{"id":3147,"date":"2016-03-30T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/?page_id=3147"},"modified":"2016-03-30T16:10:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:10:18","slug":"transfer-agreement-signed-with-pontifical-catholic-of-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/april-2016\/transfer-agreement-signed-with-pontifical-catholic-of-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"Transfer Agreement Signed with Pontifical Catholic of Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3149\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3149\" src=\"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2015\/11\/TransferAgreement.jpg\" alt=\"Jorge Ivan V\u00e9lez Arocho, president of PUCPR, with Joann La Perla-Morales, president of MCC, surrounded by officials from PUCPR.\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorge Ivan V\u00e9lez Arocho, president of PUCPR, with Joann La Perla-Morales, president of MCC, surrounded by officials from PUCPR.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (PUCPR) and Middlesex County College signed an agreement\u00a0that allows students to obtain a Bachelor\u2019s Degree at PUCPR.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement establishes that the students of MCC with an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts have the\u00a0opportunity to transfer to PUCPR and take the required courses in a corresponding program and receive a\u00a0PUCPR University Bachelor\u2019s Degree. It also establishes a structure that streamlines the process of\u00a0recognition of credits for students transferring from MCC to PUCPR.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure the transfer from MCC to PUCPR, the student must have graduated with an Associate Degree in\u00a0liberal arts, and PUCPR validates the 66 credits. The participant chooses a baccalaureate program and\u00a0continues as a third-year student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPontifical is an excellent university with a wide range of quality academic programs in a beautiful location,\u201d\u00a0said Joann La Perla-Morales, president of MCC. \u201cIn addition, it provides students with a valuable cultural\u00a0experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both PUCPR and Middlesex share a mission and vision that are student-focused.<\/p>\n<p>An information session for MCC students will be held on Thursday, April 14 from 2-3:30 p.m. in the\u00a0Brunswick Room of Crabiel Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (PUCPR) and Middlesex County College signed an agreement\u00a0that allows students to obtain a Bachelor\u2019s Degree at PUCPR. The agreement establishes that the students of MCC with an Associate Degree in Liberal Arts have the\u00a0opportunity to transfer to PUCPR and take the required courses in a corresponding program and receive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3145,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3147","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=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3147\/revisions\/3151"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}