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THE TRANSFER ACADEMY: PROVIDING COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH THE INFORMATIONAL, STRUCTURAL, RELATIONAL, AND CULTURAL RESOURCES TO TRANSFER SUCCESSFULLY TO A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE
by
Kenechukwu (K.C.) Mmeje
________________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
August 2012
Copyright 2012 Kenechukwu (K.C.) Mmeje
Object Description
| Title | The Transfer Academy: providing community college students with the informational, structural, relational, and cultural resources to transfer successfully to a four-year college |
| Author | Mmeje, Kenechukwu (K.C.) |
| Author email | kcmmeje@yahoo.com;kcmmeje@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-04-30 |
| Date submitted | 2012-06-19 |
| Date approved | 2012-06-19 |
| Restricted until | 2012-06-19 |
| Date published | 2012-06-19 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Bensimon, Estela |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Dowd, Alicia Tarrant, Kaneesha |
| Abstract | Access to the baccalaureate by way of the community college transfer function is diminishing. Students who are first generation, low-income, or from historically underrepresented backgrounds are most impacted by constrained access to four-year universities vis-à-vis transfer; these populations are more likely to access higher education through community colleges (Shulock & Moore, 2005). This study explored ways in which a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), Morningside College, through a purposeful student program (the Transfer Academy), provided participants the support and resources they needed to overcome the barriers commonly associated with transfer. Stanton-Salazar’s (1997, 2001, 2004) social capital framework and Bensimon, Dowd, Alford, and Trapp’s (2007) notion of transfer agents were applied to understand how the professionals associated with the Transfer Academy (i.e., coordinators, counselors, faculty, administrators) and its related programs and activities, provided students with the relational, structural, cultural, and informational resources they needed to achieve their transfer goals. The findings of the study demonstrated that the Transfer Academy offered active participants the following: unobstructed access to knowledgeable counselors, regular transfer-related information from a credible source, a community of peers that shared their interest in transfer and provided emotional support, regular opportunities to establish meaningful relationships with institutional personnel, and a structured experience that made their transfer process manageable and their transfer goals tangible. With the help of the Transfer Academy, seven of my eight study participants achieved their transfer goals. Many of the students transferred to four-year universities they never thought were possibilities when they joined the program. |
| Keyword | transfer; community colleges; institutional agents; transfer agents; transfer programs |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Rights | Mmeje, Kenechukwu (K.C.) |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-MmejeKenec-890.pdf |
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| Full text | THE TRANSFER ACADEMY: PROVIDING COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS WITH THE INFORMATIONAL, STRUCTURAL, RELATIONAL, AND CULTURAL RESOURCES TO TRANSFER SUCCESSFULLY TO A FOUR-YEAR COLLEGE by Kenechukwu (K.C.) Mmeje ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2012 Copyright 2012 Kenechukwu (K.C.) Mmeje |
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