{"id":2357,"date":"2018-08-06T10:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2018-08-06T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T14:20:08","slug":"new-guaranteed-admission-program-will-offer-more-choices-to-states-community-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/08\/06\/new-guaranteed-admission-program-will-offer-more-choices-to-states-community-college-students\/","title":{"rendered":"New Guaranteed Admission Program Will Offer More Choices to California&#8217;s Community College Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2358\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/commcollege.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2358\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/commcollege.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/commcollege.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/commcollege-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Community college students in California now have even more options when planning their path to a four-year degree.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Governors that oversees the state&#8217;s community colleges approved a plan last month that offers guaranteed admission to students who take specific community college courses geared toward their intended four-year major.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Three dozen private, four-year institutions have signed on to the plan, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/2018\/a-group-of-36-california-private-colleges-offer-guarantee-admissions-to-community-college-students\/600609\">EdSource<\/a><\/em>. All but one of those schools will begin accepting students through the program for the 2018-19 academic year. Similar guaranteed admission programs are already in place within the state&#8217;s public university systems.<\/p>\n<p>The latest agreement will be especially beneficial to students who need to complete their college degree close to home, said Laura Hope, executive vice chancellor of the state&#8217;s community college system. Although students have always been welcome to transfer into private colleges, the new guaranteed admission program will ease the process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of our students who transfer to a private university, they do so because they are place-bound,&#8221; Hope told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/2018\/a-group-of-36-california-private-colleges-offer-guarantee-admissions-to-community-college-students\/600609\">EdSource<\/a><\/em>. &#8220;Geography is one of the reasons they may want to make that selection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/edsource.org\/2018\/a-group-of-36-california-private-colleges-offer-guarantee-admissions-to-community-college-students\/600609\">Read the full EdSource article<\/a><\/em> and view <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/knowledge-center\/transfer\/\">NACAC\u2019s transfer resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community college students in California now have even more options when planning their path to a four-year degree. The Board of Governors that oversees the state&#8217;s community colleges approved a plan last month that offers guaranteed admission to students who take specific community college courses geared toward their intended four-year major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,21],"tags":[105,402],"class_list":["post-2357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access","category-transfer","tag-community-college","tag-guaranteed-admission"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-C1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}