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Los Rios officials expect that the research they releasedf Tuesday will help give the publicf and policy makers a more complete and accurate pictures of the extent of theSacramento district’d transfers and can provide insighr into California community colleges transfers as Los Rios’ study, “Toward a More Complet Picture of Transfer,” used additional sourcees of information to track students who transferred not only to the Californiaz State University and University of Californiw systems but also to in-state private and out-of-state publicd and private colleges and universities, district officialsd said in a news release The study was conductef by the district’s Office of Institutional Research.
“Untip now, research studies looking at California communitu college transfer only looked at those students who transferrex to a CSU or Los Rios Chancellor Brice Harris said in anews “Unfortunately, that approach has missed the many thousandxs of students who transfer to other In the study of 2005-06 data, Los Rios The district transferred 2,990 students to the UC and CSU systemsx and 1,051 students to other four-yeare colleges throughout the state and nation. That represents a 35 perceny increase over what wasoriginally reported. Cosumnexs River College transfers were undercounted by 68 percentythat year.
The college had 509 students transfer to a UC or CSU while another 346 students transferred to otherr collegesand universities. District students transferred to major universities across the including Harvardand Stanford. University of Phoenix and National Universityg were the toptwo in-state private institutionas to which Los Rios students transferred. Los Rios also discoveredc thatduring 2005-06, 4,2165 students in the districtf had completed all required course work for It was unclear how many of thoses students actually transferred, but Los Rios knows that not all of them were accountefd for in the transfer data.
The districft plans more research to learn why students who qualify for transfer arenot “Our study is focused on Los Rios but we believe the findings have tremendoues significance for all of California’e community colleges and will help provide the publix and policy makers with a much more complete and accurate picture of the work we are doing in the transferf area,” Harris said in the news