Carroll Community College, McDaniel College sign transfer agreement

Daily Record Staff//March 18, 2019//

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From left, Dr. Julia Jasken, McDaniel College provost; Dr. Roger Casey, president of McDaniel College; Dr. James D. Ball, president of Carroll Community College; and Dr. Rosalie Mince, vice president of academic and student affairs at Carroll Community College, signed a Memorandum of Understanding Monday for a new articulation agreement between the schools.

Officials from Carroll Community College and McDaniel College announced a new articulation agreement Monday making it easier for Carroll students to transfer and complete course work for bachelor’s degrees in elementary education or the secondary education/PreK-12 education minor at McDaniel.

This agreement serves as a seamless pathway for students to earn both an associate’s degree from Carroll and a bachelor’s degree from McDaniel who plan to become teachers or administrators in a PreK-12 setting.

Carroll Community College President Dr. James D. Ball and McDaniel College President Dr. Roger N. Casey along with Dr. Rosalie Mince, vice president for academic and student affairs at Carroll, and Dr. Julia Jasken, provost at McDaniel, signed the Memorandum of Understanding Monday during a ceremony held at Carroll.

The agreement, which goes into effect for the fall 2019 semester at McDaniel, allows Carroll students with at least a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average and who have completed the requirements for an Associate of Arts in Teaching in elementary education/elementary special education to receive guaranteed admission to McDaniel. Students are also eligible to receive at least a $16,000 per year transfer scholarship with additional scholarship consideration for members of the Phi Theta Kappa academic honor society.

Students can then choose to major in elementary education at McDaniel or enroll in the secondary education (grades 7–12) minor with a major in their field, such as biology, chemistry, English, mathematics, physics, social studies or Spanish, or the PreK-12 education minor in art or physical education. Carroll students will be able to complete their degree at McDaniel in two years.

This is the second agreement established by the two colleges. Carroll and McDaniel also have an articulation agreement signed for students in the exercise science pathway at Carroll to earn a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology at McDaniel. Kinesiology is one of the largest majors at McDaniel, and McDaniel is the only independent college or university in Maryland to offer a major in kinesiology.