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January 17, 2006
Contacts: Elaine Kraft, Dir. of Public Relations and Communications, UWB, 425-352-3395
Suzy Ames, Director of Communications, SBCTC, 360-704-4310
Carl Young, Director of Communications, Cascadia Community College
UW Bothell formalizes commitment to transfer students
With freshmen on the horizon, detailed agreement promises 52 percent of baccalaureate seats to community college transfers
With the state poised to allow the first freshmen at University of Washington, Bothell in 2007, a new agreement promising transfer students over half of UWB’s undergraduate seats will be signed Thursday afternoon by University of Washington President Mark Emmert, State Board for Community and Technical Colleges Executive Director Earl Hale and the Higher Education Coordinating Board Executive Director Jim Sulton.
In the agreement, which formalizes UW Bothell’s long-standing commitment to serving as the next academic step for transfer students, it promises a minimum upper-division enrollment of 1,150 full-time students at UWB. In addition, at least 52 percent of available UWB undergraduate seats will be reserved for qualified community college and technical college transfer students. This ensures no reduction in the current number of transfer students now accepted at UWB. The agreement formalizes UWB's commitment to expand access for upper-division transfer students even as it moves toward adding freshmen and sophomores to the campus, which currently serves only juniors, seniors and graduate students. UWB serves students from the north Puget Sound region, primarily east King County and Snohomish County.
Legislation was passed last year that permits UWB to begin accepting lower-division students, which will start in fall 2006. With the addition of freshmen, UW Bothell will be able to help meet the state’s need for expanded four-year opportunities. But the addition of lower-division courses at UWB will also be a clear benefit to transfer students, creating richer opportunities for juniors and seniors to round out their major with study in related fields.
The agreement also promises that community and technical college students will have ample information to use for academic planning and full access to UWB majors. Partners in the new agreement believe that students attending any of UWB’s partner community and technical colleges should be in a position to know that if they succeed well at their two-year college and meet the high standards for admission to majors at UWB, there should be a space available for them at UWB when they complete their lower-division studies.
The agreement calls for dual enrollment agreements between UWB and all its partner community colleges to be completed by December of 2006. Such agreements have already been signed with Cascadia Community College, Everett Community College, North Seattle Community College and Shoreline Community College. A link to this new agreement can be found on the Web sites of UWB and the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
The signing will take place at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday, January 19 in the University of Washington Gerberding Hall, Regents Room.
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