As fewer community college transfer students complete a bachelor’s degree, authors Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar believe the trend is rooted in “gatekeeping” practices at public four-year colleges.
In a six-year study interviewing 104 transfer-intending students, Jabbar, an associate professor at the University of Southern California, said viewing transfer issues solely as a community college problem only “moves the needle a little bit.”
“A lot of these existing reforms that focus on community colleges do help,” Jabbar told The 74. “But it doesn’t address the larger problem if universities are not helping students.”
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