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Principals and Counselors WorkshopHinds Community College

December 9, 2009

Dr. Reginald SykesMississippi Institutions of Higher Learning

Assistant Commissioner for Community and Junior College Relations

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Creating A Transfer Culture

• Office of Community and Junior College Relations• Monitor and update the Articulation Agreement• Disseminate community/junior college transfer

enrollment and student performance information• Foster relationships with the community/junior

colleges

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Creating A Transfer Culture

• Articulation Agreement signed in 1991

• Articulation Agreement consists of over 115 individual agreements

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

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Creating A Transfer Culture

• Articulation Agreement has over 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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Top Ten Undergraduate Majors Mississippi Community College

Transfer Students, Fall 2008

1. Elementary Education 2. Business Administration & Management 3. Physical Education/Teaching & Coaching4. Biology/Biological Sciences 5. Accounting 6. Social Work 7. Psychology 8. Nursing 9. Marketing 10. Visual & Performing Arts

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Creating A Transfer Culture

• Policy to create a more seamless transition

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Building Relationships

• Mississippi’s P-16 Council

• African American Male In College Initiative

• State-wide Electronic Transcript Initiative

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Creating A Transfer Culture

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Creating A Transfer Culture

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Questions?