Annotated Bibliography

Bourke, Brian, Claire H. Major, and Michael S. Harris. "Images of Fictional Community College
Students." Community College Journal of Research & Practice 33.1 (2009): 55-69.
Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 24 Feb. 2010.
In this source there are 52 other sources cited. A few that I have used in my research so far are B.T. Long who
establishes the statistics of what percent of honor students attend community colleges and
four year colleges, Quick, D., Lehmann, J., & Deniston, T. who bring up the point of the
types of students that enroll in community colleges and four year colleges and what that
says about community colleges, and DeGenaro, W. who shows us the portrayal of
community colleges in fictional media. This source will help make the reader understand
how community college is looked at from other perspectives and will aid in the
understanding of the types of needs that students attending community college need.

Cohen, Arthur M., and Florence B. Brawer. The American Community College. 5th ed. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008. Print.This book demonstrates what the American Community College system is like. It talks of how the schools are run and what types of students attend these schools. In different areas, specific community colleges are better than others and this book helps bring out what makes one school better than the other. This will help in realizing how much more difficult it is for a student to transfer from one community college to a four year school than another.

MLA Format Blog #5

Basile, Elizabeth Anne. A Longitudinal Study of Reverse Transfer Students and the Second Chance Function of the Community College., 2004. Print.

Cohen, Arthur M., and Florence B. Brawer. The American Community College. 5th ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008. Print.

Mellow, Gail O'Connor, and Cynthia M. Heelan. Minding the Dream : The Process and Practice of the American Community College. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. Print.

Powell, Robert Lee, Jr. An Analysis of the Factors Related to the Academic Performance of Community College Transfer and Native Business Students at New Jersey Public Senior Institutions of Higher Education., 1979. Print.

Rosenbaum, James E., Regina Deil-Amen, and Ann E. Person. After Admission : From College Access to College Success. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. Print.

Questions for my topic Blog #6

Possible questions for my topic are :

Do community colleges really prepare students for the future and give them the ability to succeed at a 4 year institution?

Although it is said that community college is a great way to save money, is it really worth it in the long run?

Is going to school for only two years working for students?

What is the success rate of students transferring from feeder schools? Do they have the right amount of knowledge to succeed in specific classes given by specific universities?

Rutgers RIOT

The Rutgers RIOT tutorial is a great way to learn how to navigate the library website. It taught us how to find new search engines that help limit our searches to topics that are only under our keywords. Other search engines, such as google and yahoo, bring up thousands of websites that might have only one of your words in the search tab among millions of other pieces of information that will not help with your topic. Using the search engines provided by the Rutgers library website we have the ability to use just key words to find thousands of articles to help us with our topic. These search engines also help narrow down searches to the specifics of your topic and allow you to get scholarly journals, articles, etc. The tutorial was a good teaching device because it took you step by step through how to navigate throughout the Rutgers library website. I don't think it needs any improvement.

Questions for the librarian

1) What is the best search engine to use that will give us the most accurate information and the most success?



2) How do we look up and find books throughout the library?



3) What is the best way to find specific statistics. For example, "How successfull are students transfering to Rutgers?"

My topic idea has not changed since blog one, but it has been somewhat modified. I have taken into consideration how affective the comminity colleges have been in my hometown. The community college in my hometown is Brookdale Community College and it is one of the best ones around. It seems that the community college system is very affective in our area because it gives students a chance to get situated and get over the initial work load change from high school to college. It gives students a chance to find what they are looking for in life such as what path to take towards occupations. When researching the success rate of students coming from community college to Rutgers i found that Rutgers has an easy access website known as ARTSYS to help students realize what credits will transfer to this school. A thing that makes it difficult for those transfering is that when they have taken certain classes that do not transfer and it was a waste of money because they could have been spending time on something that would have helped them. Rutgers provides many different sites to help aid in the transfer process to make sure that everything you have worked hard for will be worth it. Coming to Rutgers from a community college may consider you to stay an extra year because not everything will transfer and it will cost you more money in the end. I dont believe that community college is a failed model all together because it definately helps students find there path but ways to improve it are to offer classes that will definately transfer to schools. Having random classes that do not tansfer allow students to have a higher gpa, but in the end will not help them because they wasted their time and their money. To still find out my topic i need to conduct more research as to specific success rates and statistics for transfering from a community college to a 4 year univesity.
http://ur.rutgers.edu/focus/article/ARTSYS%20eases%20way%20for%20community%20college%20transfer%20students/164/

http://admissions.rutgers.edu/applynow/morefortransferapplicants/njcommunitycollegestudents.aspx