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Villanova
University: An educationally driven and welcoming community
By Greg McGlone & Colleen Moughan
Villanova University’s statement of community ideals addresses Villanova
as a welcoming, educationally purposeful, selfless, just, caring and celebrative
community. Villanova demonstrated their responsibility, specifically as
a welcoming and educationally purposeful institution, with the recent articulation
agreement with Montgomery County Community College (MCCC), which established
an academic partnership between Villanova and MCCC.
According to www.dictionary.com, a partnership is a “relationship
between individuals or groups that is characterized by mutual cooperation
and responsibility, as for the achievement of a specific goal.” Now
a partner of MCCC, Villanova University will be working hand in hand with
MCCC in assisting their adult students in transferring into Villanova’s
new Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program. Not only will
this new program allow the MCCC adult student to reach their goal of obtaining
a Villanova University degree, but it also demonstrates Villanova’s
willingness to welcome members of other communities into their own, and
sharing with them the determined and prominent education that Villanova
is known for.
The new agreement will allow adult students at MCCC, upon the completion
of their associate degree, to transfer into Villanova's new Bachelor of
Interdisciplinary Studies degree. The requirements for the MCCC students
are that they finish their associate degree with a cumulative GPA of no
lower than a 2.0, complete a "Dual Admission Intent" form, and
satisfy all other Villanova transfer requirements for part-time study. Villanova
has also agreed to accept the general education requirements in the MCCC
associate in arts and associate in science degrees as meeting all the requirements
of its undergraduate education requirements. The only exceptions are Theology
1050 (Christianity: Tradition and Transitions) and CHS 1000 (Core Humanities
Seminar: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Thought), which must be completed
by the transfer students upon their admission to Villanova.
The new Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program, with concentrations
in General Studies, Information Systems and Leadership Studies, was designed
with an outlook towards the adult student's needs as well as major trends
within today's society. All three concentrations will highlight the major
elements of the Villanova core, including the humanities, ethics, philosophy,
quantitative and scientific theory and social sciences. This core provides
more choices as well as flexibility in order for adult students to select
classes in line with their personal interests and experiences.
The Office of Part-Time and Continuing Studies is pleased to be able to
offer this new degree to MCCC adult students. For more than 85 years now,
the Division of Part-time Studies has fulfilled the educational needs of
men and women who were unable to or did not choose to pursue a regular full-time
day program. Part-time Studies has continued to acknowledge that the non-traditional
aged student requires different needs than that of the traditional-aged
student, and with the creation of the new Bachelor of Interdisciplinary
Studies Degree Program, a more flexible core curriculum will meet the needs
of the non-traditional adult MCCC student.
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