SAU President Dr. David Rankin signs a Memorandum of Understanding with Cossatot Community College-UA. The Memorandum lays out the details for an Agri-Business program that will enable students in southwest Arkansas to take freshman and sophomore level courses at De Queen before completing a bachelor’s degree at Magnolia.
MAGNOLIA – Southern Arkansas University and Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas have formalized a Memorandum of Understanding that will put in place the required faculty and curriculum to allow CCCUA students to pursue a Bachelor of Science in Agri-Business at the De Queen campus.
SAU will offer three classes on the De Queen campus to provide for the seamless transfer of CCCUA students into the Agricultural-Business course of study offered at SAU upon completion of an associate’s degree from CCCUA. The classes are: Crops with lab, Principles of Agricultural Economics, and Elements of Forestry with lab. Other agricultural courses required for the Agricultural-Business program will be offered at De Queen as they become practical. The business courses required for this degree are currently offered online through SAU in Magnolia.
Admission requirements for this program are the same as the Agriculture program on the SAU campus. Fifty-three hours of credit, in addition to the associate’s degree, will be required for graduation.
Freshman- and sophomore-level courses applicable to the SAU Agri-Business Degree will be applicable to the associate’s degree students at CCCUA. Admission and registration will be completed on the CCCUA campus.
CCCUA Chancellor-Elect Steve Cole said, “The program may utilize distance technology as well as face-to-face instruction. Support is available both locally and through distance technology from the ITS support faculty and staff on the SAU campus.”
Students and faculty working in the CCCUA/SAU program have access to all of the SAU campus library resources. Access to SAU library resources is summarized and facilitated through the SAU Library’s distance learning Web pages.
