Replications of the Model
Exploring Transfer served as the model for five other programs: Agnes Scott College teamed with Atlanta Metropolitan College and DeKalb College; Bucknell University teamed with the Community College of Philadelphia; Hamilton College teamed with Mohawk Valley and Onondaga Community Colleges, and SUNY College of Agriculture and Technology at Morrisville; Lewis and Clark Colleges, teamed with Portland Community-Technical College. They were all funded with grants from the Ford Foundation.
Of these, only the programs at Bucknell and Smith continue, and both are considered successes.
Smith has expanded its original program to include a number of other community colleges, including Miami-Dade Community College and two tribal colleges -- Sitting Bull in North Dakota, and the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development in New Mexico.
The reasons the programs succeeded at Vassar, Smith and Bucknell, Lieberman says, is "money and caring."
"You have to have people want[ing] this to happen, "she says. "It takes leadership."
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