Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Carnegie, Helmsley-funded Report: Fewer than 1 in 7 Community College Students Get Bachelor’s Degree
Low-income students who transfer from community colleges to four-year colleges are less likely to get a degree than their wealthier peers, a new report shows. But in a sign of hope, their success varies dramatically by state and by college.
“It means that demography is not destiny,” said Davis Jenkins, one of the report’s authors and a senior research associate at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. “If we care about upward social mobility, then we need to pay attention to transfer students.”
Nationally, just 36 percent of low-income transfer students complete a B.A. compared with 44 percent of middle and upper income students. . .