Frankie Santos Laanan received his B.A. degree (1993) in political science, M.A. (1994) and Ph.D. (1998) degrees in higher education and organizational change from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on college access, college impact, minority students’ pathway to the baccalaureate and beyond, impact of community colleges on society and individuals.
Quotes for my paper:
Transfer Student Adjustment by Frankie Santos Laanan
"Keeley and House (2003) and Townsend (1993, 1995) have written that many students who transfer from community colleges to four year institutions have trouble adjusting to the rigorous academic standards and are often faced with numerous other challenges upon enrolling in four year institutions."
"The term transfer shock has been used to characterize the temporary dip in transfer students' academic performance ( or GPA) in the first or second semester after transferring (Hills, 1965; Nolan and Hall, 1978; Webb, 1971; Williams, 1973)."
"One out of four community college students indicated in 1989-90 that they were working toward a bachelor's degree (prospective transfers). Of this group, 39 percent transferred directly to a four-year institution by 1994.
"... transfer students should expect to suffer an appreciable drop in grades in the first semester after transfer (Hills, 1965)"
"... native students as a group are shown to perform better than the transfer students (Hills, 1965)"
"...students will most likely encounter greater difficulty than native students and can expect to take longer to graduate (Hills, 1965)."
"... both groups of transfer students (from four-year institutions and community colleges) were more likely to end up on academic probation than native students were (Graham and Dallan, 1986)"
"...transitional trauma, defined as the lebel of alienation a student experiences when unfamiliar with the norms, values, and expectations at the four year institution ( Bennett and Okinaka, 1990)"
"The size of the institution- for example, the size of the student body or its faculty - will contribute to students feelings of anonymity, sense of community, or isolation (Chickering and Reisser, 1993)
Making the Transition to the Senior Institution by Frankie Santos Laanan and Latrice E. Eggleston
"At least one out of five community college students transfer. Transfer student rates vary between 22 and 25 percent nationally among community colleges (Cohen, 1993)"
"New student orientation programs should be developed specifically to help transfer students navigate institutional structures and campus community. There is a strong need for these programs to be exclusive to tranfers."
"Because of issues of course articulation and selection, registration for transfer students is often difficult."
"... senior institutions are not meeting the needs of transfer students."
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