California community colleges approve transfer path to historically black schools
Source: Sacramento Bee
Expanding efforts to smooth transfer to four-year schools and shorten the time to degree, the California Community Colleges system signed new transfer agreements with nine historically black colleges and universities on Tuesday.
The agreement will allow students who complete an associate degree for transfer, which already guarantees a spot at California State University, or equivalent requirements and maintain a 2.5 grade point average to be admitted to the participating schools as juniors and graduate within two years.
Its really giving them another option, said California Community Colleges spokesman Paul Feist, who added that the system is working on transfer agreements with some in-state private universities as well.
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The schools participating in the new transfer agreement are Bennett College in North Carolina; Dillard University in Louisiana; Fisk University in Tennessee; Lincoln University of Missouri; Philander Smith College in Arkansas; Stillman College, Talladega College and Tuskegee University in Alabama; and Wiley College in Texas.
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Local NPR station KQED also reported this is due to over-enrollment at the UC and CSU schools. Meanwhile, the schools in this new agreement, as well as most HBCU's, are desperate for students.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Surprised that none of the HBCUs in VA are getting in on this yet...
tishaLA
(14,176 posts)with African American students. Berkeley and UCLA, the two "crown jewels" in the UC system, have terrible enrollment rates for African American students; those students, as well as many Latino students, are directed to Riverside, Irvine, SD, etc., or to the Cal State system.
Still, for those students who prefer to attend an HBCU rather than something in the state system, this is quite a boon. My preference, though, would be to have the UC and SCU systems pursue African American and Latino students more aggressively and place them in the very best of the state's schools.