An agreement signed May 2 between Middle Tennessee State University and Columbia State Community College will help students majoring in early childhood education turn their associate degrees into bachelor’s degrees at MTSU’s Murfreesboro campus.

The agreement brings more transfer students into MTSU’s 101-year-old tradition of training Tennessee’s best teachers by easing Columbia State students’ access to the Bachelor of Science degree program in early childhood education at MTSU.

MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee and Columbia State President Janet F. Smith formally signed the agreement inside MTSU’s Student Union.

For more details on the agreement, visit mtsunews.com/mtsu-columbia-state-education-pact-2013.