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Enhancing Community College Transfer Rates for Student Success

Explore strategies to increase transfer rates from community colleges, including early outreach, streamlined processes, and fostering a transfer culture. Addressing challenges like basic skills gaps and promoting baccalaureate opportunities at community colleges.

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Enhancing Community College Transfer Rates for Student Success

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  1. Community Colleges: Increasing the Transfer Rate, What Works? Los Angeles CCD • Armida Ornelas • Alexa Victoriano • Francisco Rodriguez AAHHE March 10, 2017

  2. Necessary ingredients to improve the transfer rate • Aspiration • Inspiration • Perspiration

  3. National picture

  4. The California Community Colleges

  5. Education TRENDS & ISSUESIN LOS ANGELES Accountability Movement Achievement/Opportunity Gap Anti-Immigrant Sentiment Charter School Movement Chronic Underfundingfrom State Collective Bargaining/Unions Crisis in Public Confidence Demographic Shifts English-language Learners Leadership Turnover: Retirements & Succession Planning Overregulation Public School and Higher Education Financing Poverty of School Children and College Students Recovery from Disinvestment Caused by Great Recession Rising Heath & Benefits Costs School/College Board Politics Teacher/Faculty Preparation Testing to the Standards Underpreparedness of Students Voter Fatigue

  6. TOTAL ENROLLMENTS: 225,942

  7. Ideas on increasing the transfer rate Early outreach with P12, communities and families Streamline application and on-boarding process Design, align and refine student support services, transfer counseling and advising for students Create an institutional transfer culture Nurture a positive student mindset for transfer Create an institutional transfer culture Increase course-to-course articulation with 4-year universities Mandate transfer as state funding and legislative priority Clarify and strengthen transfer pathways

  8. Pierce College Center for the Sciences

  9. Challenges and opportunities in transfer Address pervasive remedial/basic skills education gaps Incentivize full-time enrollment Strengthen Associate Degrees for Transfer (ADT) Increase more and better course articulation with 4-year institutions Make transfer institution-wide responsibility Hire, promote individuals who reflect the diversity and values of institution Increase baccalaureate degree opportunities at community colleges Strengthen ties between technical education and transfer education Better understand the connection between poor health, poverty and educational attainment

  10. Final thought “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Thank you for being that one.

  11. GRACIAS! Uds. son el orgullo y la esperanza de nuestracomunidad.

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