Asee peer logo

Articulation of Military Earned College Credit into the University of North Carolina University System

Download Paper |

Conference

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Columbus, Ohio

Publication Date

June 24, 2017

Start Date

June 24, 2017

End Date

June 28, 2017

Conference Session

Military and Veterans Constituent Committee Division Technical Session 1

Tagged Division

Military and Veterans

Page Count

8

DOI

10.18260/1-2--27613

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/27613

Download Count

524

Paper Authors

biography

Janet C. Ford Western Carolina University

visit author page

Janet Ford, Juris Doctor, is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business at Western Carolina University and teaches in the area of business law.

visit author page

biography

George D. Ford Western Carolina University

visit author page

Dr. George Ford P.E. is an associate professor in the Construction Management Department at Western Carolina University.

visit author page

Download Paper |

Abstract

The University of North Carolina System includes seventeen campuses. At the XXX campus, the faculty and staff have been in collaboration to determine the best practices to integrate American Council on Education (ACE) credit recommendations into an easy to follow guide which academic advisors may use to advise military students and veterans. The difficulty in generating a standard articulation lies in the situation created by an extensive variety of training the military provides and a similar set of regionally accredited university academic programs. Service members often choose academic programs not related to their service occupations. The amount of credit service members receive varies widely with time in service and occupational area. Likewise, university program administrators must maintain regional accreditation standards and often professional accreditation standards such as the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for business programs and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) for engineering and technology programs. The University of North Carolina System (UNCS) requires a core of liberal studies courses in all programs of study on all campuses. The UNCS articulates credit with the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS). The liberal studies core is waived for all NCCCS graduates from associate of arts (AA) or associate of science (AS) degree programs which are typically aligned with four year curriculum. NCCCS graduates from associate of applied sciences (AAS) programs which include occupational, vocational programs do not receive the same waiver. This program examines the potential to create a waiver for military students and veterans with particular emphasis on credit earned at the senior noncommissioned officer (NCO) rank levels. A variation of the liberal studies waiver offers the most promising model for a statewide, standard articulation. A review of the process that any transfer student undergoes to transfer to a program at the XXX campus of the UNCS is also discussed.

Ford, J. C., & Ford, G. D. (2017, June), Articulation of Military Earned College Credit into the University of North Carolina University System Paper presented at 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Columbus, Ohio. 10.18260/1-2--27613

ASEE holds the copyright on this document. It may be read by the public free of charge. Authors may archive their work on personal websites or in institutional repositories with the following citation: © 2017 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference. - Last updated April 1, 2015