Quick Summary
- For 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 students who did not complete their degree work
- Californians who went to other colleges also are eligible
- Davis, Riverside campuses to enroll 1st cohort in winter 2023
- 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 provides 2-year allocation of $4.85 million in state funding
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Continuing and Professional Education is playing a central role in the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 system鈥檚 new Degree Completion Program, which will provide support to 鈥渟top-outs鈥 鈥 students who leave college without a degree 鈥 in their efforts to complete their studies.
The program is a strategy of the university鈥檚 , released July 21, which aims to increase 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 enrollment by 23,000 students over the next eight years 鈥 the equivalent of adding another campus.
The 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Degree Completion Program serves two populations: 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 students with incomplete degrees and California residents with some college and no degree attainment. It aims to reengage adults through extension programs, or, as they are called collectively at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis, continuing and professional education.
$4.85M in state funding
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis partnered with its extension counterpart at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Riverside to develop the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Degree Completion Program, and both schools will enroll the pilot cohort of students in winter 2023. 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 has allocated more than $4.85 million in state funds to support the program for two years.
The Davis and Riverside extension units are collaborating with existing degree completion programs at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Merced and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Santa Barbara. The four campuses have come together as the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Reengagement Consortium.
鈥淭he 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Degree Completion Program empowers adult learners by helping them address the barriers that prevent them from successfully completing their degree,鈥 said Susan Catron, dean of 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Continuing and Professional Education. 鈥淲e are excited to partner with our colleagues at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Riverside Extension, and the larger 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 community, to serve Californians who lack the credentials needed to advance their personal career goals.鈥
Flexible model
The program model is designed to be as flexible as possible to support working professionals, and unemployed and underemployed adults by helping with application fees, offering strong advising support, providing access to available 新澳门六合彩内幕信息-approved online courses, and alleviating challenges associated with familial and professional obligations that impede degree completion, transfer eligibility and certificate attainment.
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Continuing and Professional Education and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Riverside University Extension will not confer degrees directly but will provide pre-reentry college credit coursework and advising to students seeking readmission or transfer. Although the primary focus is re-entry and degree completion, under this program adults may also opt to complete professional certificate programs at the four collaborating campuses.
The Degree Completion Program is looking to support nearly 800 students in its first two years.
The 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis recruitment campaign will target 3,862 students in good standing, including 1,716 (44%) first-generation students and 1,095 (28%) underrepresented students. The campaign focuses on degree stop-outs from 2009 to 2018 who had completed 60 quarter units of instruction.
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Dateline Staff: Dave Jones, editor, 530-752-6556, dateline@ucdavis.edu; Cody Kitaura, News and Media Relations specialist, 530-752-1932, kitaura@ucdavis.edu.