117). Likewise, articulation agreements can be reasonably expected to continue to be one of the primary means of providing receiving institutions with the assurances they require to provide transferring students appropriate credit for coursework completed at community colleges; however, in a highly mobile society, in can also be reasonably expected to find some students transferring within such community colleges. In these cases, careful coordination between these institutions will also be required; in other cases, students from a four-year institution may be compelled to take coursework at a community college. In this regard, Ignash and Townsend (2000) suggest that, "If two- and four-year institutions are indeed equal partners in delivering the first two years of undergraduate education, then it follows that statewide articulation agreements need to reflect this view and not assume that transfer occurs only in a two- to four-year vertical direction" (p. 1). In the final analysis, properly administered and coordinated, articulation agreements provide an effective method of providing both students and academic institutions with the reassurances they need to ensure that coursework completed at one school receives appropriate consideration at another.
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