The 25th Annual Black College Awareness Fair was held at Stanford University last week. (Photo courtesy of the Rho Delta Omega Chapter of AKA from Palo Alto, Calif.)
Last week, leaders of the nine schools each signed agreements with the California Community Colleges Board of Governors with them guaranteeing that, starting fall 2015, California community college transfer students who satisfy certain academic criteria will gain admission to any of the nine colleges and universities.
The agreements stipulate that students who apply to the schools and earn a transfer-level associate degree with a GPA of 2.5 or higher and complete either the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum or the California State University General Education Breadth study program will be granted admission as a college junior.
“The California Community Colleges [are] working on multiple fronts to create avenues of opportunity for our students,” California Community Colleges Board of Governors president Geoffrey L. Baum said in a statement.
“This agreement opens a new and streamlined transfer pathway for our students to some of the finest and culturally diverse institutions of higher learning in the United States. I thank our nine partners for working with us to make it possible,” he noted.
Under the agreement, transfer students will gain “priority consideration for housing, consideration for transfer scholarships for students with a 3.2 or higher GPA, and pre-admission advising,” according to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors.
The nine participating institutions are:
