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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED296748 AUTHOR: Rendon, Laura I.; And Others
TITLE: Transfer Education in Southwest Border Community
Colleges. Final Report of the Ford Southwest Transfer
Education Research Project.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1988
NOTE: 304 p.
ABSTRACT: The study described in this report examines both
the positive and negative influences on student retention
and transfer at six community colleges located along the
U.S.-Mexico border. Chapter I reviews the literature on
retention and transfer and establishes the conceptual
framework and research objectives of the study. Chapter II
offers baseline data on the six colleges, Southwestern
College and Imperial Valley College in California, Arizona
Western College and Cochise College in Arizona, and Laredo
Junior College and Texas Southmost College in Texas. This
section includes information on student enrollment by
ethnicity and gender, associate degree recipients, transfers
to senior institutions, type of information sent to and
received from senior institutions, and faculty and counselor
characteristics. Chapter III presents the results of site
visits to the six community colleges and to two four-year
colleges, focusing on the attitudes of community college
staff concerning student achievement and transfer, internal
and external barriers to minority student achievement,
effective community college policies and practices,
institutional monitoring of student flow and persistence,
and relevant senior institution policies and practices.
Chapter IV presents a profile of the students attending the
six community colleges in terms of their background,
educational commitments, social integration on campus, and
predisposition to transfer. Chapter V examines the
characteristics and attitudes of the community college
faculty. Chapter VI reviews state-level policies and
practices affecting student achievement and transfer in
California, Arizona, and Texas. Finally, chapters VII and
VIII discuss the findings and offer conclusions and
recommendations. Survey instruments are appended. Included
are 94 references. (AYC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Academic-Achievement; Affirmative-Action;
Community-Colleges; Educational-Assessment; Minority-Groups;
Postsecondary-Education; Program-Effectiveness; School
Policy; Student-Characteristics; Teacher-Attitudes; Teacher
Characteristics; Two-Year-Colleges
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Faculty; *College-Transfer
Students; *Enrollment-Trends; *Hispanic-Americans; *Transfer
Programs; *Two-Year-College-Students
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