Thriving or Simply Surviving? A Qualitative Exploration of STEM Community College Students' Transition to a Four-Year University.

ABSTRACT: Community colleges expand access to higher education and play a key role in efforts to increase and diversify the future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. While community colleges increase access to higher education and millions of students attend them for some portion of their education, the experiences of transfer students remain relatively understudied. Transferring during an academic journey can compound the barriers that students already face when pursuing a STEM degree. This study uses Schlossberg's model for analyzing human adaptation to transition to understand how STEM community college transfer students navigate and adapt to the 4-year university. Five semistructured focus groups were conducted with STEM community college transfer students attend

SUBMITTER: Gray MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9582827 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature