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Institutional Practices That Facilitate Bachelor's Degree Completion for Transfer Students
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This paper explored the characteristics and experiences of low-income, first-generation community college transfer students in Texas and two-year and four-year institutional approaches to facilitate transfer student degree completion.Abstract:
This chapter presents findings from two recent Pell Institute studies, which explored the characteristics and experiences of low-income, first-generation community college transfer students in Texas and two-year and four-year institutional approaches to facilitating transfer student degree completion.read more
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The Multiple Dimensions of Transfer: Examining the Transfer Function in American Higher Education:
Jason L. Taylor,Dimpal Jain +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the literature on the transfer function in American higher education, and review three primary dimensions of transfer: (a) transfer function and pathways, (b) pathways and transfer function.
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Facilitating Transfer Student Success: Exploring Sources of Transfer Student Capital:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors seek to expand understanding of transfer student capital (TSC), including sources of TSC and how TSC is used by community college transfer students to navigate transfer to a new institution.
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Adult transitional theory and transfer shock in higher education: practices from the literature
TL;DR: A review of relevant higher education literature related to transfer shock and core research related to adult transitional theory can be found in this article, where the authors outline foundational research on adult transition theory and transfer shock in higher education to provide the reader with a theoretical and practical framework for the library-focused articles.
Transfer Student Success: Educationally Purposeful Activities Predictive of Undergraduate GPA.
TL;DR: Marling et al. as discussed by the authors found that almost 60% of students attended multiple institutions, transferred, and/or co-enrolled prior to graduation, and these mobility patterns referred to as student swirling are today more the norm than the exception in higher education.
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Understanding the transfer student experience using design thinking
Linda Whang,Christine Tawatao,John Danneker,Jackie Belanger,Stephen Edward Weber,Linda Garcia,Amelia Klaus +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss a 2015-2016 University of Washington Libraries project focused on understanding the needs and challenges of transfer students on the Seattle campus and developing innovative ways to support transfer student success.
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Classrooms as Communities: Exploring the Educational Character of Student Persistence.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of classrooms as communities in higher education, and propose a model of classroom as communities, which they call "classrooms as communities". But
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Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree
TL;DR: This paper examined how the outcomes of community college entrants compare to similar students who initially entered four-year institutions within the Ohio public higher education system, and found that those who initially began at a community college were 14.5 percent less likely to complete a bachelor's degree within nine years.
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It's Not Enough to Get Through the Open Door: Inequalities by Social Background in Transfer from Community Colleges to Four-Year Colleges
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Hispanic Student Success: Factors Influencing the Persistence and Transfer Decisions of Latino Community College Students Enrolled in Developmental Education
Gloria Crisp,Amaury Nora +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of a set of theoretically derived predictor variables on the persistence and transfer of Hispanic community college students, and used logistic regression analysis to test the hypothesized conceptual framework on an existing set of quantitative persistence data drawn from a national sample of Hispanic students.
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Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree
TL;DR: In this article, the viability of the transfer function in community colleges is questioned and many question the feasibility of transfer function and wonder whether it can be used to transfer students from community colleges.