New agreement eases path for students in agriculture business field
JOPLIN, Mo. — Crowder College and Missouri Southern are making it easier for students to break into one of the fastest-growing industries in the Four States.
The '2 plus 2' agreement signed today at MSSU's Billingsly Student Center formalizes a pathway for students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Business.
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Students will spend two years studying agriculture at Crowder.
Then, they'll complete business coursework in economics, finance, and management at Missouri Southern.
The agreement ensures that no credit hours are lost when students make the transfer.
'A lot of our students are working part-time, so they don't need to be repeating courses. The other part of it is, employers are waiting on talent. So the more that students have to repeat courses, the longer it takes the employers to get this talent into the workforce,' said Dr. Chett Daniel, Crowder College President.
'Crowder College has great resources in terms of a farm and that kind of hands-on agricultural education. That would be very expensive for us to do. So it just makes sense, especially in this academic area, to partner with Crowder to take advantage of their great resources,' said Dr. Dean Van Galen, Missouri Southern State University President.
Today's agreement is especially meaningful for Dr. Daniel.
Not only is it his first act as the president of Crowder College, it also mirrors his own journey as a first-generation college student who transferred from Crowder to Southern.
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