ERIC ED380153: Frederick Community College Transfer Tracking System and Successful Transfer Survey, Volume II, Fall 1992-Spring 1994.

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Holton, James M.
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Frederick Community College Transfer Tracking System
TITLE
and Successful Transfer Survey, Volume II, Fall
1992-Spring 1994.
Frederick Community Coll., Md.
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DESCRIPTORS
(Education); *College Outcomes Assessment; *College
Transfer Students; Community Colleges; Longitudinal
Studies; Participant Satisfaction; *Program
Effectiveness; *Student Attitudes; Two Year
Colleges
*Frederick Community College MD; *Transfer Rates
IDENTIFIERS
(College)
ABSTRACT
The Transfer Tracking System at Maryland's Frederick
is designed to monitor the effectiveness of
Community College (FCC)
the college's transfer function by keeping track of student requests
for transcripts to be sent to other institutions.. Using this system,
a study was undertaken at FCC to determine outcomes for the college's
transfer function fcr 1992-94 by requesting confirmation of
enrollment from receiving institutions and surveying students who
transferred from the college regarding their experiences. From
1992-93, 2,065 transcripts were sent, while 441 students were
confirmed as having successfully transferred. For 1993-94, 2,107
transcripts were sent and 465 students were confirmed as having
transferred. For 1994, the transfer rate was calculated at 34.5%
based on the number of students indicating intent to transfer,
earning at least 12 credits in total unduplicated credit enrollment,
and transferring successfully. Finally, averaged findings from annual
surveys conducted from 1990-91 to 1993-94 included the following:
(1)
for all 4 years, the average age of the transfer students was 24.9
(2) 49.5% had
years old, 54.4% were female, and 94.2% were White;
(3) 96.6% were
earned an associate degree prior to transfer;
satisfied or very satisfied with their academic program, 82%
expressed satisfaction with academic advising, and 73% expressed
(4) 48.7% of the
satisfaction with specific transfer advising at FCC;
transfers reported losing no credits in transfer and 78% lost fewer
1 in 6 reported receiving financial
than 7 credits; and (5)
assistance at their new institution based on scholastic achievement
at FCC. (Includes data tables and the survey instrument.)
(KP)
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FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE
TRANSFER TRACKING SYSTEM AND
SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER SURVEY
VOLUME II
FALL 1992-SPRING 1994
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FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE
TRANSFER TRACKING SYSTEM AND
SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER SURVEY
VOLUME II
FALL 1992 - SPRING 1994
JAMES M. HOLTON
ADMISSIONS/REGISTRATION OFFICE
FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE
TRANSFER TRACKING SYSTEM AND
SUCCESSFUL TRANSFER SURVEY
VOLUME II
FALL 1992 - SPRING 1994
The Transfer Tracking System and the Successful Transfer Survey are now in their fourth
year. The System has tracked over one thousand former FCC students to nearly two hundred
different four-year colleges and universities across the United States and even to some
foreign countries.
The Successful Transfer Survey has been completed and returned by over five-
hundred transfer students. This data has been compiled and distributed on a college, state,
and nationwide basis.
We can be assured that there is no community college in the United States that
publishes such an extensive and complete profile of the characteristics of its transfer students
over time as does Frederick Community College.
The accumulation of data from the System and the Survey has brought into clearer
focus the characteristics of our transfer students and enables us to answer some very critical
questions about our transfer function.
For example, at FCC we know with a high degree of confidence that:
Three out of four of our transfer students will transfer to 10 colleges:
Shepherd
Towson
Hood
Frostburg
UMCP
UMBC
Mt. St. Mary's
UMUC
Salisbury
West Virginia Univ.
About one out of two will transfer to just four:
Frostburg
Shepherd
Towson
Hood
4
2
About one-half of all of our successful transfer students will have earned the AA
degree before transfer.
The average FCC GPA of the successful transfer student will be approximately 3.10.
Nearly one out of every six of FCC's successful transfer students will be awarded a
scholarship from the four-year school based on academic achievement at FCC and
that the average award will be about $3,000.
Transfer to "prestigious," highly-selective colleges and universities by FCC students
is a rare occurrence.
Over 95% of FCC's transfer students are satisfied with the academic preparation for
transfer they received at FCC and feel that their academic preparation was
related to their major at the transfer college.
Our typical transfer student will accumulate about 50 credits and will spend
five semesters at FCC before transferring.
A little less than one-third of our transfer students will live in college housing their
first semester after transfer.
The most popular majors for FCC transfer students at four-year colleges will be in the
departments of Business/Management (28%), Social/Behavioral Sciences
(20%), and Education (14%).
About one-half of all of our transfer students will report losing no credits in transfer
and about 80% report losing six or fewer.
