Southeast Missouri State University and Mineral Area College look to resolve dispute

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) – Once you consider neighborhood faculty, you may even see it as an inexpensive option to get the next schooling diploma.

For some college students in Cape Girardeau County, proper now the long run is murky in the case of a neighborhood faculty schooling.

It’s due to a dispute between SEMO and Mineral Space Faculty.

The partnership between Three Rivers Group Faculty and Southeast Missouri State in Cape Girardeau is coming to an finish. The Cape Faculty Middle allowed college students to take courses for faculty credit score in the direction of a level at both faculty .

Now, Mineral Space Faculty based mostly in Park Hills, is changing Three Rivers, and would really like to have the ability to provide a two yr diploma with out SEMO’s involvement.

These could be levels in commerce or well being professions.

President, Dr. Joe Gilgour stated it may benefit college students in Cape County.

“We now have met with faculty districts in Cape County and surrounding areas and overwhelmingly they inform us that the Cape Faculty Middle is complicated for college students, college students typically don’t know which faculty they’re going to,” Gilgour stated.

Gilgour’s purpose is to make a stand-alone neighborhood faculty.

“We actually don’t really feel that us simply taking the spot of Three Rivers Group Faculty in that setting is nice for college students. Financially it might work, considerably, it might be just a little little bit of a stretch. we actually don’t really feel prefer it’s a very good setup for college students,” he stated.

Southeast President, Dr. Carlos Vargas stated having a separate faculty providing basic schooling courses might negatively impression the college and he’d moderately transfer ahead in a partnership like Three Rivers.

“And supply college students with entry to basic schooling by sharing income and bills to function that means and by having the scholars have the ability to obtain a number of the help companies the college has in place,” Vargas stated.

A mediator with the Coordinating Board for Larger Schooling is working with each colleges to assist them attempt to attain an settlement.

“We hope that they’ll sit down with us and hopefully conform to the prevailing settlement and methods to truly improve it and do it collectively as a result of I believe that’s going to profit the scholars on this area higher than the rest,” Vargas stated.

If SEMO and Mineral Space Faculty don’t attain an settlement, the Coordinating Board for Larger Schooling will make a remaining resolution.

Till that call is made, the scholars is not going to know the place they’re going to faculty.

Southeast’s Vice President stated they’re working with present CCC college students to supply them scholarships to proceed their schooling on the college.

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