Partnerships that Promote Success:
Transfer from Community Colleges to Selective Four-Year Institutions
Hosted by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
September 15-17, 2010
at the
Washington Marriott
1221 22nd Street NW Washington, D.C., 20036
What are the programs and practices that lead to the successful transfer of high achieving, low-income students to the nation’s most selective four-year colleges and universities?
Five years into the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Community College Transfer Initiative (CCTI), the Foundation invited higher education administrators, faculty, researchers and others to learn about the efforts of eight colleges and universities and their 60 community college partners to increase access for high achieving, low-income students to the nation’s best four-year institutions. This forum also provided an opportunity to learn about other efforts over the past several years to strengthen the educational pipeline for this talented and underserved group of students.
The Foundation trusts that information presented at this forum will contribute to each participant’s efforts to fulfill our primary objective – increasing and improving transfer opportunities for high-achieving, low-income community college students. We also hope this forum also provides a context within which we can learn from each other, in which we openly exchange thoughts and ideas about the ways this objective can be met.
Sessions include:
- Community College Linkages: Leveraging the Lessons Learned Through the CCTI Experience
- Promoting Mentoring and Persistence for Transfer in STEM at Selective Institutions
- Near Peer Transfer Advisors: Using Partnerships and Data to Provide Innovative Advising
- The Development and Evolution of a Transfer Relationship
- The C-STEP Program: A Strategic Partnership between the Community College and University
To see the full agenda, please click here.
To see presentations from the conference, click here.
To download the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation's RFP for the new CCTI Grant, click here.
The conference also highlights findings from the Foundation’s four-year Community College Transfer Initiative and examines policies and practices that support the transfer of high-achieving, low-income community college students to the nation’s best four-year institutions.
