Transfer Student Engagement: Characteristics of the Sending Institution That Influence Post-Transfer Engagement

• In Event: 52.040 - Community College Pipeline: Understanding Needs and Challenges to Improve Student Success

Abstract

Transfer students often come from lower-income backgrounds, fail engage post-transfer, and graduate at lower rates than their native peers. Engagement is recognized as a factor connected to college student success. This study examines a business college cohort to determine the connections between pre-transfer student and school characteristics, post-transfer financial aid, and post-transfer student engagement. Using multiple linear regression, the study finds that ethnicity, as well as timing and type of financial aid, associate with levels of post-transfer engagement.

Author

• Kathryn Wheatley, University of Houston