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Article: The community college transfer challenge: boosting student transfers from community colleges to four-year institutions is a matter of getting all the right policies and programs in place.
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- Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- May 14, 2009
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Once a high school dropout, Hamilton Cunningham beat the odds in navigating the transition from earning a GED, serving in the U.S. Air Force, and attending community college to enrolling at Howard University in fall 2007 as a sophomore where he is now a Traman Scholar and a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation undergraduate transfer scholarship recipient. Cunningham, who is Black, credits participation in the Leadership Academy, a Black male-oriented academic support program at Georgia Perimeter Community College where he attended, for guidance from program mentors who motivated him to consider transferring to a four-year institution.
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