The successful transfer of community college students to four-year institutions has been and
remains a subject of intense scholarly, policy, and public interest. For a variety of reasons …

A review of the peer-reviewed papers in the top higher education journals in the last 20
years suggests that the field is relying heavily on Tinto's (1993, Leaving college: Rethinking …

It is well established that students who begin post-secondary education at a community
college are less likely to earn a bachelor's degree than otherwise similar undergraduates …

This study models student-and institutional-level factors that influence vertical transfer
among a national sample of White and underrepresented minority (URM) community college …

To enhance student success, many colleges and universities have expanded academic
support services and programmatic interventions. One popular measure that has been …

Objective: This study seeks to expand understanding of transfer student capital (TSC),
including sources of TSC and how TSC is used by community college transfer students to …

Bachelor's degree (BA) completion is lower among black students than among white
students. In this study, we use data from the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002 and the …

A growing body of research points to the important role played by “institutional agents” in
facilitating college access and success for students from non-dominant racialethnic and low …

The purpose of this study was to improve our understanding of the association between
major field of study in college and early career earnings among a sample of academically …

Using detailed administrative data from Virginia, this paper examines whether community
college “vertical transfer” students who resemble “native four-year” students in their …