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Widening and Wandering the Short Road to Success: The Louisiana Transfer Degree Guarantee
Author(s) -
Cope Kevin L.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
new directions for community colleges
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1536-0733
pISSN - 0194-3081
DOI - 10.1002/cc.20036
Subject(s) - degree (music) , state (computer science) , transfer (computing) , process (computing) , political science , public relations , sociology , computer science , physics , algorithm , parallel computing , acoustics , operating system
This chapter analyzes the complex and often surprising process by which Louisiana, a small state with four higher education systems, deployed a transfer degree program in a scant two years. The author reviews the full range of challenges, from social to curricular to promotional, that were overcome and makes recommendations concerning the development of transfer degree programs under both normal and extreme or unusual circumstances.