COVID-19 Transfer, Mobility, and Progress: Fall 2020 Final Report. Second in the Series

Even before the pandemic turned the higher education landscape on its head, many college students intending to transfer struggled to manage the complexities of available transfer options, a task particularly daunting for underrepresented student groups. Early disruptions in institutional reopening p...

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Published inNational Student Clearinghouse
Main Authors Causey, J, Harnack-Eber, A, Lang, R, Liu, Q, Ryu, M, Shapiro, D
Format Report
LanguageEnglish
Published National Student Clearinghouse Research Center 21.12.2020
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Barriers
College Freshmen
College Transfer Students
COVID-19
Enrollment
Enrollment Trends
Ethnicity
Gender Differences
Geographic Location
Institutional Characteristics
Pandemics
Racial Differences
Reentry Students
Student Mobility
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:Even before the pandemic turned the higher education landscape on its head, many college students intending to transfer struggled to manage the complexities of available transfer options, a task particularly daunting for underrepresented student groups. Early disruptions in institutional reopening plans due to COVID-19, coupled with the disparate economic and health impacts of the virus across different populations, make navigating these transfer options even more difficult. Moreover, typical pathways of transfer and mobility may be altered due to student concerns borne out of the pandemic, related to family finances, health, childcare, or a sudden need to move closer to home, circumstances that may affect the rate at which students transfer from four-year to two-year colleges (reverse transfer), for example, or within institutional sectors (lateral transfer). This research series attempts to quantify how the transfer and enrollment gaps by race and ethnicity and other student characteristics that existed before the pandemic may be affected by these disruptions. As the second in the series, this follow-up issue updates the results from the first look fall 2020 report that depicted student mobility as of September 24. As the fall semester is nearing its end, with more colleges reporting as of November 19, 2020, this report provides a more complete picture of the fall 2020 student transfer patterns that are attributable to the effects of COVID-19. [For "COVID-19 Transfer, Mobility, and Progress: First Look Fall 2020 Report. First in the Series," see ED609850.]