Left to right: Dr. Jean Conway, Dr. Wright Lassiter Jr., Dr. David Jones and Dr. Larry Lemanski
For immedate release — June 2, 2010
(DALLAS) — Eastfield College and Texas A&M University-Commerce cemented their ongoing partnership in higher education recently by offering EFC students a way in which they can take the next step in their college careers through dual admissions. The new transfer agreement, signed on May 25 at Eastfield College, literally builds a bridge from the Mesquite campus to Commerce, where students will transfer and apply the credits they earn from their associate degree toward a bachelor’s degree from their university neighbor.
“I am pleased to be here to join Texas A&M University-Commerce officials — including Dr. Dan Jones, their president — as we take another step to close the distance between Dallas and Commerce,” said Dr. Wright Lassiter Jr., chancellor of the Dallas County Community College District, which includes Eastfield College.
“This (agreement) is not the beginning of a partnership between A&M-Commerce and Eastfield. It is, in some ways, a continuation and culmination of a relationship that has been growing, evolving and developing for a long time,” said Jones. “It’s been a very healthy relationship, and we welcome many students from Eastfield every year.”
Eastfield College students will be admitted to TAMU-Commerce after they complete their recommended program of study, the common core and transfer curriculum; or they can be admitted after they earn an Associate in Arts/Sciences degree and meet all other admissions requirements at the university. They also may apply for dual admission status by contacting the TAMU-Commerce community college outreach coordinator when they begin their first or second year at Eastfield. Students must submit the “ApplyTexas” application within 12 months of their anticipated enrollment at TAMU-Commerce.
“This agreement is really an auspicious moment for us,” said Dr. Jean Conway, interim president of Eastfield College. “We are delighted to have a partnership and an agreement that makes the process very concrete and clear for our students, telling them how they can transition through higher education beyond Eastfield College.”
Any EFC student who transfers to Texas A&M University-Commerce before completing a degree plan will be awarded transfer credit hours. Transfer students from EFC must have a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 in all hours attempted and 21 earned hours of transfer credits for admission to TAMU-Commerce. Transfer and Phi Theta Kappa scholarship opportunities also are available.
In addition to this transfer agreement, EFC and TAMU-Commerce have partnered in a memorandum of agreement signed last year for students who are interested in pursuing industrial engineering. DCCCD and the Texas A&M University-Commerce department of industrial engineering and technology are working together to increase the number and quality of students from the district’s seven colleges who transfer to the industrial engineering program at TAMU-Commerce.
Students who successfully complete the DCCCD Associate in Sciences degree with an emphasis in industrial engineering are able to transfer a block of 60 credit hours to the TAMU-Commerce industrial engineering degree program, provided that those transfer courses meet the department’s core curriculum, required cumulative GPA of 2.5 and the minimum grade per course.
DCCCD recently signed
transfer agreements with the University of Louisiana-Monroe and the University of Texas-Permian Basin.
For more information, contact the DCCCD office of transfer services/articulation and university relations at (214) 378-1759.
Photo: (left to right) Dr. Jean Conway, Dr. Wright Lassiter Jr., Dr. David Jones and Dr. Larry Lemanski
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Press contact: Ann Hatch
214-378-1819;
ahatch@dcccd.edu
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