Partnership between Jackson College, Wayne State aims to help students transfer, complete degrees
Updated Jan 26, 2021;
Posted Jan 26, 2021
Jackson College will participate with Wayne State University in an Equity Transfer Initiative to improve transfer success.MLive Media Group
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JACKSON, MI - Jackson College is participating with Wayne State University in a new effort to improve transfer success.
The two-year Equity Transfer Initiative, led by the American Association of Community Colleges, awards up to $27,500 to partnerships to increase transfer and completion for underrepresented student populations, including Blacks, Hispanics, adult and first-generation learners.
The goal of the initiative is to help remove barriers and enhance completion of degrees that lead to family-sustaining wages, college officials said.
Oklahoma State University is partnering with Northern Oklahoma College to boost completion rates for underrepresented students.
It comes as part of an initiative to increase transfer rates for minority, first-generation and adult students through partnerships between community colleges and universities.
Currently, the Equity Transfer Initiative includes 16 partnerships from 13 states involving 17 community colleges and 19 universities.
The ETI aims to serve 6,000 students over the two-year project period.
ECMC Foundation launches Catalyzing Transfer Initiative
Nearly $4.5M funding commitment aims to increase successful transfer of postsecondary credits and timely bachelor degree completion
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ ECMC Foundation announced today the launch of the Catalyzing Transfer Initiative (CTI), a national shared learning and collaboration effort between high-impact non-profit organizations that aims to build, manage, and activate new ways to increase successful transfer of postsecondary credits and timely bachelor degree completion among marginalized racial and ethnic groups.
Only 13 percent of students who start at community college earn a bachelor s degree within six years (source: National Center for Education Statistics). As students transfer, their credits don t always follow. The CTI was created to address the challenges students face when attempting to transfer their credits to a four-year prog