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Transcript of the Podcast Interview [pdf]
Stats for Community College Transfers
Courtesy of Community College Week.
Previous Articles
The Community College Transfer Problem
July 2009 - diverseeducation.com
"Boosting student transfers from community colleges to four-year institutions is a matter of getting all the right policies and programs in place."
Can Community Colleges Save the U.S. Economy?
July 2009 - time.com
"Community colleges are deeply unsexy. This fact tends to make even the biggest advocates of these two-year schools—which educate nearly half of U.S. undergraduates—sound defensive, almost a tad whiny. 'We don't have the bands. We don't have the football teams that everybody wants to boost,' says Stephen Kinslow, president of Texas' Austin Community College (ACC). 'Most people don't understand community colleges very well at all.' And by 'most people,' he means the graduates of fancy four-year schools who get elected and set budget priorities."
Defining Moment
July 2009 - insidehighered.com
"There is concern, however, that a significant number of low-income students will be thwarted in their efforts to transfer from nearby community colleges. By closing off spring admission in 2010, as it plans to do, the system will leave some community college students with nowhere to go."
In-state students stay close to home
July 2009 - westernfrontonline.net
"An early CollegeBoard.com prediction said the economic downturn would disrupt students' college choices. However, that prediction did not prove true for fall 2009. With the failing job market and unemployment on the rise, many students, especially in-state community college students, are deciding a college education is essential."
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