Bridges or Barriers? How Interactions between Individuals and Institutions Condition Community College Transfer

Huriya Jabbar, Lauren Schudde, Marisol Garza and Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley

The Journal of Higher Education, 2022, vol. 93, issue 3, 375-398

Abstract: Institutional practices and conditions at community colleges can improve rates of transfer, as can access to transfer student capital. However, we know little about how institutions attempt to build students’ transfer capital, or about students’ experiences within community colleges as they accumulate transfer capital. In this paper, we examine how students’ institutional experiences, particularly their engagement with student supports at community colleges and transfer destinations, influence their understanding of, and ability to navigate, the transfer process. We view the accumulation of transfer student capital as an interactionist model between the students and their institution, where students’ transfer knowledge and success is conditioned by an interaction between their background and institutional conditions. We draw on longitudinal qualitative interview data with transfer-intending community college students over the course of 3 years to understand how students access, receive, and accumulate transfer capital as they work toward their educational goals. By leveraging student experiences, our study can inform community colleges and transfer destinations about practices and policies interpreted as most effective from the perspective of students. Our work also connects to broader conversations about how institutions reproduce, ameliorate, or exacerbate inequalities based on student background.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2021.1953339

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