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Summer District CTE Conference JULY 24, 2009. Reginald Sykes Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Assistant Commissioner of Community and Junior College Relations. 1. Creating A Transfer Culture. Articulation Agreement signed in 1991
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Summer District CTE ConferenceJULY 24, 2009 Reginald Sykes Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Assistant Commissioner of Community and Junior College Relations 1
Creating A Transfer Culture • 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
Creating A Transfer Culture • 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
First-Time Mississippi Community College Transfer Students IHL Institution Fall, 2008
3 Yr. Trend by Institution of First-Time Mississippi Community Colleges Transfer Students
Top Ten Undergraduate Majors Mississippi Community CollegeTransfer 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)
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
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
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
Technical Articulation Agreements • Early Childhood Education • Business and Office Technology Cluster