1 Summer District CTE Conference JULY 24, 2009 Reginald Sykes Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Assistant Commissioner of Community and Junior College Relations

2 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

3 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

4 First-Time Mississippi Community College Transfer Students IHL Institution Fall, 2008

5 3 Yr. Trend by Institution of First-Time Mississippi Community Colleges Transfer Students

6 Top Ten Undergraduate Majors Mississippi Community College Transfer Students, Fall 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)

7 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

8 Building Relationships Annual Mississippi Association of Colleges Conference 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

9 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

10 Technical Articulation Agreements Early Childhood Education Business and Office Technology Cluster

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