Community College Transfer and Articulation Policies: Looking Beneath the Surface

Subject: student success
Date: 2009-01-30
From Bethany Gross and Dan Goldhaber, writing for the Center on Reinventing Public Education.  Authors look at statistically influential factors predicting success transfer from community colleges to four-year universities, and find that articulation policies make little difference.  The only measurable boost comes from the presence of a tenured faculty at the community college.