SU offers easy transfer from two-year school in Georgia
Students at Georgia Perimeter College are now able to seamlessly transfer from the Atlanta-area community college to Syracuse University.
Chancellor Nancy Cantor and Anthony Tricoli, president of GPC, signed an agreement Nov. 11 allowing eligible GPC students to move from the community college to either SU’s College of Arts and Sciences or the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science.
GPC wants to offer its approximately 25,000 students seats at some of the best four-year institutions in the country, Tricoli said.
‘I am very excited that GPC is a partner of SU because it provides our students with another wonderful option for an institution,’ Tricoli said. ‘SU is highly regarded around the nation as one of the finest institutions in the nation, and we are excited to have this agreement.’
The agreement, which begins fall 2011, makes SU the 40th school that has such an agreement with GPC, Tricoli said. SU signed a dual admission/transfer admission guarantee agreement that gives GPC students guaranteed seats if they meet certain criteria.
Under the agreement, the students will indicate if they would like to sign the transfer agreement with SU when they enter GPC, Tricoli said. When the students are set to graduate from GPC, they would apply to the university indicating that they have signed the agreement. The agreement requires students to complete their associate degrees with at least a 3.0 grade point average and at least 60 transferable credits.
Tricoli worked to build transfer agreements at community colleges before he arrived at GPC in 2006. He was on the Transfer Admission Guarantee Committee at California State University Channel Islands and the Transfer Pathway Program Articulation Committee at California State University Northridge from 1999 to 2000.
Six months ago, an SU representative approached Tricoli when he was giving a presentation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, he said. Tricoli spoke about the success GPC has had with its transfer agreements. The SU representative was interested in a possible creation of a partnership between SU and GPC. About five months later, the details of the agreement were reached.
Tricoli said: ‘This program desires to improve students’ success.’
Published on December 6, 2010 at 12:00 pm
