The Denver Foundation has established partnerships with the Colorado Community College System (CCCS), Aims Community College, and Colorado Mountain College to strengthen the transfer student pipeline. The CCCS partnership utilizes the existing Bridge to Bachelors Degree program and model and explores other strategies that support students in successful degree completion and transfer.
The Bridge to Bachelors program ensures new, first-time students attending any CCCS institution are guaranteed admission to a participating four-year college or university upon completion of an associate degree. Both programs at Aims Community College and through the CCCS provide personalized pathway advising, introductions to campus partners, and transfer specific programming.
The programs have nine overlapping Partner Institutions with the Reisher Scholars Program: Colorado Mesa University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University– Pueblo, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University of Denver, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Northern Colorado, and Western Colorado University.
The Reisher Bridge Scholarship seeks to create a direct pipeline of transfer students to the existing Reisher Scholar Programs at partner institutions and work to remove barriers that may impede a student’s successful transfer. The scholarship aims to improve the ease of outreach/recruitment of transfer students for Reisher Partner Institutions.
