{"id":3021,"date":"2016-01-28T10:23:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/?page_id=3021"},"modified":"2016-01-28T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T14:27:20","slug":"mcc-signs-reverse-transfer-agreement-with-pillar-college","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/january-2016\/mcc-signs-reverse-transfer-agreement-with-pillar-college\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC Signs Reverse Transfer Agreement with Pillar College"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students who received scholarships enjoyed mingling with donors and other MCC students at the annual Scholarship Reception in November. They also enjoyed taking selfies. More than 300 students, donors and guests attended. The MCC Foundation is providing over $790,000 in scholarships this year thanks to the generosity of donors. More than 650 students will receive an MCC scholarship in 2015-16.<\/p><\/div>\n

Representatives of Middlesex County College and Pillar College recently signed a reverse transfer\u00a0agreement. This pact allows students attending Pillar College to receive a Middlesex degree for courses\u00a0they have taken at MCC and Pillar.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really designed for students who started at Middlesex and transferred to Pillar just shy of an Associate\u00a0Degree,\u201d said Mark McCormick, MCC\u2019s vice president for academic and student affairs. \u201cWhat we find is\u00a0students may transfer early, intending to earn a Bachelor\u2019s Degree, but then an unforeseen circumstance\u00a0prevents them from finishing. This agreement means they could take the credits they have earned from both\u00a0institutions and apply them to an Associate Degree from MCC. We encourage all our students to graduate\u00a0before transferring, but we recognize this doesn\u2019t always happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agreement with Pillar is the first reverse transfer agreement Middlesex has signed. Middlesex has\u00a0numerous transfer articulation agreements with colleges and universities all over the nation. In the other\u00a0transfer agreements, students earn an Associate Degree at MCC, then apply their credits earned to the four-year school where they transfer in as juniors.<\/p>\n

In the Pillar agreement, students must have earned at least 30 degree-eligible, transferable credits from\u00a0Middlesex; the remainder can be earned at Pillar.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the interesting features of this agreement is that the student could be awarded an Associate Degree\u00a0from MCC and a Bachelor\u2019s Degree from Pillar simultaneously,\u201d Dr. McCormick said.<\/p>\n

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Seated, from left: Dr. Mark McCormick, vice president for academic and student affairs, and Dr. Joann La Perla-Morales, president at Middlesex County College; David E. Schroeder, president, and Wayne R. Dyer, vice president of strategic alliances, at Pillar College. Standing: Marla Brinson, dean of student affairs, and Patrick Madama, vice president for institutional advancement, at Middlesex.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Representatives of Middlesex County College and Pillar College recently signed a reverse transfer\u00a0agreement. This pact allows students attending Pillar College to receive a Middlesex degree for courses\u00a0they have taken at MCC and Pillar. \u201cIt is really designed for students who started at Middlesex and transferred to Pillar just shy of an Associate\u00a0Degree,\u201d said Mark McCormick, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3019,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3021","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3028,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3021\/revisions\/3028"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}