Carolina Alumni Review - March/April 2007

chancellor for student affairs. Academic and peer mentoring already are in place, and the students are guaranteed on-campus housing, which gives them access to the social life and programming available in the residence halls.

Crisp hopes the University will learn through C-STEP how to help a wider group of students. Even when the program is fully implemented, the numbers that will come to Carolina under its umbrella are small, though planners hope to expand its reach statewide. At 35 students a year, C-STEP will serve less than a fifth of those transferring from community colleges and only about 4 percent of all transfer students, assuming their total numbers remain

roughly constant, as Farmer thinks they will. University transfer programs have existed at nearby community colleges for 10 years — in Durham Tech’s case, for 20. Still, far more students transfer to UNC from four-year institutions than from community colleges. Of the top feeders (schools sending four or more transfer students) to UNC in fall 2006, 62 percent were four-year colleges and 38 percent were community colleges.

“Community colleges serve local populations, and many of their graduates want to go on to a school that is local to them,” Farmer said. “Some [students] are nontraditionally aged, and they may have a working spouse and kids in the local schools. We get

By First-generation College
Applied
596
2,423
3,019

First Generation Non-first Generation Total

Admitted 263 981

1,244

Admit 44.1% 40.5% 41.2%

Enrolled 196 698 894

Yield 74.5% 71.2% 71.9%

By College

Arts and Science
Dentistry
Education
Journalism
Library Science
Medicine
Nursing
Public Health
Off-campus
Total

Applied 2,448

68 26 52 5 24 358 2 36 3,019

Admitted 1,033

28 12 32 1 8 108 1 21 1,244

Admit 42.2% 41.2% 46.2% 61.5% 20.0% 33.3% 30.2% 50.0% 58.3% 41.2%

Enrolled 731

26 9

23 1

6 80 1 17 894

Yield 70.8% 92.9% 75.0% 71.9% 100.0% 75.0% 74.1%

100.0% 81.0% 71.9%

By Top 10 Feeder Schools

31.3% of all applications came from students attending one of these 10 schools

Applied Admitted Admit% Enrolled

N.C. State 171 78 45.6% 67

Wake Tech 138 43 31.2% 36

Durham Tech 125 74 59.2% 64

UNC-Greensboro 104 39 37.5% 39

UNC-Charlotte 95 39 41.1% 31

UNC-Wilmington 92 42 45.7% 31

Appalachian State 83 37 44.6% 33

East Carolina University 60 24 40.0% 16

Alamance CC 39 20 51.3% 19

Central Piedmont CC 38 13 34.2% 13

Total 945 409 43.3% 349

By N.C. Community College

Applied

N.C. community college 615

All others 2,404

Total 3,019

Yield 85.9% 83.7% 86.5% 100.0% 79.5% 73.8% 89.2% 66.7% 95.0%

100.0% 85.3%

Admitted 268 976

1,244

Admit 43.6% 40.6% 41.2%

Enrolled 234 660 894

Yield 87.3% 67.6% 71.9%

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