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____________________ February 1.2012
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Portland Community College District President Preston Pulliams (left) and Portland State University
President Wim Wiewel sign a new dual enrollment agreement at PCC's Downtown Center.
PSU and PCC Expand Co-Admission
Duel enrollment gives
students flexibility
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Portland Community College and Portland State
University have renewed a streamlined co-admis
sion agreement that makes it easier for students to
take classes at both institutions, live in PSU resi
dence halls and complete their degrees.
The two institutions started co-admitting stu
dents in 2001 after research on enrollment patterns
showed students were enrolling in multiple schools
on their own without the benefit of a structured
degree pathway - a trend called "swirling."
Duel enrollment gives students more coordi
nated support to meet their educational needs. The
new agreement establishes application deadlines,
allows students to apply online and opens PSU
housing to co-admitted students on a space avail
able basis.
The goal is to get more students into the educa
tional pipeline, according to PCC District President
Preston Pulliams.
Pulliams said Oregon ranks 27th in country in
the percentage of high school students going into
higher education - a number he hopes will improve
with this renewed Portland State partnership.
"We cannot stand alone any longer as institu
tions,” he said. “We have to come up with new and
creative ways of approaching this issue. For me
that’s what this program really represents. It raises
the number of students who can come to PCC and
PSU and be successful and move on with their
lives."
PSU President Kim Wiewel said 36 percent of all
of undergraduates at PSU started at PCC.
“That’s huge,” Wiewel said. “Among our senior
class, 43 percent of them are a PCC transfer
student. It’s absolutely an integral part of who we
are as an institution to have this relationship. To
continue to find ways to make it work better is
absolutely critical, and this is one step in that."
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