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On November 19, 2009, Carroll Community College and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School signed an articulation agreement which assures that qualified community college students can enter Hopkins without loss of credit and work on a four-year degree while entering with junior status.
This is the first articulation agreement between Johns Hopkins University and the college. The agreement identifies a clear path for students who want to transfer so that they may know exactly what courses to take and how they are applied toward a B.S. degree in Business at Hopkins, according to Kate Demarest, chair of the Department of Business and Information Technology at Carroll.
“I am pleased that Johns Hopkins is partnering with Carroll,” said College President Dr. Faye Pappalardo. “Partnerships such as this one create wonderful opportunities for our students to grow academically and professionally. Johns Hopkins has also agreed to make scholarship funds available to qualified students and for this, we are most appreciative.”
Among the scholarships for students wishing to enroll in the Business School, the Dean’s Undergraduate Scholarship is available to qualified members of Phi Theta Kappa with a 3.5 GPA or better and 54 credit hours.
“We at the Carey School are excited to begin an affiliation that we believe will be very productive for both Johns Hopkins and Carroll Community College,” said Dean Yash Gupta of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. “We look forward to welcoming these new students into our Bachelor of Science program and providing them with a wide-ranging perspective that will help them understand and integrate core concepts in finance, marketing, management, and technology.”
“Johns Hopkins is broadening the scope and focus of its Bachelor of Science degree in Business. They tell us they consider community college transfer students an important source of upper division level students,” said Dr. James Ball, vice president of Academic and Student Affairs at Carroll. “Johns Hopkins recognizes that Carroll students possess broad and diverse backgrounds and can bring a wonderful foundation and track record of success to any bachelor’s degree program.”
The new agreement is indicative of a trend among independent and private colleges that community college students are of high caliber and that articulation agreements make good sense, according to Judy Coen, dean of Mathematics, Business, and Sciences. Carroll students who intend to earn their bachelor’s degrees at Johns Hopkins have the opportunity to benefit from joint programmatic efforts, shared resources, and other privileges while still enrolled at
the community college, including advising assistance.
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School was established in 2007 with a gift of $50 million from Trustee Emeritus William Polk Carey. The school is dedicated to transforming business education through a humanistic and multidisciplinary approach to instruction and research.
Carroll Community College recently signed two articulation agreements with University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) that ensure the complete transferability of two community college degree programs to UMBC programs: Carroll’s A.A. in Business Administration- Management Information Systems to UMBC’s B.A. in Technical Administration; and Carroll’s A.A.S. in Computer Information Systems to UMBC’s B.S. in Information Systems.
The agreement identifies a clear path for students who want to transfer to UMBC so that they may know exactly what courses to take and how they are applied at UMBC, according to Kate Demarest, chair of the Department of Business and Information Technology at Carroll. UMBC is the second most popular destination for Carroll transfers, after Towson University.
“Management Information Systems as a career field is experiencing a resurgence in interest and potential availability of positions in the workplace,” said Dr. James Ball, vice president of Academic and Student Affairs. “Companies are looking to hire because computer systems help to create efficient organizations. Companies rely on information systems managers to assist in keeping operational costs in balance,” he said.
Students who have completed an associate degree at Carroll and wish to transfer to Messiah College will benefit from a new articulation agreement. The agreement states that Messiah College will determine course equivalencies and accept students as juniors in transfer to the four-year college.
“Messiah College is a Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences located in Grantham, Pennsylvania,” said Assistant Provost and Dean of Curriculum William G. Strausbaugh, D.Ed. “Our mission is to educate men and women toward maturity of intellect, character, and Christian faith in preparation for lives of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society. Carroll students who follow the prescribed Messiah College baccalaureate degree requirements at Carroll, earn an associate degree in the transfer program at Carroll with a 2.5 cumulative G.P.A. or higher, and meet other requirements, are granted admission to Messiah College through this agreement.”
Messiah College will award academic scholarships to all qualified graduates admitted from Carroll who meet certain eligibility requirements under the agreement. “I am most pleased that Messiah College has entered into this agreement. It is a testament to the esteem in which they hold the graduates of Carroll,” said Carroll President Dr. Faye Pappalardo.
“This agreement will better serve students as they make transfer plans to Messiah in that it clearly delineates criteria under which a student can matriculate and provides for the possibility of scholarships for qualifying students, an important assist in today’s tight economy,” said Carroll Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Dr. James Ball.
“I believe many Carroll students may be interested in Messiah College and will be eligible for generous scholarships that will provide significant financial assistance to them,” said Carroll Director of Transfer and Articulation Kristine DeWitt.
The agreement with Messiah is the latest articulation with out-of-state colleges signed by the college. The college also has special transfer agreements with Dickinson College, Gettysburg College, Shepherd University, and Shippensburg University.
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