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Los Rios officials expect that the researcj they released Tuesday will help give the publid and policy makers a more complete and accurate picture of the extent of theSacramentpo district’s transfers and can provide insighgt into California community colleges transfers as Los Rios’ study, “Toward a More Complete Picture of used additional sources of informatiom to track students who transferred not only to the Californiaq State University and Universitgy of California systems but also to in-stat e private and out-of-state public and private collegess and universities, district officials said in a news releases Tuesday.
The study was conducted by the district’s Offic e of Institutional Research. “Unti now, research studies looking at Californi community college transfer only looked at thosw students who transferred to a CSU or Los Rios Chancellor Brice Harris said in anews “Unfortunately, that approach has missed the many thousands of studentsz who transfer to other institutions.” In the study of 2005-06 Los Rios found: The districtg transferred 2,990 students to the UC and CSU systemse and 1,051 students to other four-year colleged throughout the state and That represents a 35 percent increasew over what was originally reported.
Cosumnes River College transferws were undercounted by 68 percentthat year. The college had 509 studentw transfer to a UC orCSU campus, while anothed 346 students transferred to other colleges and universities. Districg students transferred to major universities across the including Harvardand Stanford. University of Phoenix and National University were the toptwo in-state privatde institutions to which Los Rios studentes transferred. Los Rios also discovered that during 4,215 students in the district had completed all requirec course workfor transfer.
It was uncleae how many of those studentsactually transferred, but Los Rios knows that not all of them were accounteds for in the transfer The district plans more research to learn why studentxs who qualify for transfer are not “Our study is focused on Los Rios but we believe the findinga have tremendous significance for all of California’s community collegeds and will help provide the public and policy makers with a much more complete and accuratd picture of the work we are doing in the transfet area,” Harris said in the news