Discredited : power, privilege, and community college transfer / Lauren Schudde, Huriya Jabbar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schudde, Lauren, author.

Jabbar, Huriya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational mobility--United States.

Educational mobility.

Community colleges--United States.

Community colleges.

Students, Transfer of--United States.

Students, Transfer of.

Education, Higher--United States--Sociological aspects.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

xiii, 178 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2024]

Summary:

"An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions-and a blueprint for process reform In Discredited, education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions. Summarizing the key challenges of various transfer pathways, Schudde and Jabbar show how the current decentralized, bureaucracy-ridden, and often confusing process undermines equity and access in higher education. They illustrate how transfer success is closely tied to how educational institutions disseminate information about credit portability, especially for vertical transfer between community colleges and destination universities, in which prospective transfer students often confront hidden curricula and unfounded biases about their academic preparedness. This deeply considered work is grounded in hundreds of interviews of students and personnel, data from a six-year longitudinal study in Texas, and a synthesis of five decades of research on college transfer. Presenting a field perspective, Schudde and Jabbar use strategic action fields, a framework that considers how rules and norms are maintained in an existing power structure, to examine the political-ecological contexts in which transfer-intending students and transfer-related college personnel interact within and across organizations. They frame transfer policy as a complex public higher education issue rather than an isolated community college problem. Schudde and Jabbar call for transfer reform and offer insight into how transfer outcomes could be improved through better transparency, centralized policy, and even government intervention"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Shifting the Gaze: Moving from an Organizational to a Field-Level Perspective on College Transfer

Privileged Positions Held by University Actors

Implementers and Challengers in the Community College System

Students as Implementers

Shifting the Field of Transfer: Implications and Steps Forward

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781682539040

1682539040

OCLC:

1417197985