Power to the Transfer
A theoretical framework that interrogates the role of race, racism, and white supremacy in the shaping of American institutions.
What is critical race theory?
This % of Latino high schoolers are enrolled in some form of higher education.
What is 68.9%?
This type of study was used by Iloh and Tierney as mentioned in their article.
What is a case study/comparative case study?
The admissions policies of community colleges that typically accept all applicants.
What is "open admissions"?
This person created 9 principles to build college culture at the high school level.
Who is McDonough?
When a student transitions from one institution to another with the aim of applying their credits earned at the previous institution.
What is the definition of “transfer”?
"An institutional commitment to ensure that transfer students are equipped w/the knowledge and resources to earn a baccalaureate degree successfully"
What is transfer receptive culture?
The small number of colleges (10), strictly telephone conversations, and researcher bias are all part of this category within the study.
What are limitations?
This type of institution is cited for using aggressive marketing tactics and having fewer admissions criteria, as discussed in the article.
What is a "for-profit college"?
When a student attends a high school and a community college at the same time with
the goal of being able to use their community college credits toward an associate degree or bachelor’s degree.
What is dual credit enrollment?
Vertical, lateral, reverse, and dual credit.
What are the 4 forms of transfer?
This serves as motivation and instills resilience for Latino men in their educational pathways
What is parental guidance/ consejos?
According to the researchers, these two areas shaped the admissions profile of each institution.
What are customer service and breadth of information?
The researchers noted that the present study focuses on this as the unit of analysis, rather than prospective students.
What are institutions?
This culture provides the ideas to students that the process of transferring to be clear and efficient and encourages students to push through endeavors.
What is transfer sending culture?
For the transfers in this class, are we experiencing vertical transfer?
Yes :) (yay us!)
This model considers the assets that students of color bring with them from home to higher education, including aspirational, navigational, social, etc.
What is Yosso's Community Cultural Wealth model?
What are for-profit reps (1) and community college reps (2).
In the context of transfer students, this percentage is that of Latino men from community colleges who are reported to earn a degree or certificate or transfer within three years.
What is 15.4%?
The outcome of this is to who have been historically excluded and disenfranchised by higher education.
What is transfer receptive culture?
This method of transfer sending culture makes it easier for transfers to transfer to another institution.
What is standardizing the transfer process?
These are three recommendations practitioners can enact to aid Latino male transfer success that are embedded through an anti-deficit perspective.
What is Transfer Student Program, Mental Health Support, and Family Integration?
Despite the researchers initial intent being to engage admissions counselors via telephone, they found that this resource in both community and for-profit colleges’ are significant additional pieces of the college-search puzzle.
What are the colleges’ Web sites?
This framework, as discussed in the documents, helps explain how Latino men in community colleges gain capital through social interactions, recognizing both their privileged and oppressed identities.
What is the "Crossover Capital Framework"?
This type of racism can cause self-doubt and major psychological harm over time.
What are microaggresions?