High school students across middle Tennessee are graduating with associate degrees from Motlow State Community College before they ever even receive their high school diplomas. Motlow has more high school Dual Enrollment students than any college in Tennessee.
Through the dual enrollment program, Motlow specializes in making sure students get a tremendous early college experience. Juniors and seniors in high school can take college-level courses at their high school or a nearby Motlow campus.
Recently, 35 students from LaVergne High School graduated from high school with associate degrees in general studies from Motlow already in hand.
âThis is a great partnership, and I am so thankful for this program,â said LaVergne High School Principal Theowauna Hatchett, a Motlow alumnus. She said this is the second year that the high school has offered the early college program, which had more than 40 graduates in its first year. âThe program teaches them to take the initiativ
POSITIVE: 35 LaVergne High students earn associate’s degree while graduating high school May 12, 2021 at 06:16 am by WGNS
Article / Photo by James Evans: LHS seniors Ricky Martin (left), Rawand Aziz and Paige Adekplor (not pictured) are graduating members of the Early College program and they have been accepted to New York University, Princeton University and Yale University, respectively.
RUTHERFORD COUNTY, TENN. - Paige Adekplor has never visited New Haven, Connecticut. Rawand Aziz has never been to Princeton, New Jersey. Ricky Martin has never stepped foot in Manhattan.
Yet all three LaVergne High School seniors are headed to those locations this summer, as they have been accepted to Yale University, Princeton University and New York University, respectively.