Crisp, GloriaNuñez, Anne-MarieElizondo, Diane2018-05-042018-05-042012-07-01http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83074Community colleges offer Hispanic students a critical gateway to bachelor’s degrees, but these institutions also have low transfer rates to four-year institutions. Some research suggests that Hispanic-Serving community colleges have higher Hispanic transfer rates. This paper examines transfer patterns of a national sample of Hispanic community college students who began their postsecondary education in a Hispanic-Serving community college during the 2003-4 academic year. These students’ postsecondary experiences and outcomes were tracked six years later. In this white paper, we compare characteristics of Hispanic students’ who began in Hispanic-Serving community colleges with those of Hispanic students who successfully transferred to a 4-year institution within six years. In addition, we evaluate the characteristics of the Hispanic-Serving community colleges of the whole group of Hispanic students compared with those who transferred within six years.application/pdfenCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalHispanic-Serving Community CollegesLatin American studentseducational attainmenttransfer studentsacademic environmentArticlehttps://www.hacu.net/images/hacu/OPAI/H3ERC/2012_papers/Nunez%20crisp%20elizondo%20-%202%20year%20hsi%20characteristics%20-%202012.pdf