 Community
Colleges:
Increasing the
Transfer Rate,
What Works?
Los Angeles CCD
 Armida Ornelas
 Alexa Victoriano
 Francisco Rodriguez
AAHHE March 10, 2017
Necessary ingredients to improve
the transfer rate
• Aspiration
• Inspiration
• Perspiration
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NATIONAL PICTURE
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The California
Community
Colleges
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EDUCATION TRENDS & ISSUES
IN LOS ANGELES
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Accountability Movement
Achievement/Opportunity Gap
Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
Charter School Movement
Chronic Underfunding
from State
Collective Bargaining/Unions
Crisis in Public Confidence
Demographic Shifts
English-language Learners
Leadership Turnover:
Retirements & Succession
Planning
Overregulation
• Public School and Higher
Education Financing
• Poverty of School Children and
College Students
• Recovery from Disinvestment
Caused by Great Recession
• Rising Heath & Benefits Costs
• School/College Board Politics
• Teacher/Faculty Preparation
• Testing to the Standards
• Underpreparedness of
Students
• Voter Fatigue
ENROLLMENTS BY COLLEGE
Los Angeles City College
31,385
East Los Angeles College
55,118
Los Angeles Harbor College
13,517
Los Angeles Mission College
15,143
Los Angeles Pierce College
31,331
Los Angeles Southwest College
12,282
Los Angeles Trade-Technical College
23,179
Los Angeles Valley College
27,880
West Los Angeles College
14,856
TOTAL ENROLLMENTS:
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225,942
LACCD STUDENT PROFILE
56.7%
Latino
11.1%
African-American
10.0%
Asian/Pacific Islander
14.9%
White
22.5%
Non-Native English speaking
51%
Below the poverty line
18%
From homes where parents received only elementary education
27.5%
Full Time Students
72.5%
Part Time Students
EDUCATIONAL GOALS
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17.4%
Vocational
49.5%
Transfer
15.3%
General Education
4.1%
Transitional
13.8%
Undecided
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LACCD Transfers
7,434
6,608
5,585
8,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
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2012-2013
2013-2014
2014-2015
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LACCD Transfers by Type of 4-Year Institution: 2014-15
In-State-Private
(ISP), 965 (13%)
University of
California, 954
(13%)
Out-of-State
(OOS), 770
(10%)
California State
University, 4,745
(64%)
IDEAS ON INCREASING THE TRANSFER RATE
Early outreach with P12, communities and families
Streamline application and on-boarding process
Design, align and refine student support services, transfer
counseling and advising for students
Create an institutional transfer culture
Nurture a positive student mindset for transfer
Create an institutional transfer culture
Increase course-to-course articulation with 4-year universities
Mandate transfer as state funding and legislative priority
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Clarify and strengthen transfer pathways
Pierce College Center for the Sciences
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CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN TRANSFER
Address pervasive remedial/basic skills education gaps
Incentivize full-time enrollment
Strengthen Associate Degrees for Transfer (ADT)
Increase more and better course articulation with 4-year institutions
Make transfer institution-wide responsibility
Hire, promote individuals who reflect the diversity and values of institution
Increase baccalaureate degree opportunities at community colleges
Strengthen ties between technical education and transfer education
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Better understand the connection between poor health, poverty and
educational attainment
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FINAL THOUGHT
“Change will not come if we
wait for some other person
or if we wait for some other
time. We are the ones
we’ve been waiting for.”
Thank you for being that one.
Uds. son el
orgullo y la
esperanza
de nuestra
comunidad.
GRACIAS!