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DANIELSON --- The New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) awarded Quinebaug Valley Community College, as co-recipient, along with Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU), a 2011 New England Higher Education Excellence Award recognizing a dual enrollment initiative.
The Dual Enrollment Program is a partnership between ECSU, QVCC and Hartford Public High School to help inner city students attend college. The program is in its third year of operation and has successfully guided 16 of 19 students, who enrolled in the program’s first two years, through their college experience and are now sophomores and juniors.
Eastern and QVCC co-enroll Hartford Public High School graduates each fall, students who have the determination and potential to succeed, but who had not planned to attend college. The students take nine credits of remedial instruction at QVCC in their first semester, while also taking one course at Eastern, living in Eastern’s residence halls and fully involving themselves in campus life.