Today I continue doing preliminary research and reading for my honors thesis on transfer students. Right now I’m working on my first heading Transfer Student Identity and it entails essentially reading and understanding the last fourty years of books, articles, and statistics on transfer students and community colleges.
So what have I learned so far? Well transfer students are students who transfer from one postsecondary institution to another. This includes vertical (2-year to 4-year) and lateral (4-year to another 4-year) and other interpretations as well. Transfer students are demographically more representative of women, and racial minorities, as well as students from lower and middle-lower socioeconomic classes. This is largely because of the development of the community college in the united states to be consistently more accessible to all students; this includes financial aid, cultural and community resources, and the fact that community colleges are usually more local to individuals (this is an important point because wealth distribution as well as elite institution distribution is disproportionate in the U.S. and is more clustered in certain geographic areas).
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