California's 112-campus community college system is making it easier for graduates to attend historically black colleges and universities across the country.
The system is launching a new program that guarantees students admission to nine HBCUs if they graduate with an associate degree. The deal allows a student with 60 community college credits to enter the historically black colleges as a junior.
The deal serves twin goals. It helps two-year students from California find a place to get a four-year degree if they want to leave the state. It also helps historically black colleges find students as some struggle with enrollment declines. Late last year, the for-profit University of Phoenix's attempt to partner with historically black colleges prompted skepticism.
There are no HBCUs in California, and the deal may be a precedent-setting agreement between a state system and a series of public and private colleges in other states.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/17/california-community-college-system-signs-transfer-deal-nine-hbcus