Power to the Transfer

DIMPAL JAIN is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at California State University, Northridge.SANTIAGO N. BERNAL MELENDEZ is the Assistant Director for UCLA’s Center for Community College Partnerships.ALFRED R. HERRERA is the Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Partnerships and Director for UCLA’s Center for Community College Partnerships.

• Contents Figures and Tables Foreword, by Daniel Solórzano Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1. Assessing the Transfer Landscape and Broadening Diverse Student Participation Chapter 2. Transfer Receptviy Chapter 3. Prioritizing the Transfer Student of Color Experience in the Pretransfer Process Chapter 4. Creating and Providing Intersectional Support in the Posttransfer Process Chapter 5. Lessons Learned from a Transfer Receptive Culture References Index

The authors of Power to the Transfer are well-known and tenacious warriors of the community college transfer movement. Their book addresses a serious gap in the scholarship of the transfer function: color-blindness. Community colleges have always been represented as an exemplar of the flexibility and accessibility that is attributed to American higher education. The folklore of community colleges is that students can transfer to their local state college, a highly selective college, or a top-tier research university. The reality is that for the Black, Latinx, and Native American students, for whom community colleges are their first and only choice, few successfully transfer despite high aspirations. This book can help university leaders build transfer cultures that are racially conscious, and it can help students, staff, and faculty learn to become builders of racially conscious transfer receptive cultures. — Estela Mara Bensimon, Dean’s Professor in Educational Equity, and Founding Director, Center for Urban Education, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California