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UT CONNECTION
Volume 4 / Issue 1 January/February 2018 -- News from the Transfer Center
New Collaboration: RCC Partners with UNCP to Create Brave Step
This program is an excellent example
of how higher education should and
can function at its best.
--Dr. Kim Gold, RCC President
Lumberton—On January 24 th ,
Robeson Community College and
UNC Pembroke announced its new
collaborative program. Brave Step
allows students to be co-admitted to
both institutions. While at Robeson
Community College, students would complete college transfer courses. Academic advisors from
both institutions would work with participants to ensure they are completing the required
coursework to transfer and enter a particular major at the university.
While enrolled in the program, students would be able to partake of student activities as both a
community college student as well as a UNC Pembroke student. After completing 30 semester
credit hours and maintaining a certain GPA, students would transfer to UNC Pembroke. Once
completing the additional general education courses, students would participate in a reverse
transfer where they would earn an associate degree while continuing to pursue their
baccalaureate degree.
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
O1. UNC Wilmington Earns High
Rating for Online Programs
O2. Graduation Reminders from
Records and Registration
O3. Transfer Resources Students
Often Overlook
Summer Institutes Offer Students Ways to
Develop Skills and Prepare for Medical School
Summer Camp? Those two words elicit memories of camping
by a lake, canoeing, and making s’mores by the camp fire.
For a college student, summer institutes are the new “in.”
Community college students, who want to make their
university applications more competitive, are looking for
summer programs that will give them an advantage. Two
North Carolina universities are offering such programs in
2018.
Durham--Duke University’s Summer Biomedical Sciences
Institute is a free six-week residential experience for rising
college sophomores and juniors. Designed to assist students
in applying to medical school, the institute offers both
academic and advising support. For example, students take