A general summary of NCAA rules and regulations in easy-to-read form is provided for prospective student-athletes, high schools and junior college officials, representatives of NCAA member institutions, and other interested individuals. These guidelines relate primarily to recruiting, eligibility, transfering, and financial aid. (Author/MLW)

This paper summarizes the themes and issues presented at the Community College Research Center seminars between 2001 and 2002: (1) "New Roles of Community Colleges" (October 12, 2001); (2) "Academic Preparedness and Remediation in Community Colleges" (December 7, 2001); (3) "Dual Enrollment in High Schools and Community…

This booklet is a guide to the process of transferring college credits from one institution of higher education to another. First, it identifies the factors that affect college transfer, including college and/or state policies on transfer of credits, college residency requirements, comparability of courses, grade received in a course, and…

Half of all students who begin college in America--and an even higher proportion of underrepresetned minorities--matriculate at community colleges. If the bachelor's degree is a requisite for major social and economic advancement, then transfer must be an essential community college mission. Calculating the transfer rate is important as a measure…

This paper introduces a system of Program Alignment that Community Colleges for International Development, Inc. (CCID) member institutions across Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United States of America can use to facilitate a system of credit transfer. The rationale for this project is drawn from the increasing importance of…

Author briefly restated the intentions of the representatives of the people of Illinois when they created Sangamon State University, interpreted them as intellectual purposes, and delineated a few of the functions important in carrying them out. (Author/RK)

The Coordinated Transfer Application System (COTRANS), a cooperative effort of the Association of American Medical Colleges and the National Board of Medical Examiners, is designed to assist the U.S. citizen who is studying medicine abroad and who wishes to transfer from the foreign medical school to advanced standing in a medical school in the…

Author feels that the move to standardize transfer requirements should be careful not discourage innovation and individualization in junior college journalism courses. (GB)

U.S. students in Britain find that when they return to the States all credits for work completed abroad may not be accepted toward a degree. (HS)

Detailed description and justification of a new effort to improve American higher education grading system. (IR)

The 1998 Bologna declaration attempts to coordinate a system of comparability of degrees and credits across European higher education institutions to improve mobility. The United Kingdom has a number of quality assurance initiatives and is developing credit and qualifications frameworks in response to the declaration. (Contains 17 references.) (SK)

Issues in developing educational policy concerning foreign students in Australia are discussed. It is argued that the economic policy context in which foreign students are received has tended to obscure Australia's liberal democratic values, and that those values must be reasserted so that foreign students can be seen as individuals rather than as…

Each year thousands of students transfer from one postsecondary institution to another. The credit transfer process, to the extent that it delays students' progress, can affect the affordability of postsecondary education and the time it takes students to graduate. Seeking information on the processes and requirements that postsecondary…

Using grounded theory methodology, we examined the experiences of first-generation Latino/a college students. Themes emerged in students' interactions with and perceptions of peers, advisors, and faculty members. A model derived from the data was developed to describe the unique ways first-generation Latino/a students sought information relating…