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C. Sandburg College Partners with Arizona State

Students in western Illinois can now complete their college degree with a university that's hundreds of miles, and several states away. This week, Carl Sandburg College announced a guaranteed admissions agreement with Arizona State University.

Director of Admissions, Rick Eddy, says once Sandburg students earn their Associate Degree, they can complete their four-year degree on campus at Arizona State, or online.

ASU already has similar agreements with several community colleges in the Chicago area.

"In a rural area we have that need also - for people who are place-bound because of work or family, that can't just up and move to a four-year school, and a dorm, and that type of thing."

Eddy says Carl Sandburg already has similar transfer agreements with some four-year colleges in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri, but this will be the first one allowing for online classes.

He says since the first announcement of this agreement, he's already received several phone calls, asking for more information. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.