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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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Offer undergraduate certificates

From CIC report (p. 57): “Augustana College introduced a certificate program in nonprofit leadership development to help prepare liberal arts majors for leadership roles with nonprofit organizations. The program was developed in response to student interest and in alignment with the college’s mission and values. It provides students with formal documentation of their competence in the areas of communication, business, accounting, and ethics.”