The number of community college students transferring to four-year schools is increasing. Community college students are able to transfer a high percentage of their earned credits to a four-year school. In an analysis of transcripts among students moving between Portland, Mt. Hood, and Clackamas community colleges and Portland State, some 83 percent of earned credits were accepted for transfer. Students do not move in lockstep from high school to community college to four-year school. A study of 504 transcripts in the Portland area showed that three out of four students moved to higher education through one of seven distinct patterns of attendance.
Transfer students perform at about the same academic level as non-transfers.
OUS and CCWD officials plan to continue and expand the data-match effort. They hope the additional information will help inform students and policymakers, as well as impact future curricular decision making at community colleges and universities. Faculty and staff attending the show may enter their name for a prize drawing to be held Wednesday, Dec. 6. The drawing includes everyone on campus who has given to the fund this year. Prizes include seven gift certificates for Columbia Sportswear jackets and two tickets to the Northwest West Afrikan American Ballet Heritage Concert.