Objectives
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Foster a partnership among institutions that results in collaborative, effective, and sustainable programming
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Facilitate infrastructural, instructional, and curricular reform to smooth transitions from community colleges to four-year institutions
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Develop a Transfer Readiness Assessment (TRA) to direct students along individualized, goal-oriented paths
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Assure that transferred students are connected with appropriate LSAMP programming
Activities
The Community College Task Force determines strategies and their implementation for improving URM STEM pathways from two-year to four-year institutions. These strategies include:
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Collaborative programming between two-year and four-year institutions
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Use of the Transfer Planning Tool at partner community colleges
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Transfer readiness assessment research
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Smoothing transitions between two-year and four-year institutions
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Collaborations with the Ohio Department of Higher Education, particularly the Ohio Guarantee Transfer Program
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Collaborations with the Ohio Transfer Council