It isn't every day that students are accepted into a community college and a four-year university in one day, and have all credits transfer.
That is until now. Northwest and Southwestern Community College in Creston, Iowa signed an articulation agreement on March 31.
The agreement has two provisions; joint admission and reverse transfer, Assistant Provost Kichoon Yang said.
The joint admission will allow the students to take classes at both institutions, in hopes that students can gain their associate's degree at SWCC and their bachelor's degree at Northwest, Enrollment Management Dean Beverly Schenkel said.
However, the students must meet the regular admissions standards to be fully accepted in the joint admissions.
Reverse transfer offers students in the program to take courses at Northwest that will be applied to their associate's degree, Yang said.
Students that are accepted into the program and express an interest in attending Northwest will be provided with on-site academic advising throughout their associate's degree, Schenkel said.
Areas of study that are included in the articulation agreement are agriculture, general education courses and online business management, along with many other courses.
"We not only have gen ed courses articulated, but we also have courses in the area of agriculture and business as well," Schenkel said. "And for years we have gained a variety of majors from Southwestern students that have transferred … so we have a lot of courses articulated."
Currently there are 50 transfer students from SWCC at Northwest and there have been nearly 20 in the last year.
"We have a long standing relationship with Southwestern Community College," Schenkel said. "So we are excited to take this next step and communicate to students that we work together for their benefit to make the transfer process easy and seamless."
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