The average age of the FCC transfer student is about 25 and a slight majority are
females.
3
About 6% of our transfer students are minorities; 3% are African-American.
There is considerable evidence of gender-grouping by our transfer students into the
areas of Education by females and into Engineering/Architectural/Technical/
Physical/Computer Sciences by males.
Our transfer rate, or percentage of those students enrolled in a given academic year
who have declared their intention to transfer and have accumulated at least
twelve credits and actually transferred successfully to a four-year college or
university, is 35%.
The charts and analyses that follow are a summary from school years 1992-93 and
1993-94. The Fall 1990 through the Spring 1992 semesters can be found in the first volume
of Assessing the Transfer Function. Copies of volume one of this publication is available
from the Admissions/Registration Office.
Results of Confirmed Transfer Activity Fall 1992/Spring 1993
No. of
No. of
No. of FCC
Fall&
Reverse
Cohen
Spring
Transcripts
Transfers* Transfers**
Total
Sent
Primary Study Institutions
(All in Maryland except
as noted)
70
Hood College
160
51
19
46
Towson State University
58
12
129
50
Frostburg State University
9
41
131
44
6
Univ. of Maryland College Park
38
112
29
6
23
Shepherd/ College (W.VA)
133
27
Univ. of Maryland Balt. Co.
72
21
6
23
Mt. St. Mary's College
44
18
5
22
Salisbury State University
6
16
56
Univ. of Maryland Univ. Coll.
6
46
12
6
0
9
9
West Virginia University (W.VA)
31
0
Capitol College
7
7
10
4
24
Shippensburg University (PA)
3
1
4
Western Maryland College
19
3
1
George Mason University (VA)
2
7
3
1
Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore
2
37
3
1
0
2
2
Embry-Riddle (Flo 1
5
2
Radford University (VA)
8
1
1
University of Baltimore
2
2 0
8
0
2
Virginia Tech. (VA)
2
15
0
James Madison University (VA)
10
1
1
0
St. Mary's College of MD
0
0
8
374
294
80
1065
Sub Total
67
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Miscellaneous Institutions
1000
13
441
348
93
2065
GRAND TOTAL
Number of FCC transfers registering at receiving institution who met Cohen
*
transfer criteria.
** Number of FCC transfers registering at receiving institution who met Cohen
transfer criteria but who attended another college prior to enrolling at FCC.
5
Fall 1993/Spring 1994
Results of Confirmed Transfer Activity
No. of
Fall&
No. of
No. of FCC
Spring
Reverse
Cohen
Transcripts
Total
Transfers**
Transfers*
Sent
Primary Study Institutions
(All in Maryland except
as noted)
72
31
41
158
Hood College
55
6
49
124
Shepherd College (W.VA)
46
38
8
125
Frostburg State University
44
9
35
110
Towson State University
33
27
6
75
Univ. of Maryland Balt. Co.
31
28
3
109
Univ. of Maryland College Park
20
20
0
68
Salisbury State University
18
16
33
2 -,
Mt. St. Mary's College
16
5
11
39
Univ. of Maryland Univ. Coll.
9
0
9
35
West Virginia University (W.VA)
6
5
1
33
Shippensburg University (PA)
6
2
4
11
University of Baltimore
6
5
49
Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore
1
0
3
3
7
Capitol College
3
0
3
14
Virginia Tech. (VA)
3
2
15
1
Western Maryland College
2
15
1
James Madison University (VA)
1
0
0
0
7
Embry-Riddle (Fla.)
0
0
0
6
George Mason University (VA)
0
0
0
7
Radford University (VA)
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0
0
St. Mary's College of MD
5
373
80
293
1045
Sub Total
92
19
73
1062
Miscellaneous Institutions
465
99
366
2107
GRAND TOTAL
receiving institution who met Cohen
Number of FCC transfers registering at
*
transfer criteria.
Cohen
registering at receiving institution who met
** Number of FCC transfers
FCC.
another college prior to enrolling at
transfer criteria but who attended
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Ranking of
Schools
Top Ten TranSfer
:1990-1994
1993-94
1992-93
1991-92
1990-91
Hood
Hood
Hood
Hood
1
Towson
Shepherd
Towson
Frostburg
2
Frostburg
Frostburg
Shepherd
Towson
3
Towson
UMCP
UMCP
UMCP
4
UMBC
Shepherd
UMBC
Shepherd
5
UMCP
tIMBC
Frostburg
UMBC
6
Salisbury
Mt. St. Mary's
7
Mt. St. Mary's
UMUC
8
UMUC
UMUC
UMUC
Salisbury
9
WVU
WVU
WVU
WVU
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