The following policy outlines procedures for articulation and processing comparable course work between WNCC and secondary institutions in WNCC's service area. The type of articulation, 2+2 articulation, enables qualified high school students to earn college credit for successfully completing articulated high school classes.

Articulation

Articulation Agreements

Recruitment of Students

Credit for Classes

Section 1.  Articulation

A.  The WNCC administration, faculty, the Tech Prep Coordinator and Tech Prep Consortium will identify occupational, vocational and high technology areas of study for articulation.

B. The WNCC faculty member and high school teacher will exchange curricula, course and competency requirements for any course to be articulated.

Section 2.  Articulation Agreements

 A. The validation process for articulation agreements will be:

1.   The high school instructor will submit the following:

a.       Course outline

b.      Course objectives/competencies/outcomes

c.       Methods of instruction/strategies

(1)   Student evaluation process - procedures for measuring competencies and outcomes

(2)   Instructional materials

2.   The WNCC faculty member will compare competencies from the high school curriculum to the college course competencies. If the WNCC faculty member determines that the competencies are equivalent, the articulation agreement will be written.

3.   Articulated courses must be reviewed and renewed or terminated every three years.

4.   Articulation agreements will obtain the following signatures:

a.       WNCC faculty member from the program area articulated

b.      High school teacher from the program area articulated

c.       Tech Prep Coordinator

d.      High school principal

e.       Division Chair from the program area articulated

f.        Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs or Dean of Instruction

Section 3.  Recruitment of Students

A.  The WNCC Tech Prep Coordinator will actively recruit eligible students.

B.   The Tech Prep Coordinator will function as the liaison between WNCC faculty and staff, high school faculty and staff, and the Department of Education, State of Nevada.

C.  WNCC staff will assist interested students in the completion of required documents for admission to the Tech Prep Program and WNCC.

D.  The Tech Program will maintain records on each student and will provide copies of records to Admissions and Records when a student enrolls at WNCC. Tech Prep students will pay a $10.00 transcription fee.

Section 4.  Credit for Classes 

A.  In order for a student to receive credit for classes that have been formally articulated, the following process must be followed:

1.      The student must pass each articulated course/class with a grade of 'B' or higher.

2.      Tech Prep staff will collect grade rosters at the end of each course/class for all registered Tech Prep students in each articulated class.

3.      Grades will be transcripted at WNCC when the qualifying high school student successfully completes an articulated class.

B.   Students may complete up to 15 WNCC credits through the Tech Prep program, or no more than 50% of a WNCC program (which ever number is lower).

C.  Students will receive the same grade for the WNCC course as they did for the articulated high school tech prep class.

NSHE Code: Title 4, Chapter 14, Section 5 (5)

NSHE Board of Regents’ Meeting Minutes:  12/03