SHU AND NCC TO SIGN SOCIAL WORK ARTICULATION AGREEMENT TO EASE STUDENT TRANSFERS
Fairfield, Connecticut th Sacred Heart University and Norwalk Community College will formally sign an articulation agreement to assure a seamless transfer for NCC students in social work. The ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 2, at 12:30 in the Boardroom of the William H. Pitt Health and Recreation Center at Sacred Heart.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Fairfield, Connecticut – Sacred Heart University and Norwalk Community College will formally sign an articulation agreement to assure a seamless transfer for NCC students in social work. The ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 2, at 12:30 in the Boardroom of the William H. Pitt Health and Recreation Center at Sacred Heart.
More than half of the graduates at Norwalk Community College transfer to four-year institutions including Sacred Heart, and the University already has an agreement in place to ease the transfer of business students. This new understanding will assure students in human services that the courses they are taking at Norwalk Community College will transfer to SHU’s four-year program in social work, eliminating costly and time-consuming surprises.
According to Professor Joan A. Pollack, director of the Baccalaureate Social Work Program at SHU, the University has more than 55 majors at present – students preparing for an accredited Bachelor of Social Work degree. Upon graduation, many students continue their educations by pursuing a Master of Social Work degree, or they begin professional careers in the field. Graduates are employed in a wide variety of settings from social agencies and schools to probation systems and centers for abused women. Sacred Heart BSW recipients can complete their master’s degrees in as little as two semesters.
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About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University, the second-largest Catholic university in New England, offers more than 40 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. Approximately 5,800 students attend the University’s four colleges: Arts & Sciences; Education & Health Professions; University College; and the AACSB-accredited John F. ( Jack ) Welch College of Business. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its “Best 368 Colleges: 2009,” U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges 2008” ranks SHU among the best master’s universities in the North, and Intel rates it #11 among the nation’s most “unwired” campuses. SHU fields 32 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu
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