Implementing Transfer Associate Degrees

CC (Community Colleges) Staff, Carrie B. Kisker, Richard L. Wagoner

In recent years a convergence of several forces such as increased legisllative involvement in higher education, governmental and philanthropic pressure to increase postsecondary degree and certificate production, and fiscal belt-tightening at colleges and unversities across America, has resulted in efforts to signifcantly reform community college to university transfer and articulation processes. One increasingly popular method of reform is the implementation of transfer associate degrees: statewide pathways or degree programs that allow students to both earn an associate degree from a community college and transfer seamlessly into a state university with junior status. This volume outlilnes the elements off effective transfer associate degrees and explores their implementation in six states including Arizona, California, Louisiana, New Jersey, Ohio, and Washington.