With this addition the Honors College now has four two-year partners. These 2 + 2 memoranda enable students from those two-year colleges to earn honors credits during their time there and then transfer those credits towards SAU's 24 hour honors credit minimum.
These 2 + 2 programs benefit students and their respective schools. Without them transferring into the SAU Honors College would be nearly impossible because, with only junior and senior years left, those students would have difficulty in reaching the honors credit minimum.
The new Honors Arkansas group fully supports two-year honors programs and is working to implement such MOUs statewide as part of its mission to:
- stop brain drain
- attract new out-of-state honors-qualified students
- make honors education more important to statewide leaders by collecting data on honors in the state
- create a common pipeline from the two-year schools to the honors colleges
