Southeast planning to partner with TRCC
Bailey Reutzel
Issue date: 11/5/09 Section: News
The Board of Regents recently approved in concept a partnership between Southeast and Three Rivers Community College so that the Cape Girardeau area can offer community college-type programs.
The partnership between the two higher education facilities is a three-year pilot experiment to determine if this kind of program will be successful. The agreement will allow community college level courses to be taught at Southeast, and in return some Southeast classes will be taught at Three Rivers.
Southeast President Dr. Ken Dobbins and the newly inaugurated President of Three Rivers, Dr. Devin Stephenson, have met and discussed the proposal and the strengths and weaknesses of both schools. Although the Board of Regents approved the proposal there are still several issues that need clarification before the plan is finalized. Some of the issues to be resolved include the staffing at both institutions, students and money lost and gained, and on a lighter note, the name for the program.
Dr. Gary Johnson, associate dean and professor of accounting at the Donald L. Harrison College of Business, said, "It [the partnership] seems like a reasonable arrangement since they're in our backyard," but he also admits he thinks "staffing will be the big issue."
This worry is in most people's minds, both here at Southeast and at Three Rivers, but Southeast's Vice President of Finance and Administration Kathy Mangels explained that professors, but instead use the renewable instructors the university already has. She also explained that the instructors from Southeast who teach at Three Rivers would be paid the Southeast professor salary.
The more detailed information from the common hour meeting held Wednesday by President Dobbins was embargoed until Monday.
The partnership between the two higher education facilities is a three-year pilot experiment to determine if this kind of program will be successful. The agreement will allow community college level courses to be taught at Southeast, and in return some Southeast classes will be taught at Three Rivers.
Southeast President Dr. Ken Dobbins and the newly inaugurated President of Three Rivers, Dr. Devin Stephenson, have met and discussed the proposal and the strengths and weaknesses of both schools. Although the Board of Regents approved the proposal there are still several issues that need clarification before the plan is finalized. Some of the issues to be resolved include the staffing at both institutions, students and money lost and gained, and on a lighter note, the name for the program.
Dr. Gary Johnson, associate dean and professor of accounting at the Donald L. Harrison College of Business, said, "It [the partnership] seems like a reasonable arrangement since they're in our backyard," but he also admits he thinks "staffing will be the big issue."
This worry is in most people's minds, both here at Southeast and at Three Rivers, but Southeast's Vice President of Finance and Administration Kathy Mangels explained that professors, but instead use the renewable instructors the university already has. She also explained that the instructors from Southeast who teach at Three Rivers would be paid the Southeast professor salary.
The more detailed information from the common hour meeting held Wednesday by President Dobbins was embargoed until Monday.
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