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Collaboration with community colleges for transfer students.

Students don’t continue on when transfer credits “lost.” When credits are lost, students often take on more debt and spend more time retaking courses. They may use up the federal loans they’re eligible for or just get discouraged and drop out. That’s one reason that while 80 percent of students attending community colleges say they’d […]
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Collaboration with community colleges for transfer students.

Collaboration between community colleges and 4-year institutions. Suggestions include; shared faculty and educational space, two-plus-two agreements, 2-year degree students are a “good risk” because they already know how to study, special scholarship for transfer students, create specific degrees for community college campuses that aren’t offered at the main campus (including computing and technical degrees), service-learning […]
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Transfer Student Enrollment

Burack, C., Lanspery, S., Piñeros Shields, T., & Singleton. S. (2019). Partnerships That Promote Success: Lessons and Findings from the Evaluation of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Community College Transfer Initiative. Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. Retrieved from  https://www.jkcf.org/research/partnerships-that-promote-success-lessons-and-findings-from-the-evaluation-of-the-jack-kent-cooke-foundations-community-college-transfer-initiative/
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Ideas and resources related to mentoring

Mentoring pages from Michigan State University, part of their Academic Advancement Network. Much of the information was adapted from the Mentoring Toolkit developed as part of the work on NSF ADVANCE Grant #0811205, awarded to Michigan State University in fall 2008. Strong practices in advancing diversity still continue today from the original work. Mentoring
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Transfer Student Enrollment

Cox, P. (2018). Minnesota’s private colleges opening up to community college students. Minnesota Public Radio. Retrieved from https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/14/minnesota-private-colleges-opening-up-to-community-college-students. hyperlink: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/11/14/minnesota-private-colleges-opening-up-to-community-college-students Hello World What used to be a tricky and frustrating process, is becoming somewhat easier as colleges find they need more diversity and steadier enrollment. It speaks to partnerships between private colleges and community colleges […]