Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Virginia’s Community Colleges took a big step today to ease the transition for transfer students beginning in fall 2011.

You can read more about the agreement by following this link to a joint press release.

VCU and Virginia’s Community Colleges have been partners in guaranteed transfer for the better part of the last decade.

However, the new agreement gives transfer students greater access to services and support from the university:

The new agreement extends an existing guaranteed admission agreement signed in 2006 and updated in 2009 between VCU and the VCCS, and gives students the opportunity to feel more a part of the university at an earlier time – by providing access to the library, ability to meet with transfer advisors and participate in school-related events, a VCU email account, and discount admission to VCU sports and cultural events.

At the agreement signing today, the two leaders talked about the benefits this would have for the roughly 11,000 transfer students that attend VCU every year. 

Dr. Rao further talked about his desire to begin visiting Virginia Community College campuses across the state to learn more about the VCCS and help spread the word about the opportunities this agreement will create for students.

Posted by Jeffrey Kraus