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5 August 2005 Longwood and Tidewater Community College sign transfer agreement
Add Tidewater Community College (TCC) to the list of community colleges with which Longwood University has signed an agreement paving the way for their students to transfer to Longwood. Longwood President Dr. Patricia Cormier and Dr. Deborah M. DiCroce, TCC president, signed a transfer agreement in a ceremony Aug. 2 at the latter's Visual Arts Center in Portsmouth. As with the other agreements, community college graduates who earn the Associate of Arts and/or Science degree with at least a 2.5 grade-point average are guaranteed admission to Longwood. Longwood has signed agreements with all but three of Virginia's 23 community colleges. "In essence, we are providing another important on-ramp to the American dream; a chance for the baccalaureate degree and the social and economic mobility that comes with that," Dr. DiCroce said during the ceremony. "The quality education offered by Longwood, especially in teacher preparation and through their business school, adds to valuable opportunities for our graduates." TCC enrolls more than 35,000 students annually, making it the second largest of the state's community colleges and the 37th largest in the nation. Founded in 1968, it has campuses in Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach. "We have been very pleased with our relationship with TCC and its students, and we look forward to seeing that increase," Dr. Cormier said. Longwood will sign agreements with Northern Virginia Community College on Aug. 15 and with Southside Virginia and Patrick Henry community colleges on Aug. 25. The agreement with Patrick Henry Community College, located in Martinsville, is the only one of the three that will be signed on the Longwood campus. One of the earlier agreements, with Dr. Elizabeth H. Crowther, president of Rappahannock Community College, also was signed at Longwood, on June 6. Longwood in 1991 became one of the first Virginia institutions to enter into agreements with community colleges. The latest admission agreement adds to the 1991 agreement that community college graduates will have junior status, all of their credits will transfer (though not all may apply toward their degree), and all of their lower-division general education goals will be met. |
