Glossary

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Articulated Transfers

• "Students who meet the minimum requirements for transfer to UC or CSU who have completed coursework based on an articulation agreement between the community college and UC or CSU and typically enter as juniors" (Horn, L. & Lew, S., 2007, p.1).

ASSIST

• “The Articulation System Stimulating Interinstitutiomal Student Transfer (ASSIST) is a Web-based transfer planning tool that shows students courses that they must complete at California Community Colleges so that they can successfully transfer to a CSU or UC campus.” (Taggart, Valenzuela & Sragovicz, 2000, p.1)

At-risk students

• “Student who are ethnic minorities, academically disadvantaged, disabled, of low socioeconomic status, and probation students” (Heisserer and Parette, 2002, p.69).

Bridge Transfer

• Students who have not met the requirements to be classified as an articulated transfer, and are further classified as being all other "transfers that appear to have used a CCC as a bridge to enroll in a 4-year college presumably at a lower level"(Horn, L. & Lew, S., 2007, p.1).

California Community Colleges

• A nonresidential junior college offering courses to people living in a particular area.

• “Provides open access to higher education for all students irrespective of ethnicity, gender, age disability, or economic circumstances” (Academic Senate of California Community Colleges, 2002, p.4).

Concurrent Transfer

• Undergraduates that simultaneously attending a four-year institution and a community college (Tobolowsky, 1998, p.2)

Double-dipping

• A term describing a students concurrent enrollment at two institutions (Borden, 2004)

Educational pipeline

• “Defined as the continuous progression from high school to college and into the workforce- and ultimately become productive citizens who contribute to national, state and local economies” (Green,2006,P.23).

Returning Transfer

• Students that transfer from community college to four-year institution, then return to a community college (Tobolowsky, 1998, p.2)

Reverse Transfer

• Students that transfer from a four-year institution to a community college (Tobolowsky, 1998, p.2)

Swirling Students

• A term used to characterize the back-and-forth, multiinstitutional attendance pattern common among students attending community colleges (Borden, 2004)

Traditional Transfer

• Students that transfer from a community college to a four-year institution (Tobolowsky, 1998, p.2)

Transfer

• Move or cause to move to another group, occupation, or service.

• Enroll in a different school or college.

Transfer agent

• Authority figures who, in helping students navigate complicated academic requirements and application procedures, also validate students' educational aspirations and dispel fears of not belonging (Cooke Foundation, 2006, P.9).

Transfer champion

• Administrators and faculty with a commitment to educational equity who advocate for administrative practices that promote transfer access; they represent the views of transfer students, socioeconomically disadvantaged students in particular, to shape institutional policies and practices in ways that are amenable to the transfer student experience (Cooke Foundation, 2006, P.9).

Transfer Completion Rate

• “Of those who transfer, this is the percentage of those who earn the BA or higher degree” (Mc Hewitt & Taylor, 2003, p. 4).

Transfer eligible rate

• The transfer eligible rate is calculated by dividing the number of transfer directed students by those who are transfer eligible (Rasor and Barr, 1995, P.2).

Transfer Rate

• “All students entering the two-year college who have no prior college experience and who complete at least 12 college credit units within four years, divided into the number of that group who take one or more classes at a public, in-state university or college within four years” (McHewitt & Taylor, 2003, p. 4).

Transfer Readiness

• “A prototype model for…determining community college transfer effectiveness.“ (Scott-Skillman, 1996, ABS)

Transfer shock

• "This shock is exemplified by an initial drop in the transfer students’ grade point average upon arrival at their new institution" (Wolf-Wendel, Twombly, Morphew & Sopchich, 2005, p.216).

• A term that describe the lowered academic performance of transfer students after transferring in comparison to pretransfer academic performances (Miville and Sedlacek, 1995).

• “Transfer students experience at dip in their grade point average during their first or second semester at the four-year institution” (Eggleston & Lannan, 2001, p.1).

• “The notion is that students transferring from community colleges experience an initial decline in their grade point average during the first semester and first year of their attendance at a four-year college. The inferences drawn from the studies and the use of the work ‘shock’ seem to exaggerate the actual study results and may simply be a further indication of the four-year school’s unwillingness to equitably value the two-year college” (Handy, 2001, p. 5).

• “…A drop in grade-point average at the new 4-year institution.” (Flaga, 2006, p.3)

Transfer student

• “Generally describes those who transfer from one institution to another, studies have demonstrated that persons within this group vary in both pretransfer and posttransfer performance along a number of demographic and academic dimensions: age, race/ethnicity, year of transfer, institution of origin (2-year vs. 4-year), and pretransfer GPA” (Miville and Sedlacek, 1995).

• "New profiles show significantly more part-time students who persist to transfer, the majority who work 21 to 30 hours per week, more females, more ethnic groups other than white, and a student age range that extends far beyond the traditional 18 to 20 years" (Hall, 1990, P.243)

Underserved students

• Historically defined as low-income students. First generation college students (Green 2006).