An incisive investigation of the often fraught student-transfer pathways from community colleges to four-year institutions—and a blueprint for process reform
“Rigorously theorized and researched, Discredited offers a total perspective shift by reframing community college transfer as a public higher education problem. Schudde and Jabbar present an incisively persuasive analysis of power dynamics and roles of actors within political-ecological contexts in vertical transfer. This book is a must-read that both complicates and clarifies the landscape of transfer research, policy, and practice.” - Xueli Wang, Barbara and Glenn Thompson Endowed Professor in Educational Leadership, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and author of On My Own and Delivering Promise“Schudde and Jabbar provide a detailed examination of the vast complexities and major players involved in community college transfer—and note how barriers should be owned by all postsecondary actors. They also illustrate how the lack of statewide policy, coordination, and centralization result in an inefficient operating system that puts transfer-intending students at a disadvantage.” - Audrey J. Jaeger, executive director, Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research, and W. Dallas Herring Professor of Community College Education, NC State University“This exquisitely researched book reframes the problem of why too few students who start at a community college transfer and earn a bachelor’s degree. By illuminating the causes, Schudde and Jabbar point to concrete steps the field can take to realize the promise of transfer to broaden baccalaureate attainment.” - Davis Jenkins, senior research scholar, Community College Research Center, and research professor of education and social policy, Teachers College, Columbia University
