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Barriers to Transfer Bibliography

Cardenas, R, and Warren, E. Community College Access: Barriers and Bridges. New Directions for Community Colleges, no.19. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1991

This article details some of the possible barriers to academic success and transfer including whether the students are minority, first-generation, or single-parents.

Illinois Board of Higher Education Commission on Persistence and Degree
Completion. (June, 2001)Discussion Points: Factors Affecting Persistence and
Degree Completion.

In addition to recommendations for increased student persistence, this paper documents risk and success factors to persistence.

King, M.C. “Enhancing Transfer.” NACADA Journal, 1994, 14(1), 4-7.

This article offers a synopsis of some of the barriers to transfer as well as offering solutions. Colleges mentioned in the article include Vasser College, LaGuardia Community College, University of Arizona, and the California college systems.

Prager, C. The Other Transfer Degree. New Directions for Community Colleges, no.
16. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1988.

This article explains how students in academic programs have more credits accepted for transfer than students in occupational/technical programs.

Striplin, J.J. “Facilitating Transfer for First-Generation Community College
Students.” ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges, 1999

Issues common to first-generation students, as well as ways to deal with them are addressed in this paper.

Risk Factors Bibliography

Adelman, C. (1998). Answers in the Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attendance
Patterns, and Bachelor’s Degree Attainment, U.S. Department of Education,
Washington, DC.

American College Testing (2001). “What Helps or Hinders Students’ Chances of
Success in College?” http://www.act.org/research/briefs/2001-3.html

Astin, A. (1996), Degree Attainment Rates at Colleges and Universities, Higher
Education Research Institute.

Illinois Board of Higher Education (August 2000), Time to Degree: A Report on the
Conference.

National Center for Education Statistics (2000). Descriptive Summary of 1995-96
Beginning Postsecondary Students: Three Years Later, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC

National Center for Education Statistics, “Postsecondary Persistence and Progress:
Remediation and Degree Completion.” The Condition of Education 2000,
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2000/section3/indicator34.html

Noel-Levitz prediction model described in Reisberg, L. (1999). “Colleges Struggle
to Keep Would-Be Dropouts Enrolled,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October
8, 1999

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