In 1983, the Ford Foundation funded a two-part project, the Urban Community College Transfer Opportunities Project (UCC/TOP), designed to improve the transfer process from the community college to the four-year institution for urban minority students. Through partnership efforts with secondary schools and four-year colleges and universities, the 23 UCC/TOP colleges developed and implemented a wide variety of programs to enhance the transfer success of targeted groups. This monograph contains: (1) an overview of the UCC/TOP project; (2) recommendations based on the experiences of the participating institutions with respect to productive collaboration between two- and four-year colleges, two-year college and high school cooperation, student follow-up and data collection, improving the academic environment, and increasing the responsiveness of student services; (3) descriptions of the projects undertaken at each institution (Bronx Community College, Hostos Community College, and LaGuardia Community College in New York; Community College of Baltimore in Maryland; Community College of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania; Compton Community College, Laney College, four Los Angeles Community College District campuses, Sacramento City College, and San Diego City College in California; Cuyahoga Community College in Ohio; Highland Park Community College in Michigan; Honolulu Community College in Hawaii; the Houston Community College System in Texas; J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Virginia; Lawson State Community College in Alabama; Miami-Dade Community College, North Campus, in Florida; Roxbury Community College in Massachusetts; South Mountain Community College in Arizona; and State Community College in Illinois); and (4) an afterword by Alison Bernstein, program officer from the Ford Foundation. (AYC)