Purpose: This article examines the literature on the transfer function in American higher
education, and it reviews three primary dimensions of transfer:(a) the transfer function and …

2 redesigning america's community colleges tion efforts such as the US Department of
Education's College Navigator website, which allows students and parents to compare …

Background Increasing the number of engineering graduates continues to be a national
priority and influences the need to understand persistence of all student pathways. Few …

Minding the Dream provides challenging, reflective, and practitioner-based information
about community colleges that is data-based, clear and accessible for the general reader as …

This study aims to understand the role of financial aid in college success of two-year
beginning nontraditional students. By applying discrete time event history models with …

Despite the long-standing centrality and growing prevalence of transfer in the American
postsecondary system, students, college professionals, and policymakers decry the lack of …

Sense of community may play an important role in the undergraduate transfer student
experience by encouraging academic and social success. This cross‐sectional study …

Sponsored by Concerned by ongoing debates about higher education that talk past one
another, the authors of this book show how to move beyond these and other obstacles to …

This study compared the effectiveness of ACT [R] Composite score and high school grade
point average (HSGPA) for predicting long-term college success. Outcomes included annual …

Community colleges open the door to opportunity for millions of Americans who want to
pursue higher education and secure their economic futures. As an organization founded on …