swirling

n. achieving a higher education degree via enrollment at two or more institutions, either simultaneously or consecutively. Subjects: English, Education

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Citations: 2002 Linda Thor (NPR: Talk of the Nation) (May 8) “Analysis: Purposes of a college education”: While they may not return immediately, they will return to us over a period of time. And by us it may not necessarily be Rio Salado. It could be any of our sister colleges or the public or private universities in the area. They become what we call swirling students. So we no longer have the student who is loyal just to one institution, but the student who kind of shops around for what it is they’re looking for at the moment. 2003 Cheryl D. Blanco South Dakota Board of Regents (Pierre, S.D.) (Jan. 15) “South Dakota Education Policy Briefing” p. 34: Swirling—attending multiple institutions in state and out of state. 2003 Andrea Conklin Bueschel Bridge Project (Stanford University, California) (Feb.) “The Missing Link: The Role of Community Colleges in the Transitions between High School and College”: Part of what makes data collection difficult on these measures is that so many students attend more than one institution during their careers, often going back and forth, a process some call “swirling,” different from the linear path assumed. 2003 Mick Hinton Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Okla.) (Nov. 9) “State has schools that meet every need” p. 8: “One of the phenomena of today’s college student is the term ‘swirling’,” Moss said, which refers to the fact that many students attend more than one college. Moss said that especially with distance learning, students are not limited geographically as to where they enroll. 2004 Mark David Milliron Chronicle of Higher Education (Apr. 29) “Crunch Time at Community Colleges”: The notion of the “traditional student” is harder to define. More and more students are in what we call “learning swirl”—swirling in and out of multiple learning experiences throughout their life. They may come through a primary cycle of education, but then they continually return to upgrade, retool, refresh in formal credit and in noncredit formats. Indeed, in many community colleges fully ¼ of the students in the allied health or IT programs already has a bachelors degree or higher! *2005 Department of University and College Relations Maricopa Community Colleges (Tempe, Ariz.) (Feb. 3) “Definitions Of Transfer Students”: Swirling Students: Students who have been admitted to a degree program at a baccalaureate institution and take courses at one of the colleges to be transferred and applied toward a baccalaureate degree. 2005 Jerome Sullivan @ Committee on House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness Congressional Testimony by Federal Document Clearing House (May 5) “College Credit Mobility”: There are “swirling” transfers—students who are enrolled in two or more schools simultaneously. *2005 SAS (Cary, N.C.) (May 17) “What do we expect?” p. 5: Given that students are increasingly swirling in and out of education—achieving multiple credentials at different times in their lives—many of them crave programmatic integration (e.g., certifications that build to diplomas to degrees). 2005 Margaret Regan Tucson Weekly (Ariz.) (Aug. 18) “Making the Undergrad Grade”: Students who don’t place into college algebra are sent off to Pima Community College for remedial math, a practice known as “swirling.”

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