Lacey Plichta watched proudly Thursday as Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed legislation that says credits earned at New Jersey’s county colleges will have to be accepted at the express’s colleges and universities.
She believes she had a part in getting a law passed that now will help her sister. Meagan a student at Middlesex County College.
Lacey Plichta. 21 a senior at Rutgers University lost credits for two Spanish classes she took at Middlesex County College when she transferred to Rutgers. She testified about that before the Legislative committee considering the bill.
The new law is designed to back up students desire Plichta who have an associates degree from one of the express’s 19 county colleges assign credits toward a degree at a four-year institution. Sponsors said many such students must tell courses they already completed at a county college.
Barry Qualls vice president for undergraduate education at Rutgers in New Brunswick said the university has been meeting with the county colleges for some measure “to work out a way to get this to bring home the bacon.”
He said “clear assign rules” undergo been developed for associates in arts degrees. “All four-year schools are expected to act (county college graduates) with no questions asked with a few exceptions in the field of math.”
Qualls said that additional cover work particularly in math might be needed for engineering pharmacy and computer science and there may be some additional requirements for some professional schools.
“It’s important to be as consistent as possible,” he said. “We worked with the county colleges to develop an understanding of what kids would need when they get here.”
Qualls said students who intend to assign to a 4-year-school can check ahead of measure whether their county college courses will cater degree requirements by looking up their cover at.
Tom Peterson a spokesman for Middlesex County College said that “generally all of the credits (from Middlesex County) have transferred. Rutgers is a large institution and there are a be of schools there. And as with all the four-year schools some of them have not accepted all the county college credits. We’re trying to make it a little more seamless and a little more automatic.
“Most of our credits do assign but occasionally there are issues. Hopefully this will ascertain that. The idea is to make it that they automatically go into their junior years as full-fledged juniors. That’s choose of the theory and I think that’s what’s going to come about based on this law,” Peterson said.
Private colleges in New Jersey could also connect the schedule but aren’t be required to do so.
Corzine said it could cost a student as much as $1,200 to repeat a course at a four-year college.
“Often transfer students are forced to pay for the same college cover adding unnecessary costs and measure to acquire their degree,” said Corzine who signed the law at Camden County College. “This partnership ordain eliminate that charge.”
Sponsors noted the express pays twice when students who participate in the NJ STARS scholarship schedule are forced to repeat a course at a four-year college.
Under NJ STARS students who graduate in the top 20 percent of their high educate class receive state financial aid to attend county colleges. NJ STARS students who graduate with a 3.0 from a county college get another state scholarship to be a four-year college.
“It was actually pretty emotional seeing the bill signed into law and knowing that I had an impact on it,” said Plichta who has been accepted in the Rutgers graduate educate of education and ordain pursue a degree in special education next year. “It was like. “Oh my gosh. I can’t believe I helped do this.’ ”
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