That is a really good way for those folks to continue their education and get a bachelor or higher from a great university. Go Coogs.
Cullen/UH1927:
If it makes Cullen feel any better, this is essentially UH’s version of the CAP Program at UT
except it’s for community college kids and not a satellite campus. Both programs are specifically for the College of Liberal Arts only.
lol at Cullen/UH1927, thought he had spoken to Khator directly and knew her vision for UH that was to make UH turn 180 degrees and make it a more white suburban out of state traditional school and relegate deserving Houston kids to HCC or UHD. Dude doesn’t know what he’s talking about. All because he wanted better football attendance.
aTm already has something similar with the two Blinn College campuses. I’ve had two cousins become Aggies that way.
It’s good to see that UH is creating a new group of potential Coogs through these JUCO ties.
Good deal and helps defray costs for students.
Surprised to not see Lone Star College in the initial group, but
hopefully they will be added after initial pilot.
With this new program at UH, we are definitely going to be over 50,000 enrolled next year.
The challenge is going to be, finding student housing for all these new upperclassmen on and near campus. This is on top of the standard increase in enrollment we get every year.
I’m super unclear on what this actually does, if I’m being honest. Seems like it just makes transfer paperwork easier, but realistically, we should already have transfer equivalency almost perfectly established with all of those colleges, since they all use the TCCN and presumably send a ton of students our way. Every local community college I’ve looked at already has an established transfer map for UH, and if I recall correctly, they had them for UHCL and UHD, too.
Maybe it’s more of a recruiting effort, to encourage them to choose UH as their transfer vs. some other school or stopping after the Associates. Hard to say but I would guess this program wouldn’t be there if there wasn’t a need or value in it.
LIBERAL ARTS?!?
It could also mean more alignment in classes being offered so that they transfer in to specific majors with less rework.
Regardless, these are the undesirables according to UH1927/Cullen and the students that, according to his conversations with Khator, UH doesn’t want, you know, because, we’re planting some trees and fixing the fountain. So obvious.
I’m sure that many nearby JUCOs have “transfer paths” to UH mapped out on paper, as you say.
It seems that the difference here is that this represents not merely a transfer path to UH, but moreover, GUARANTEED ADMISSION for grads of those handful of JUCOs to UH undergrad, at least to the CLASS, something that probably was not the case before.
That’s very similar to the way Blinn College grads (Brenham or College Station campuses) get guaranteed admission to aTm undergrad. That’s has proven to be a BIG “backdoor” pathway to aTm admission for a lot of kids that couldn’t get into aTm as true freshmen.
Many of those people, including a few cousins of mine, have become REALLY die hard Aggies through that method.
Maybe we can get some comparably die hard Coogs the same way through this program.
It’s interesting to me, however, that this only gets them guaranteed admission to CLASS.
Apparently it won’t automatically get them into UH’s undergraduate Engineering, Business, Architecture, Technology, Education, HRM, or Nursing programs.
Why would it get them into the architecture program, that would be 2 years of junior college then five years of architecture. That’s crazy.
I know with business, they have additional requirements to major there. So if you wanted to study marketing, but your grades aren’t good enough for Bauer, you could study Integrated Marketing Communications through the Valenti School. Though I don’t know that the other programs or colleges you listed have similar requirements it might be that the program gets expanded to some or all of them later.
UH already offers assured admission to any transfer student with 15 hours or more and a 2.5 GPA or better, though:
I wonder if that only applies to four year college transfers though.
It does not.
So are y’all saying this will be like a Blinn pipeline but to UH and is it an effort to increase enrollment over 50k?
I’d be ok with 55k
70k would be too many.
What’s the most you think we can handle without diminishing returns on quality of life at UH?
Tech is far away, UT is tough to get into and A&M is capping enrollment so we have an opening.