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Making Student Transfer Work in Mississippi

August 10, 2009

Reginald SykesMississippi Institutions of Higher Learning

Assistant Commissioner for Community and Junior College Relations

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• www.mississippi.edu

• Click Community and Junior College Relations

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Building a Culture of Transfer

• 70,000 Credit Enrollment

• 70% of all Freshmen (Public and Private) attend Community Colleges

• 50% of all Undergraduates (Public and Private) attend Community Colleges

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Building a Culture of Transfer

• It takes two to transfer

• Transfers are built on trust, and it takes time

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Articulation Agreement

• Articulation Agreement signed in 1991

• Articulation Agreement consists of 115 individual agreements

• Articulation Agreement contains programs of courses appropriate for transfer to Mississippi’s eight public universities

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Articulation Agreement

• Articulation Agreement has 12,000 credit hours guaranteed to transfer

• Developmental and career program credit hours taken at the community and junior colleges will not transfer

• Individual universities have agreed to accept selected technical hours from the community colleges

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Articulation Agreement

• 2009-2010 articulation changes are effective this fall

• 2010-2011 articulation changes are in the final stages of approval

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2010-2011 Proposed Articulation Changes

• Additional 307 credit hours• New Programs

American Studies (USM)Entertainment Industries (USM)

Exercise/Kinesiotherapy (USM) Healthcare Marketing (USM) Sport Coaching Education (USM) Radiologic Sciences (UMMC)

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First-Time Mississippi Community College Transfer Students IHL

Institution Fall, 2008

Term Mississippi Community College ASU DSU JSU MSU MUW MVSU UM USM SystemFall 2008 Coahoma Community College 7 69 8 1 0 46 7 7 145

Copiah-Lincoln Community College 68 7 18 47 1 1 17 96 255East Central Community College 3 4 7 123 10 2 8 30 187East Mississippi Community College 0 15 2 194 95 0 8 21 335Hinds Community College 37 22 191 84 12 4 22 98 470Holmes Community College 5 14 65 81 9 13 44 25 256Itawamba Community College 2 13 5 78 27 0 188 12 325Jones County Junior College 3 5 6 84 4 1 23 249 375Meridian Community College 0 1 5 101 2 1 13 66 189Mississippi Delta Community College 5 100 3 25 2 72 9 6 222Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College 2 4 0 67 3 0 0 398 474Northeast Mississippi Community College 1 5 4 104 23 2 93 8 240Northwest Mississippi Community College 1 60 5 39 2 6 263 16 392Pearl River Community College 1 2 5 15 0 1 5 183 212Southwest Mississippi Community College 10 0 11 9 0 1 4 44 79Total: 145 321 335 1052 190 150 704 1259 4156

Percent of Undergraduate Total 5.5% 10.0% 5.1% 7.5% 8.7% 6.0% 5.5% 10.4% 7.4%Percent of Overall Total 4.5% 7.9% 4.0% 5.9% 8.0% 5.1% 4.6% 8.5% 6.0%

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3 Yr. Trend by Institution of First-Time Mississippi Community Colleges Transfer

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GPA Comparison of CJC Transfers and All IHL Undergraduate Students

Fall 2008

IHL System

• All Undergraduates 2.70

• CJC Transfers 2.67

• IHL Natives (Non Transfers) 2.71

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Top Ten Undergraduate Majors Mississippi Community College

Transfer Students, Fall 2008

1. Elementary Education – 1,489 (36%)2. Business Administration & Management – 853 (25%)3. Physical Education/Teaching & Coaching – 530 (27%)4. Biology/Biological Sciences – 529 (13%)5. Accounting – 498 (23%)6. Social Work – 450 (38%)7. Psychology – 408 (20%)8. Nursing – 354 (19%)9. Marketing – 300 (21%)10. Visual & Performing Arts – 214 (% N/A)

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Building Relationships

• IHL Board of Trustees Meetings• State Board for Community and Junior College Trustees

Meetings• Mississippi Association of Community and Junior College

Meetings• IHL Chief Academic Officers Meetings• IHL and Community College Regional Meetings• Blue Ribbon Committee for the Redesign of Teacher

Preparation• Developmental Education

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Building Relationships

• Annual Mississippi Association of Colleges Conference

• 2 + 2 Agreements

• Community and Junior College Feedback Report

• Annual Creating Futures Through Technology Conference

• African American Male Initiative

• State-wide Electronic Transcript Initiative

• Mississippi’s PK -16 Initiative

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Technical Articulation Agreements

• Individual universities have agreed to accept selected technical hours from the community colleges

• USM has a program designed for technical students

• Credentials for hours to transfer to an academic program

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Changing Transfer Landscape

• Meeting needs of place bound students

• 2 + 2 agreements

• Selected number of technical credit hours accepted

• Online instruction

• Upper division course offerings at CJCs

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CJC Road to Baccalaureate Degree

• Create a seamless pathway

• Reduce transfer barriers

• Establish need based scholarships

• Continue collaborative efforts between universities and community/junior colleges

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