The University of Mary Washington and Germanna Community College reached new co-enrollment and direct transfer agreements that will make degrees more affordable and more accessible.
David Sam, president of Germanna Community College, and Rick Hurley, president of the University of Mary Washington, signed the agreement into action today during a ceremony at UMW’s Dodd Auditorium.
The co-enrollment agreement will allow Germanna students to take as many as five courses at UMW as part of their studies at the community college. The direct transfer agreement will allow co-enrolled Germanna students with a certain minimum grade point average to transfer to UMW’s bachelor of liberal studies degree program after they receive their associate’s degrees from the community college.
Both presidents have been working together to formulate plans to better serve the students, communities, and the state since Hurley began his tenure, according to Sam.
“This historic and innovative agreement takes the ongoing partnership between the University of Mary Washington and Germanna Community College to a new level,” said Sam.
Co-enrollment allows students to save time and money while gaining experience before transition and benefits “taxpayers the way dual enrollment of high school students at Germanna does,” continued Sam.
The agreements support Germanna’s mission of making quality higher education affordable and accessible by strengthening its longstanding partnership with UMW, according to Mike Zitz, Germanna spokesman.
“It’s an enhancement of that partnership that will be good for the people of our area, leading to more degrees, paving the way to good jobs and to a better standard of living,” said Zitz. “It will help build a stronger local economy because an educated workforce makes local businesses more competitive and attracts new ones to the area. In addition to fostering prosperity, we believe these agreements will strengthen our area by preparing good citizens to become engaged in the community and to assume leadership roles.”
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