2015

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Former EC students earn highest GPA among transfers at 4-year institutions For the second better in

university courses than students who began lheir education at the senior institutions. The "native" students earned a 3.10 GPA. ECCC President Dr. Billy Stewart said that he was extremely proud of the for– mer students and for the role East Central Commu– nity College faculty and staff played in preparing the students to transfer to the four-year university level. " This data, compiled and reported by the IHL, affirms the results of our college's dedication to Stu– dent Success and Teaching and Learning, two hall– mark commitments of our

strategic plan for the fu– ture, 2020 Vision," Stewart said. "When we adopted this plan in Februar~ 2013, these are the results we anticipated . Our faculty and staff are to be com– mended for preparing East Central transfer students well for the aeademic chal– lenges of a. universHy. Based on the performance of our transfer studenh>, no one does that better in the s tate of Mississippi than East Central Community College." For more information about attending East Cen– tral Community College, contact ECCC Student Services at 601-635-6205 or e-mail rlee~cccc.edu.

straight year. studenls who transferred from East Central Commu– nity College to !our– year institutions earned the highest cu– mulative grade point average (GPA) of all community college transfers in the state of .Mississippi. Students who trans– ferred from East Cen– tral to one of the state's eight public, four-year institutions earned a 3.22 GPA. according to data released from tbe Mississippi Institutions of Higher J_.earning (IHL). Students from the community/junior college with the second highest GPA earned a 3.21. The average for all 15 community col– leges combined was a 3.13 GPA. The report also again showed that commu– nity college transfer students performed ac– ademically as well or

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