Understanding the Impact of Reverse Transfer Students on Community Colleges: New Directions for Community Colleges, No. 106

by Barbara K. Townsend

• ISBN13: 9780787948474
• ISBN10: 0787948470
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Traditional enrollment and recruitment models do not address an important pattern in the two-year college: the increasing presence of reverse transfers, students who transfer from a four-year to a two-year college. In an effort to fill this gap in the current models, this volume of New Directions for Community Colleges presents vivid profiles of the different types of reverse transfer students-- exploring their reasons for attending, their enrollment patterns, and their educational needs. The authors share their institutions' strategies for recruiting, retaining, and serving reverse transfer students and reveal how the presence of reverse transfer students affects policy-making, at both the institutional and external levels.This is the 106th issue of the Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Community Colleges.

Author Biography

BARBARA K. TOWNSEND is professor of higher education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. While a professor at the University of Memphis, she worked in the Office of Academic Affairs on transfer and articulation issues. She is a former community college faculty member and administrator.

Table of Contents

1. What Do We Know About Reverse Transfer Students? (Barbara K. TownsAnd, John T. Dever).

2. Paradoxes: California's Experience with Reverse Transfer Students (Linda Serra Hagedorn, Consuelo Rey Castro).

3. Understanding and Recruiting the Reverse Transfer Student: A Presidential Perspective (James L. Catanzaro).

4. The Urban Postbaccalaureate Reverse Transfer Student: Giving New Meaning to the Term Second Chance (John W. Quinley, Melissa P. Quinley).

5. Reverse Transfer Students in an Urban Postsecondary System in Oregon (Susan K. Bach, Melissa A. Banks, David K. Blanchard, Mary K. Kinnick, Mary F. Ricks, Juliette M. Stoering).

6. Bachelor's Degree Students Attending Community Colleges: A Look at Postbaccalaureate Reverse Transfer Students in Missouri (Terry L. Barnes, Laura M. Robinson).

7. Postbaccalaureate Reverse Transfers in Maryland and Tennessee: Institutional Problems and Possibilities (Barbara K. Townsend, Rivkah Y. Lambert).

8. Institutional and Public Policy Implications of the Phenomenon of Reverse Transfer Students (Daniel J. Phelan).

9. Sources and Information on the Scope and Impact of Reverse Transfers (Christine M. LeBard).