Post by Freehold Resident on Sept 13, 2006 8:49:41 GMT -5
Picked up from the Rutgers University Daily Targum
Future of Freehold partnership uncertain
Timothy Person/Contributing Writer
No, the University doesn't have a fourth campus, but at the Western Monmouth Higher Education Center, students can take courses whose credits can be easily transferred to transcripts at Rutgers.
But with college consolidation looming, the fate of this exchange program is unclear, officials said.
The Center, which is also a campus of Brookdale Community College, primarily serves Freehold-area University students are place-bound, meaning they are in need of classes in their local area for various reasons.
The partnership between the University and the Center gives New Jersey undergraduates the ability to continue their education with credited classes year-round.
These students apply to Rutgers College and, if accepted, pursue their undergraduate degrees in Freehold. Rutgers College students are generally not permitted to participate in individual classes at Freehold because the University wants to keep these students at the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses.
The Center offers undergraduate degrees in a variety of fields.
However, the program has recently opened up several hundred places for students of Rutgers College in light of the recent budget cuts. Students who would like to take advantage of the program options at Freehold will now be able to take these classes in limited numbers year-round.
Transferring credits is not an issue, as the courses are simply credited as Rutgers courses that appear automatically on the student's transcript.
As with all other campuses, diplomas show that participants in the program graduated Rutgers University - along with the college that sponsored their baccalaureate degree. For instance, liberal studies majors graduate from University College - Camden.
The Center offers students degrees in criminal justice, labor studies and employment relations, liberal studies and nursing.
Some facilities for these majors are located on campuses nearby.
Approximately 500 students enroll through the program each year. These programs fall under the Division of Continuous Education and Outreach of the university.
Raphael Caprio - vice-president of Continuous Education and Outreach - said the Center has the same mix of faculty that students will see at the University's three main branches: adjuncts, teaching assistants, full-time professors and department chairs.
The coordinator for the partnership, Joe Walsh, acts as an off-campus academic adviser.
Concerning what will happen with the program after the University's New Brunswick/Piscataway liberal arts colleges are consolidated into the School of Arts and Sciences, Walsh said, "We don't know. We're waiting to hear like everybody else."
Barbara Fiorella, assistant vice president for Distributed Program Access, Contracts and Support Services, said she expects the partnership will continue to operate the same way it has in the past.
But University College's imminent absorption into the School of Arts and Sciences next fall could change the program.
Sometime in the next few years, the Rutgers will launch at Atlantic Cape Community a partnership similar to the one it maintains with the Brookdale Center.
The partnership will offer classes as a convenience to students who might benefit from not having to commute. The Freehold program is also striving to expand it class options in the fields of management and environmental science.
Future of Freehold partnership uncertain
Timothy Person/Contributing Writer
No, the University doesn't have a fourth campus, but at the Western Monmouth Higher Education Center, students can take courses whose credits can be easily transferred to transcripts at Rutgers.
But with college consolidation looming, the fate of this exchange program is unclear, officials said.
The Center, which is also a campus of Brookdale Community College, primarily serves Freehold-area University students are place-bound, meaning they are in need of classes in their local area for various reasons.
The partnership between the University and the Center gives New Jersey undergraduates the ability to continue their education with credited classes year-round.
These students apply to Rutgers College and, if accepted, pursue their undergraduate degrees in Freehold. Rutgers College students are generally not permitted to participate in individual classes at Freehold because the University wants to keep these students at the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses.
The Center offers undergraduate degrees in a variety of fields.
However, the program has recently opened up several hundred places for students of Rutgers College in light of the recent budget cuts. Students who would like to take advantage of the program options at Freehold will now be able to take these classes in limited numbers year-round.
Transferring credits is not an issue, as the courses are simply credited as Rutgers courses that appear automatically on the student's transcript.
As with all other campuses, diplomas show that participants in the program graduated Rutgers University - along with the college that sponsored their baccalaureate degree. For instance, liberal studies majors graduate from University College - Camden.
The Center offers students degrees in criminal justice, labor studies and employment relations, liberal studies and nursing.
Some facilities for these majors are located on campuses nearby.
Approximately 500 students enroll through the program each year. These programs fall under the Division of Continuous Education and Outreach of the university.
Raphael Caprio - vice-president of Continuous Education and Outreach - said the Center has the same mix of faculty that students will see at the University's three main branches: adjuncts, teaching assistants, full-time professors and department chairs.
The coordinator for the partnership, Joe Walsh, acts as an off-campus academic adviser.
Concerning what will happen with the program after the University's New Brunswick/Piscataway liberal arts colleges are consolidated into the School of Arts and Sciences, Walsh said, "We don't know. We're waiting to hear like everybody else."
Barbara Fiorella, assistant vice president for Distributed Program Access, Contracts and Support Services, said she expects the partnership will continue to operate the same way it has in the past.
But University College's imminent absorption into the School of Arts and Sciences next fall could change the program.
Sometime in the next few years, the Rutgers will launch at Atlantic Cape Community a partnership similar to the one it maintains with the Brookdale Center.
The partnership will offer classes as a convenience to students who might benefit from not having to commute. The Freehold program is also striving to expand it class options in the fields of management and environmental science.
