1) 95% of the colleges…

This paper describes a teacher recruitment project that involved a 90-minute reception on a high school campus designed to help students learn more about what it is like to be a family and consumer sciences (FCS) educator. Planning the reception involved obtaining funding, inviting students, creating a multimedia presentation, selecting teachers…

Setting standards on educational tests is extremely challenging. The psychometric literature is replete with methods and guidelines for setting standards on educational tests; however, little attention has been paid to the process of setting standards on computerized adaptive tests (CATs). This lack of attention is unfortunate because CATs are…

These guidelines, issued by the Coordinating Board for Higher Education in the State of Missouri, are for promoting and facilitating the transfer of students between institutions of higher education within the state. They are issued according to statutory requirements. The guiding principles of this report hold that the transfer process should not…

In 1995, the State Board of Community and Technical Colleges in Washington forecasted that the number of students transferring from the two-year to the four-year sectors would flatten or even decline during the period from 1994 through 1998, and that the number of transfer students would rise by 50% from 1999 to 2010. This report reconfirms that…