This report analyzes what these five community colleges were doing to support African American/Black student transfer, with special attention paid to how they addressed the previously identified factors—namely counseling, academic probation, and the administration of special programs such as Umoja. This brief highlights key recommendations offered by college practitioners and students from these five colleges to help other colleges better support transfer-motivated African American/ Black community college students. It then links what we heard through conversations with these stakeholders to The RP Group’s Framework for Building Students’ Transfer Capacity, drawing connections between our prior research regarding the motivators of and barriers to transfer for students and the specific experiences of African American/Black students considering transfer.
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