Tracking Student Transfers [electronic resource] : The Perils and Pitfalls of Complying with the New Student Right-To-Know Act (PL 101-542) / Marcia M. Lee.
The Student Right-To-Know and Campus Security Act gives community colleges a strong incentive to track transfer students. Westchester Community College (WCC) in New York devised a four-step process to track students who transferred to four-year college before graduating. The method used to track stu...
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| Summary: | The Student Right-To-Know and Campus Security Act gives community colleges a strong incentive to track transfer students. Westchester Community College (WCC) in New York devised a four-step process to track students who transferred to four-year college before graduating. The method used to track student transfers involved the following steps: (1) taking all the requests made for a transcript to be sent in a given semester and removing from the files those requests that were not sent to a bona fide four-year college; (2) sending confirmation of enrollment forms to all transfer institutions to which transcripts were sent; (3) setting a deadline for responses; and (4) generating computer reports using Paradox and Lotus 1-2-3 of patterns in transfer college choice and of student characteristics. In fall 1990, WCC sent 1,350 transcripts to four-year colleges, and 87.8% corresponding confirmation of enrollment forms were returned. Of these, 38% confirmed that the student had transferred, and 40% indicated that the student had not transferred. The remaining 22% of the forms either were not returned at all; indicating that the student had been accepted but had not enrolled; or lacked sufficient information to be included. The transfer students enrolled in a total of 148 four-year institutions, with 17.9% enrolled in State University of New York colleges. The largest number of students who transferred were not enrolled in any curriculum; the average number of hours completed was 37.2 hours; and the average grade point average was 2.9. Appendixes include the transfer confirmation form, and statistical summaries of transfer institutions and the majors and characteristics of WCC transfer students. (KP) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED372785. ERIC Note: Paper presented to the New York State Association of Institutional Researchers and Planning Officers (Albany, NY, January 15, 1994). |
| Physical Description: | 19 pages |