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Download full textCohen, Arthur M.; Sanchez, Jorge R. – 1997
In 1989, the Transfer Assembly project was initiated by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) to determine the contribution of community colleges to students' progress towards baccalaureate degrees. In that year, 48 community colleges provided data on students, with transfers defined as students with no prior college experience who…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Data Collection
Cohen, Arthur M. – Community, Technical, and Junior College Journal, 1992
Describes a multiyear national effort by the Center for the Study of Community Colleges to stabilize a definition of transfer rates and collect data on student transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions. Presents preliminary findings and reactions to the study/findings by college practitioners. Advises simplicity and efficiency.…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Data Collection
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1987
A major reason for the paucity of usable data on the contributions and effectiveness of community colleges is that the definitions on which the data are based are imprecise. Colleges' contributions might be better understood if their functions were reconceptualized. The collegiate dimension of community colleges (i.e, that portion of the…
Descriptors: Academic Education, College Curriculum, College Role, Community Colleges
PDF pending restorationCohen, Arthur M. – Transfer Working Papers, 1992
In an effort to standardize the definition of the two-year college student transfer rate and to collect national transfer data, the Center for the Study of Community Colleges (CSCC) has solicited data annually since 1989 from a sample of 240 public and private two-year colleges nationwide. The CSCC has standardized the definition of "transfer…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Definitions
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1993
The community college mission includes such diverse goals as preparing students for job entry, teaching literacy, and satisfying students' personal interests. Measuring the colleges' transfer rates by no means tacitly elevates the transfer function above these other functions; it merely helps institutions estimate the effects of interventions on…
Descriptors: College Role, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Data Collection
PDF pending restorationCohen, Arthur M. – 1979
Accurate data on the number of students who transfer from two-year colleges to senior colleges are not available because the ways of counting transfers vary greatly from system to system and state to state. While most studies define transfer students as those who have taken courses at a community college and subsequently enroll at a senior…
Descriptors: College Credits, College Transfer Students, Data Collection, Definitions
Cohen, Arthur M. – 1992
Issues surrounding the transfer function of California's community colleges are analyzed in this report. First, a historical overview is provided of the role of community colleges, their relationship to the California State University and the University of California systems, and expectations concerning transfer. Next, problems associated with…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Data Collection
