A university director of admissions's visit to high schools for military dependents in West Germany is described. The trip was made to encourage college application among dependent students and to assist them in receiving further information from the colleges of their choice. (MSE)

Presents findings from a survey of 292 community college-bound high school seniors, 86 community college administrators, and 21 community college counselors conducted to analyze differences in the perceptions of the three groups regarding student needs for counseling and advising. (AYC)

Institutions need to identify new ways to facilitate the return and adaption of students to higher education and its environment. The purpose of this article is to propose the Student Reentry Center as a timely and feasible plan to assist and encourage students in their reenrollment for academic study. (Author/NG)

This guide provides moderators with a sense of what deliberation means, their roles, the dialogue format, and principles and skills they need to keep in mind as they interact with the participants. The purpose of a deliberative dialogue is to bring community members together to discuss a relevant and important issue. The question addressed in this…

Accurate measures of transfer are important to the assessment of community college outcomes. This article uses a relatively new database from the National Student Clearinghouse to assess transfer rates at the State University of New York community colleges. Past studies only tracked students within the public sector of a given state. Once…

This study examined second-term and second-year retention of freshmen (n=6,054) and nonfreshman transfer students (n=2,733) from DePaul University, a large, urban, private institution. The predictor variables included both achievement and noncognitive measures collected at DePaul and on the ACT Assessment. Two questions formed the basis for this…

This report uses the phrase, "College Readiness" to refer in a general sense to the level of preparation a student needs to be ready to enroll and succeed--without remediation--in a credit-bearing course at a two-year or four-year institution, trade school, or technical school. Increasingly, however, college readiness also means "workplace"…

This paper discusses the relationship between education and earnings, explaining that most states still consider college preparatory courses to be electives, and the skills and content needed for further education are not typically reflected in state high school assessments. It discusses the implications of this mismatch for young people, focusing…

This report provides background and summary information on undergraduate students who transfer from public community colleges to baccalaureate degree-granting institutions in California. The report describes the basic requirements that students must meet to transfer from community colleges to California State University (CSU) and University of…

This report discusses the transfer rate of community college students with A.S. or A.A.S. degrees from vocational or "terminal" programs in Missouri. The study shows that during the 1995-1996 academic year, 6,171 students received an associate degree from a Missouri public two-year college. Of these, 3,169 (51%) earned the A.A. degree…

Every semester about 3,800 Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) (California) students indicate a desire to transfer to the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB). However, for the academic years 1998-2000, less than 450 SBCC students successfully transferred to UCSB. This study examines three consecutive SBCC cohorts' traits and performance…

This 1993-1997 study had two objectives: to inquire into the post-transfer academic at a four-year university, and to answer the call for continued research into articulation and transfer. The author found that (1) a group of 561 Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) students who transferred to George Mason University (GMU) over a 5-year…

This publication reports on the rates of transfer of Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) students and tracks what kinds of transfer institutions these students choose. The study analyzes transfer rates by school type: two-year in-state, two-year out-of-state, four-year in-state, and four-year out-of-state. It also analyzes the data…

This brochure highlights two successful ENLACE partnership programs that connect college aspirations with actual college attainment for Latino students: (1) The "ENLACE y Avance" (Advance) partnership, led by the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), whose innovative program of family home visits provides information about…

The eighth in a series of reports, prepared by the Office of Institutional Research, regarding transfer students from California's Los Rios Community College District, this document provides longitudinal data on transfers from the District's three colleges (i.e., American River College (ARC), Cosumnes River College (CRC), and Sacramento City…