College Offers New Program: More Students Tranferring to UNC-Chapel Hill
Posted on: Friday, 14 April 2006, 15:00 CDT
By Brandee Hayhurst, Times-News, Burlington, N.C.
Apr. 14--GRAHAM -- More students pursuing an associate's degree at Alamance Community College will get to attend UNC-Chapel Hill under a new transfer program called CSTEP.
The program for talented low-to-moderate-income students will assure each a slot at UNC-Chapel Hill if they meet the requirements and make sure they get to know the campus before they transfer.
"This will encourage students who would like to transfer to Carolina to take another look at ACC," said Janyth Fredrickson, executive vice president at the community college. "It's a wonderful way to help low-to-middle-income students go on to get that degree." Carolina received a grant of $900,000 from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to create the transfer program, which will eventually bring 35 to 45 more community college students to the university each year. Durham Technical Community College and Wake Technical Community College are also participating.
Most students accepted into the program will get some combination of grants, scholarships, work study or financial aid to cover the costs of attending Carolina.
"Carolina shouldn't be only for people who can afford their education," said Stephen Farmer, director of undergraduate admissions at UNC. "There are talented students in our community that maybe are not thinking about Carolina now, but they should be." FREDRICKSON SAID THAT ACC has financial aid programs that students can apply for, too. Her office is identifying a few ACC students to transfer to Carolina this fall, and then they will open the program to 15 students who enroll at ACC each year. The students will complete an associate's degree in arts or science before transferring.
To find out more about CSTEP, contact Rebecca Egbert in the UNC admissions office at 919-966-3984 or regbert@email.unc.edu You can also call Dan Timmons, ACC's associate dean for arts and sciences, at 336-506-4176. Brandee Hayhurst can be reached at brandee_hayhurst@link.freedom.com
-----
Copyright (c) 2006, Times-News, Burlington, N.C.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
For information on republishing this content, contact us at (800) 661-2511 (U.S.), (213) 237-4914 (worldwide), fax (213) 237-6515, or e-mail reprints@krtinfo.com.
Source: Times-News
Related Articles
- Babson College Named #1 Undergraduate Program for Entrepreneurship for 13th Consecutive Time
- PHOTO ADVISORY -- Ilitch Charities Awarded $20,000 in Scholarships July 27 to Student Athletes from Little Caesars Youth Hockey Programs
- 23 Student Entrepreneur Teams Grow Businesses In Babson College Summer Venture Program
- Single Touch Systems Launches Mobile Donations Program in Association With CharityCall and Truist
- Peace College Offers Teaching Program
- MobileSphere Launches MobileU to Offer Next-Generation Student Communications Services for Colleges and Universities
- Community and Technical Colleges Raise in-State Tuition 11 Percent
- KCTCS to Offer Kentucky Coal Academy at Five Community and Technical Colleges
- Program May Let Students Get Jump on College Study
- Berk-Tek, Ortronics, DuPont Communications Cabling Solutions, OFS and the International Copper Association Offer Free Seminar Series on Data Center Cabling Infrastructure Design
 |
 |
User Comments (0)
RSS Feeds