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ERIC Number: ED493676
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 60
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Traveling Successfully on the Community College Pathway
Johnson, Tracy, Ed.
Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students (TRUCCS)
This cumulative report presents the synopses of the major articles, research notes, and publications from the Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students (TRUCCS) project. After a Letter from the Director and sections on the people and origins of TRUCCS, and a synopses, the report contains the following sections: (1) Transfer between community colleges and four-year colleges; (2) Course shopping in urban community colleges; (3) Ten ways community colleges help and hinder students; (4) Transcript analysis as a tool to understand community college student academic behaviors; (5) How to define retention; (6) Using Web surveys to reach community college students; (7) Transfer Center stories; (8) Remedial mathematics courses among urban community college students; (9) Student patterns of multiple enrollments; (10) Community college model of student life and retention; (11) Adult students and their "fit" in postsecondary institutions; (12) The role of Latino representation in the success of urban community college students; (13) If university students are from Mercury, community college students must be from Pluto; (14) The role of urban community colleges in educating diverse populations; (15) The urban community colleges and educational success among Latino students; (16) Women in non-traditional vocational majors; (17) California's experience with reverse transfer students; (18) Is there a "chilly" climate for female community college faculty?; (19) Retention of Asian Pacific Americans; (20) Understanding differences among community college students across varying levels of parental education; (21) Taking the golden state path to teacher education; (22) The role of friendship in community college students' decisions to persist, transfer, or withdraw; and (23) In the words of TRUCCS students. Two appendices comprising "The language of TRUCCS" and "Doctoral dissertations analyzing TRUCCS data" conclude the report. [This report was produced by the Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students (TRUCCS) project. Additional sponsoring agencies of this document and the TRUCCS project include: the Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California Rossier School of Education; and the Department of Educational Administration and Policy, College of Education, University of Florida Department of Educational Administration and Policy, College of Education.]
Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students (TRUCCS). USC Rossier School of Education, Waite Phillips Hall Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90089-4035. Tel: 213-821-2464; Fax: 213-740-2028; e-mail: truccs@usc.edu; Web site: http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/truccs/
Publication Type: Collected Works - General; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.; Lumina Foundation for Education, Indianapolis, IN.; Los Angeles Community Coll. District, CA.
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: California
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A