Students today are often faced with a difficult decision: pursue an expensive and time-intensive four-year Bachelor’s program or opt for a two-year degree that, while providing some economic security, may result in a “terminal degree” without the opportunity to transfer to a four-year program later. In this report from New America, Mary Alice McCarthy examines the tradeoff between two- and four-year degree programs and the challenges to credit articulation that keep students from pursuing additional education. She offers a set of concrete reforms to both federal and state education policy to help institutions of higher education support the needs of Career Technical Education (CTE) students.
Dual Enrollment, Articulation and Transfer
This report summarizes the work of the SREB Dual Enrollment Initiative to date, lays out its agenda for 2023,…
