State sifting through college transfer requirements
Published: Saturday, Mar. 13, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
It's supposed to be the path to an affordable, high-quality education: attend a Californiacommunity college for two years, then transfer to one of the state's public universities.
In reality, though, few community collegestudents who set out to transfer actually make it to the university gates – and those who do often take more than two years to get there. They are mired by dozens of bureaucratic roadblocks, from conflicting academic calendars, to an outdated computer program that doesn't accurately track which classes count toward transferring, to entrance requirements that vary from one university to the next – even within the same major.
And that's despite numerous attempts over the years to smooth the transfer process for students moving from community college to theUniversity of California or the California State University.
