March 27, 2009

The Trouble With Transferring: It Shouldn't Be So Difficult

By BOB LAIRD

It is, once again, fashionable to declare community colleges the answer to the serious problem of low college enrollment and graduation rates for African-American, Latino, and Native American students, and for low-income students of all backgrounds. Nearly all the national discussions that propose community colleges as the primary solution, however, ignore the complex issues that have kept transfer rates low for such students for many years. Here are some of the most common, but widely

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