Six in 10 California community college students give up transfer plans, never making it to universities
As California’s universities cut back slots for incoming freshman, they are still touting one route to a bachelor’s degree that remains wide open: Start off at a community college and then transfer to UC or CSU. But a new analysis shows that fewer than half the students who undertake that path ever reach their goal, waylaid by financial, personal and procedural potholes. Only 40 percent of California’s degree-seeking students are ready to transfer to universities after community college, according to the state’s latest annual accountability report for community colleges.
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by Lisa M. Krieger, The San Jose Mercury News.