Tuesday, February 10, 2015
New Semester - Research Blog #1 - #2 scouting the territory (comments)
I would like to address the subject of transfer students in 4 year universities. What types of problems they face and how disadvantageous is their situation, when they start new school. Average GPA drop of a transfer student in Rutgers University is 0.7 . So if a 4.0 student transfers to Rutgers after first semester he or she has 3.2 GPA. It is a quite overwhelming and terrifying number. Therefore, I would like to deeply examine this issue, and help out my fellow students in adapting to the new environment.
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I have had several students address the transfer student issue over the years:
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Most emphasize the challenges facing community college students, both at their own schools (where graduation rates are low -- though new stats may challenge that view: http://hechingerreport.org/new-figures-suggest-community-college-grad-rates-higher-than-thought/) and once they transfer. The first paper I got on the subject suggested that even the Stars program in NJ was counter-productive, since strong students will have better long term success if they just go directly to four-year schools. One argued that students lose credits along the way and lose time, and time is money.... I personally can say that a lot of transfer students at Rutgers are challenged with writing, mostly because their English courses at community colleges did not prepare them for the rigor of the four-year schools. We even created a special course -- College Writing and Research (355:301) -- to help transfer students adjust to 4-year expectations.
You could look at programs to help transfer students adjust.
I want to mainly look at transfer students from community college that also come from immigrant family. They usually face far more challenges then regular U.S. high school graduates. The transfer process itself is unbearably challenging, not to mansion the unnecessary ESL curses colleges force student to take in order to "improve their writing". I want to look at issue of non-credit prerequisite rudimentary classes that transfer student have to take in order to take classes they need. I found some articles of latino and Indian students facing this issue. But I am not sure which one I want to look at . Currently I am still browsing for library articles and books and trying to get much specific source.
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