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Dual Credit helps high school students get headstart at CU Laura Bishop, a Green County High School senior and the daughter of Debbie Murray, Columbia, KY, will be a full semester ahead of most entering freshmen in the fall of 2008, when she enters the College of Nursing See a note from Laura's mother, Debbie Murray about her daughter By Joan C. McKinney Special ColumbiaMagazine.com storyLaura Bishop, the daughter of Debbie Murray, Columbia, KY, always wanted to be a nurse. Her plan is to be accepted to Campbellsville University School of Nursing the same fall of the year she graduates from Green County High School in Greensburg, KY. Through CU's Dual Credit Program, she's been able to earn college hours at the same time she is earning high school credits at Greensburg High School. When she graduates from Green County High School in spring 2008, she will already have 18 college credit hours before she enters Campbellsville University in fall 2008. She will have a big head start over many other freshmen by fall 2008. Bishop has taken U.S. History, English 4 and Pre-Calculus, all honors classes, and a summer class at CU called Computer Concepts and Applications. She plans to take psychology before she graduates from high school and plans to take anatomy in summer 2008. Her Dual Credit courses, taken while a high school student in Greensburg, have allowed her to, in her words, to "accomplish that extravagant goal" of studying to become a nurse. Bishop is among a growing number of students who get the jump on college by enrolling in college classes while they are still in high school. JoAnn Wever heads Campbellsville University's College of Nursing, and a meeting with her helped Bishop understand the curriculum she'd need to follow at CU to realize her dream. "During my university Computer Concepts class, I had met the dean of the nursing school, who is a wonderful woman," Laura Biship recalls, "and I was fortunate to speak with her about completing the classes required for nursing school." "Dual credit has prepared me for college," Laura Bishop said. "It has allowed me to see how a college classroom will be before I get there. "I believe that you can never have too much or any wrong education, and dual credit has allowed me to study in many different fields while achieving my main goals." Bishop said, because she took dual credit courses, she has all of the required courses completed, and this will allow her to apply to the nursing program during her first year of college. "That would have to be the greatest achievement that dual credit has helped me with," she said. Bishop said she was aware, in high school, there were some courses at CU to take as dual credit. "I didn't know very many details, but I was sure that would be a brilliant way for me to start my college experience," she said. She said the GCHS guidance counselor, Tammy Thompson, informed the students about the details and fundamentals to dual credit. She said Sharon Gowin came to Green County High School and "told us about how much it would cost, how many credit hours we would earn and when the deadlines were." Gowin is assistant to the director of admissions at CU, and works with the Dual Credit Program, She said Gowin also talked personally with her in her office on campus and explained the program to her. "My teachers were also a big asset and I would like to thank them, not only for giving me the opportunity to learn, but also taking time to complete such high levels of education so that my generation can better themselves more efficiently," Bishop said. Debbie Murray, her mom, has "really helped me," Laura Bishop says. Debbie Murray commutes daily from her home in Columbia, KY, to work at CU's Office of Information Technology. "If I had any questions about my class work, she was there to help, Ms. Bishop added, "If I didn't know something about the financial things my mom would most definitely be there to help me answer those," she said. The Dual Credit Program offers these advantages:
In 2005, Campbellsville University enrolled more Dual Credit students than any other independent college in Kentucky, Walters said. The program set a school record in fall 2006 with 518 students entering the program from 22 different school systems across the state. For information on Dual Credit at Campbellsville University, call (270) 789-5220 or e-mail sgowin@campbellsville.edu. The writer, Joan C. McKinney, is Director of Communications at Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, KY This story was posted on 2007-11-05 11:45:42
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