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Building Bridges with Community Colleges “Partnering for Educational Success”

Richard Newman, Lakshmi Munukutla, John Robertson

College of Technology and Applied Sciences Arizona State University East Mesa, Arizona

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The Arizona State University and the Maricopa Community Colleges have a history of collaboration that is acclaimed as a model across the nation. However, Arizona State University East and Maricopa Community College District together are working diligently to ele vate their educational partnership to a new level beyond traditional articulation. This paper describes the innovative nature of the educational partnership that exists between the two-year and four-year institutions at the Williams Campus.

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Arizona State University (ASU) and the Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) have a history of collaboration that is acknowledged as a model across the nation. In addition, Arizona State University East (ASU East) and Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) are working together diligently to enhance their educational partnership to a new level beyond traditional articulation that exists between the two-year and the States’ four-year institutions. The co-location of ASU East and CGCC at the Williams campus has provided numerous opportunities to bring this partnership to a new dimension. In a short five years it has moved well beyond the conventional articulation, described above. Joint curriculum development, infrastructure planning, academic scheduling and sharing institutional data have marked the uniqueness of the partnership between these two institutions. The special collaboration extends to housing and academic/student support services as well. The primary focus of this paper is to illustrate the innovative educational partnership and its benefits to the students attending ASU East, CGCC and other Maricopa Community Colleges.

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ASU East is a new campus of Arizona State University located in the city of Mesa, Arizona. It is at the former Williams Air Force Base in the southeast part of the Phoenix Metropolitan area; now known as the Williams Campus. The Williams Air Force Base conversion to a college campus has opened numerous opportunities to develop a unique partnership between two-year and four-year institutions. ASU and Maricopa Community Colleges both received substantial

Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright ã 2002, American Society for Engineering Education

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Newman, R., & Robertson, J., & Munukutla, L. (2002, June), Building Bridges With Community Colleges Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10639