Community Colleges: Publications Archive

These publications highlight critical issues that affect community colleges. Requires Adobe Reader (latest version recommended).

• Destinations of Choice Working Paper Series.
• Improving Student Transfer from Community Colleges to Four-Year Institutions – The Perspectives of Leaders from Baccalaureate-Granting Institutions (pdf/1.4M) (Stephen J. Handel, The College Board, July, 2011)
• “Helping Academic Advisers Become Assessment and Placement Advocates for Their Students.”
  (Stephen J. Handel, The Mentor: An Academic Advising Journal, November 17, 2010)
• “Silent Partners in Transfer Admissions.”
  (Stephen J. Handel, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 19, 2010)
• “Trustees & Transfer” (.pdf/98KB).
  (Stephen J. Handel, Community College Trustee Quarterly, Fall 2010)
• “Transfer and the Part-Time Student: The Gulf Separating Community Colleges and Selective Universities.” (Stephen J. Handel, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, June 2009).
• “Strengthening the Nation by Narrowing the Gap: Community Colleges Key to America's Economic Growth” (.pdf/620KB).
  (Stephen J. Handel and James Montoya, Community College Journal, December 2008/January 2009).
• “A New Educational Imperative for a New Global Century” (.pdf/73KB).
  (Ronald Williams and Stephen J. Handel, Global Themes in Vocational Education and Training, 2008).
• “Aid and Advocacy – Why Community College Transfer Students Do Not Apply for Financial Aid and How Counselors Can Help Get Them in the Game” (.pdf/2.3MB).
  (Stephen J. Handel, Journal of College Admission. 2008).
• “Rethinking the Role of Community Colleges: A Public Conversation” (.pdf/307KB).
  (Stephen J. Handel, Community College Trustee Quarterly, Spring 2008).
• “Transfer Students Apply to College Too: How Come We Don't Help Them?” (.pdf/34KB).
  (Stephen J. Handel, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 26, 2007).
• “Second Chance not Second Class: A Blueprint for Four-Year Institutions Interested in Community College Transfer Students”
  (Stephen J. Handel, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, September/October 2007).
• “Tutoring Trustees” (.pdf/38KB).
  (Stephen J. Handel, Community College Trustee Quarterly, Fall 2006).
• “Academic Cultures of Community Colleges and Selective Four-Year Institutions: The "Transfer-Going" Context in California” (.pdf/3.29 MB).
  (Plenary remarks by Stephen J. Handel at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation National Forum, Washington DC, June 28, 2006).
• “Strengthening the High School-to-Community College Transition” (.pdf/277KB).
  (Stephen J. Handel, Community College Trustee Quarterly, Winter 2006).
• “Pursuing Higher Education Access and Achievement: Case Studies in the Development of "Transfer-Going" Cultures” (.pdf/317KB).
  (Paper prepared by Stephen J. Handel and Alfred Herrera for the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation National Forum, Washington DC, June 28-29, 2006).
• “Preparing High School Students for Community College Success” (.pdf/357KB).
  (Stephen J. Handel, Community College Trustee Quarterly, Fall 2005).
• "The Effectiveness of the Transfer Path for Educationally Disadvantaged Students" (Chapter 8 in Expanding Opportunities in Higher Education: Leveraging Promise, SUNY Press, 2006).

Related Downloads

• Programs and Services for Community College Educators (pdf/4.37M)
• Community Colleges and the College Board — Partners for Access, Equity and Success (pdf/188.72K)

Contact

The College Board’s National Office of Community College Initiatives
Stephen J. Handel
Email: shandel@collegeboard.org