BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana is expanding its efforts to ease the process for adults to return to college and for community college students to seamlessly transfer to universities.
The Board of Regents is growing its websites for the Center for Adult Learning, nicknamed CALL, and for the new Transfer Degree Guarantee program.
“We want to be the definitive source of information for higher education in Louisiana,” said Jim Purcell, the state’s new commissioner of higher education.
CALL started more than three years ago, but it is just beginning to expand more statewide after initially operating only as a pilot program within Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and Bossier Parish Community College.
Now CALL has expanded to Southeastern Louisiana University, McNeese State University and more with 20 online degree programs offered overall.
Likewise, the Transfer Degree Guarantee for the Louisiana Transfer Associate Degree started last year to ensure students can start at more affordable community colleges and automatically transfer to universities after earning their two-year degrees, Purcell said.
Schools like Baton Rouge Community College and LSU have their own partnerships like the Bears 2 Tigers transfer program, but the statewide Transfer Degree Guarantee sets up a statewide system for students, said Karen Denby, Regents associate commissioner for academic affairs.
