CHARLOTTE – There’s more and more talk these days of students starting their post-secondary education at a community college, then transferring to a four-year university.

And UNC Charlotte Chancellor Philip Dubois welcomes it.

“Of our incoming class of new students … about 47 percent are transfer students,” Dubois says in the accompanying video.

“And those transfer students come in a lot of different flavors, many from the community colleges – and we’re the leading transfer institution in the (UNC) System from community colleges.  Then some come from other four-year institutions, inside North Carolina and outside North Carolina,” Dubois says.

“This is really a reflection of our institutional history as Charlotte College, when we were a two-year institution.  And we really live and breathe that kind of DNA – it’s been a long part of our history, and we always have close relationships with our neighboring community colleges.”