Agreements

** Note: While some private senior institutions have signed on to the articulation agreement with this degree, at the time of this publication of this check sheet, the NC University System was still looking at this degree.

2+ Transfer Opportunities: In March 2018, the UNC Board of Governors and State Board of Community Colleges approved “The University of North Carolina Baccalaureate of Birth-Kindergarten and Early Childhood Related Programs and North Carolina Community College System Applied Associate in Early Childhood Education Programs” Uniform Articulation Agreement.

A similar agreement, the Independent Comprehensive Articulation Agreement (ICAA), is honored by many North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities.

Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Engineering College transfer programs are offered through the Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Engineering degrees.

Comprehensive Articulation Agreement Policy

Credit cannot be awarded for courses intended to transfer under the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement between the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Community College System.

The Associate in Arts and the Associate in Science programs are part of the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement (CAA), which governs the transfer www.wilkescc.edu 53 of student credit between institutions in the North Carolina Community College System and the constituent institutions of the University of North Carolina.

Total Semester Hours Credit (SHC) in Program: (32-41*) High school students in the CCP College Transfer Pathway Leading to the Associate in Arts must complete the entire pathway before taking additional courses in the Associate in Arts degree, except for mathematics courses in the Associate in Arts.

Under this program, eligible high school students may enroll in a College Transfer Pathway, and/or a Career and Technical Education Pathway, including a Workforce Continuing Education Pathway, and/or the Career and College Ready Pathway, or a Cooperative Innovative High School Program, known locally as an Early College High School.

Wilkes Community College, in partnership with Appalachian State University, and the public schools of Alleghany, Ashe, and Wilkes, collaboratively provide services to middle and high school students with the goal of increasing the number of students graduating from high school and continuing into college.