Archives of #transfer students

Prioritizing Transfer for Tomorrow’s Higher Education Landscape

As four-year colleges and universities make their way through an unprecedented semester, they are now taking stock of a fall enrollment landscape informed by the public health impact of COVID-19 and the accompanying economic recession. Summer enrollment data and accounts from across the country make clear that students from lower-income backgrounds and communities of color […]
4 years ago

How Private Four-Year Institutions Can Pave a Path for Community College Transfers to Postsecondary Success

This is the second installment in a series dedicated to expanding transfer opportunity at high-graduation-rate, four-year colleges and universities. Administrators, faculty, and staff at selective colleges and universities often assume that transfer students from community college won’t be able to make the grade. In fact, private institutions are better served by enrolling more community college […]
3 years ago

Transforming Transfer Culture at Scale: Insights for Public Universities

This is the third installment in a series dedicated to expanding transfer opportunity at high-graduation-rate, four-year colleges and universities. Public universities nationwide have long excelled in recruiting and admitting large numbers of community college transfer students: roughly 300,000 a year, about four times the number that private institutions enroll. For many of those students, however, […]
3 years ago