{"product_id":"9781118682449","title":"Implementing Transfer Associate Degrees: Perspectives From the States: New Directions for Community Colleges, Number 160","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, a convergence of several forces—increased legislative involvement in higher education, governmental and philanthropic pressure to increase postsecondary degree and certificate production, and fiscal belt-tightening at colleges and universities across America—has resulted in efforts to significantly reform community college-to-university transfer and articulation processes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One increasingly popular method of reform is the implementation of transfer associate degrees: statewide pathways or degree programs that allow students to both earn an associate degree from a community college and transfer seamlessly into a state university with junior status. This volume of \u003ci\u003eNew Directions for Community Colleges\u003c\/i\u003e outlines the elements of effective transfer associate degrees and explores their implementation in six states.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the 160th volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Essential to the professional libraries of presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other leaders in today's open-door institutions, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Directions for Community Colleges\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e provides expert guidance in meeting the challenges of their distinctive and expanding educational mission.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078178062576,"sku":"9781118682449","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781118682449_p0.jpg?v=1763695070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781118682449","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}