College affordability, the need for more graduates and competition for students is driving many community colleges and universities across the country to partner up and enhance their transfer programs.
But a transfer partnership in New Jersey is drawing the ire of some of the colleges’ neighbors. Rowan University and Rowan College at Burlington County, a two-year institution, are starting a new program that has prompted the community college to limit any advertisements or promotion for other four-year colleges and universities on its campus. RCBC will not host transfer fairs or information tables for other four-year programs.
The exclusive deal is related to a new partnership, called 3+1, between the two institutions, which allows students to remain on the community college campus while earning a Rowan University degree. Participating students also get a 15 percent discount and are placed in guided degree pathways from the two-year institution that lead to a bachelor’s degree from the university.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/10/11/new-exclusive-transfer-partnership-ruffles-feathers-new-jersey