Lit Review #1

Zamani, Eboni M. "Institutional Responses to Barriers to the Transfer Process." New Directions for Community Colleges.114 (2001): 15. Print.

Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher is Professor of Educational Leadership and Coordinator of the Community College Leadership Program in the Department of Leadership and Counseling at Eastern Michigan University. She holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration with a specialization in community college leadership and educational evaluation from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Zamani-Gallaher’s teaching, research, and consulting activities largely include psychosocial adjustment and transition of marginalized collegians, transfer, access policies, women in leadership, and institutional practices affecting work and family balance. 

The article is called Institutional Responses to Barriers to the Transfer Process. In this article there are many quotes I could use that relate to my paper. 

Here are some examples:

"Low-income and non-Asian minority students have lower transfer and program completion rates, compared with their white counterparts from families with higher annual income"

"The lack of financial resources is one of many barriers facing community college students who are attending, persisting, and, in some cases, ultimately transferring to four-year institutions"

"Two-year students at commuter campuses are typically on campus less often than are students at four-year institutions because of work responsibilities; they attempt fewer credit hours and they interact with faculty members less as a result of residing away from the college"

"It is estimated that residential students are 43 percent more likely to persist and complete degree requirements than are commuter student" 

"In addition to institutional type, poor student transitions between two- and four-year institutions often reflect a lack of student-college fit"

"Community colleges primarily face the difficulty of determining how to best facilitate student transfer to senior-level postsecondary institutions"

These quotes give some great examples of what kind of barriers students face when transferring from a community college to a four-year institution.