Every year, hundreds of thousands of students start at community colleges hoping to transfer to a university later. It’s advertised as a cheaper path to a bachelor’s degree. Yet the reality is rarely that simple.
Students sit in the mathematics lecture for the first-year students of the Bachelor of Economics in the Audimax at the University of Hanover. For students, professors and lecturers, everyday university life begins again on Monday at many universitiesFirst came the good news. After taking classes at a community college, Ricki Korba was admitted to California State University, Bakersfield, as a transfer student.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of students start at community colleges hoping to transfer to a university later. It’s advertised as a cheaper path to a bachelor’s degree, an education hack in aYet the reality is rarely that simple.
Korba thought she was taking the right classes at Columbia College, a community college in Sonora. She worked with a counselor and used an online catalog showing which courses were supposed to transfer to CSU schools. Stories like Korba’s aren’t uncommon, especially in California, which has long struggled to connect its 116 community colleges to more than 30 public universities.
"Credit loss happens, but it’s something we’ve been working hard on for a long time," said Lori Beth Way, dean of undergraduate education at SFSU.
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