Overview
ACC maintains a robust mix of partnerships with four-year universities that include co-enrollment opportunities, articulation agreements, and multiple transfer pathways for students.
Accomplishments
- ACC completed its work in the Aspen Transfer Intensive and the Equity in Transfer initiatives, both programs in which ACC and Texas State joined forces to support improved and more equitable transfer pathways for ACC students in high enrollment/high-demand career pathways such as engineering, business, or nursing. The goal in this ongoing work is to accelerate reform in transfer partnerships so that more ACC students who declare an intent to transfer can do so without losing credit or momentum and with scholarships and other financial support.
- The college signed an articulation agreement with Southern New Hampshire University, and developed another articulation agreement with Texas A&M Central Texas in Music.
- ACC’s thriving co-enrollment programs include the Chevron/TAMU Engineering Academy, now in its sixth year, the PACE program with the University of Texas at our Rio Grande Campus, ACC’s TechTeach program (a three-year accelerated program) for education students, and our Pathways program with Texas State at Hays Campus.
- Co-enrollment programs launched in the past year include U-Teach at the Rio Grande Campus, helping science majors at ACC enter educational pathways and transfer to UT-Austin, and a biotechnology certificate program for majors in UT’s College of Natural Sciences.
Impact
Co-enrollment programs and program-specific articulation agreements help transfer students follow a clear pathway to a baccalaureate degree. While enrollment in these co-enrollment programs declined during the COVID pandemic, these opportunities support economic and social mobility for our diverse students.
Next Steps
- Promote more robust recruitment for co-enrollment programs and continue conversations with four-year partners to ensure we are offering the right mix of programs for our students and their career pathways.
- Continue to examine student success data in co-enrollment programs to ensure we are supporting students to succeed with us, transfer, and graduate.
- Continue to update articulation agreements that support successful transfer with universities around the country. Planned articulation agreements:
- Dance will pursue articulation agreements with the University of Texas at Austin, Texas State University, Sam Houston State University, and Texas Woman’s University.
- Architecture will finalize an articulation agreement with Texas Tech University.
- Continue discussions with Texas State University to build out a robust Bats-to-Cats program that includes seamless transfer and a variety of scholarship opportunities.