ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, February 13, 1996 TAG: 9602130106
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER
Wytheville Community College graduates with at least a C average can now transfer to Radford University as full-fledged juniors, with the courses they have completed applying toward their bachelor's degrees.
They will get equal treatment with upper-division students, rather than being put back with incoming freshmen, when they line up for such services as registration, campus housing and scholarship applications.
In fact, two new $1,000 scholarships in business and accounting will go specifically to Wytheville Community graduates who are entering Radford University in those fields. They will be among 10 existing scholarships open to community college graduates.
"We're interested in boosting our enrollment, and we make no secret of that," Radford President Douglas Covington said Monday, just before he and Wytheville Community College President William Snyder signed the guaranteed admission agreement in Wytheville.
"But we know, too, that when we attract students who graduate from this college, we attract quality," he said."I believe that our institutions are compatible ... Many of our academic programs seem to mesh."
Radford has a similar agreement for graduates of Dabney S. Lancaster Community College at Clifton Forge. Snyder said it is the first agreement of its kind for Wytheville.
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