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Tuesday, February 09, 2016

Transfer agreements between HBCUs & Community Colleges

I wonder if it's something worth doing at the City Colleges of Chicago a transfer agreement between them and the nation's HBCUs. California is ahead of the curve on this and this is a year-old article:
The California Community Colleges Board of Governors and the leaders of nine historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are signing an agreement ensuring guaranteed transfer to graduates of any California community college who meet certain academic requirements.

California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris, leaders of the participating HBCUs and George Cooper, executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs, are taking part in a signing ceremony in the chancellor’s office March 17.
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The memorandums of understanding between the chancellor’s office and the individual HBCUs says students who have completed an associate degree for transfer or similar transfer-level associate degree and maintain a 2.5 grade point average will be admitted to the four-year institution as a junior with full acceptance of transferable units.

Students who haven’t earned a degree from a community college would be able to transfer 30 or more credits and would be guaranteed admission to an HBCU with advance standing.

The participating HBCUs are Bennett College (North Carolina); Dillard University (Louisiana); Fisk University (Tennessee); Lincoln University (Missouri); Philander Smith College (Arkansas); Wiley College (Texas); and three institutions in Alabama – Stillman College, Talladega College and Tuskegee University.

The goal of the HBCU Transfer Guarantee Project is to educate students about additional transfer opportunities at these institutions and develop pathways that will contribute to an increase in baccalaureate attainment.
Although I never graduated I am a product of one of the City Colleges. I transferred to Morehouse College from one of the City Colleges. It would be an intersting development to see community colleges no only in Chicago but throughout the state develop such agreements with our nation's HBCUs.

Now that I think about it if Morehouse has such an agreement with the city colleges would it have made my time in Atlanta easier. I can only wonder about that today.

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