ERIC Number: ED647980
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Mar
Pages: 17
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Lessons from a Statewide Transfer Grant Program: Impacts of the Texas Transfer Grant Pilot Program on Community College Student Transfer
John Diamond; Sukanya Barman; Rebekah O’Donoghue; Erick Alonzo
MDRC
More than half of community college students nationwide intend to pursue a four-year degree; however, in Texas only one in four community college students transfer to four-year institutions successfully. Among students who do transfer to a Texas four-year institution, roughly 60 percent go on to graduate with a bachelor's degree. The result is that only about 15 percent of Texans who start at a community college end up graduating from a four-year institution. To improve transfer rates and, ultimately, bachelor's degree attainment, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) launched the Texas Transfer Grant Pilot Program with money provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund. MDRC evaluated the pilot program to build evidence about its efficacy and help inform future THECB decisions about the program. This policy brief follows up with additional findings about the pilot program's impact on students' enrollment and academic outcomes at Texas four-year institutions during the fall 2022 and spring 2023 semesters--two semesters after students initially received the fall 2022 transfer grant.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Transfer Students, Pilot Projects, Community College Students, Grants, Financial Support, State Colleges, Technical Education, Private Colleges, Public Colleges, Enrollment Rate, Student Attitudes, Transfer Programs
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) (ED), Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund
Authoring Institution: MDRC; Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB)
Identifiers - Location: Texas
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