On today’s Louisiana Considered, we take a deep look at the state’s community college transfer rates to 4-year institutions. 

Louisiana lags behind the U.S. as a whole, according to new research from the Aspen Institute and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. We dig into the data and discuss what’s so challenging about making the jump with Tania LaViolet, one of the report authors.

Plus, we hear from Nancee Sorenson, chancellor of Louisiana State University Eunice. The college enrolls more than 4,000 full and part-time students. It also has the highest transfer rate among all two-year schools in the state.

And later, we chat with Torbjorn Tornquist, a geology professor at Tulane University, about a new study on dire wetland loss projections. 

Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Aubri Juhasz. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber. Today’s episode was produced by Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell. And it was engineered by Garrett Pittman.

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