Two projects involving the City University of New York that address problems associated with the transfer of community college students into senior college programs are described. The City University Course Equivalency Project has provided course-by-course information on credit transfer. Two major phases were involved: the evaluation by each…

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…

Data concerning the college attendance and the distribution of 1982-1983 high school graduates of New York State's public and nonpublic schools are presented. The data were secured through the Education Department's Basic Educational Data System and reflect the status of graduates in fall 1983. Tables cover the following: the types of institutions…

This project report describes the participation of South Mountain Community College (SMCC), in Phoenix, Arizona, in the Ford Foundation's Urban Community Colleges Transfer Opportunities Program, and the activities developed at the college to guide students from the beginning of their college careers at SMCC through their transfer and retention at…

In 1984, a study was conducted to gather information regarding the rates and patterns of student transfer from Roxbury Community College (RCC) to four-year institutions. Information on the 178 students who graduated from RCC in 1981 and 1982 was obtained from the RCC Registrar's office and the four-year institutions in Massachusetts to which…

Statistical data on higher education activities in North Carolina, includes simple counts of enrollment and degrees conferred, as well as complex analyses of the flow of student transfers among institutions. The following sections are presented: current enrollment, enrollment trends, undergraduate transfers, degrees conferred, faculty, library…

Data concerning the college attendance and the distribution of 1983-1984 high school graduates of New York's public and nonpublic schools are presented. The data were secured through the Education Department's Basic Educational Data System and reflect the status of graduates in fall 1984. Tables cover the following: trends in the college-going…

An extensive opinion survey and feasibility study was undertaken to determine whether student and adult residents of Cameron, Clearfield, and Elk counties, Pennsylvania felt a need for a community college "without walls" to serve the area. The college without walls involves using existing educational facilities in local areas without…

Presented are the preliminary results of a study of the effects of relative labor market opportunities for the highly educated on high school academic achievement and college attendance. Across regions, a one percent decline in college relative to high school graduates is estimated to induce a decline of 0.3 to 1.4 percent in reading and…

This volume is based on the responses of 374 English teachers at the secondary and college levels to a letter asking them to describe the questions that most perplex them professionally. Answers are provided by 88 leaders in English education, including James R. Squire, Walter H. MacGinitie, R. Baird Shuman, Sheila Schwartz, and Ken Macrorie. The…

A study undertaken in Arizona in 1975 was comprised of two parts, a pilot study and a comprehensive survey of high school students. It had as an overall objective to provide a data resource useful to all citizens and postsecondary institutions, to manpower and employment agencies, and to the state's high schools for program planning and…

The characteristics and attitudes of 982 incoming freshmen who attended 2-day orientation programs at the University of Maryland, College Park, were compared to those of 566 incoming freshmen and 378 transfer students who attended 1-day orientation programs. The University New Student Census (UNSC), a 78-item questionnaire consisting of…

Prospective students who received application materials for Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), Pennsylvania, in 1976 and 1978 but did not apply for admission were surveyed to determine student background factors or attitudes that may have influenced their choice of colleges to which they applied. Findings include the following: nonapplicants…

The opinions of nearly 17,000 college-bound and noncollege-bound high school seniors concerning a wide range of issues of both personal and social significance were surveyed in 1979 at the end of the senior year. Developing successful personal relationships, particularly a good marriage and family life, ranked at the top of freshman goals in life,…

After discussing several issues related to the disproportionately large number of minority students who initiate baccalaureate studies at two-year colleges, this paper urges minority community colleges to strengthen the college transfer function. The paper first summarizes the problems and characteristics of today's community college transfer…