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.

“It’s 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.