Most high-school graduates who enter California’s community colleges intending to transfer eventually to a four-year institution either drop out or no longer consider transferring a primary goal after just one semester, according to a report released this week by Policy Analysis for California Education, an independent research center based at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University.
The report, “Beyond Access: How the First Semester Matters for Community-College Students’ Aspirations and Persistence,” is based on a study that followed students ages 17 to 20 who enrolled at a California community college for the first time in the fall of 1998. Of all of those students, less than one-third transferred to a four-year institution during the six years following their enrollment in the community-college system.
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