Bridging the Gaps to Success: Promising Practices for Promoting Transfer Among Low-Income and First Generation Students
The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education examines the programs and policies that colleges have established to help low-income and first generation college students' ability to transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions.The report highlights the work being done in Texas community colleges which has high transfer rates among institutions. Chandra Taylor Smith, Abby Miller and C. Adolfo Bermeo, The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, Nov. 19, 2009