Section III: Programs

(Educational Programs: Undergraduate Programs)

3.5.2.  The institution awards degrees only to those students who have earned at least 25 percent of the credit hours required for the degree through instruction offered by that institution.  

JUDGMENT OF COMPLIANCE

Compliance.

NARRATIVE/JUSTIFICATION FOR JUDGMENT OF COMPLIANCE

Northeast Alabama Community College demonstrates compliance.

 

The NACC Catalog states that a student must complete at least 25 percent of semester credit hours at the college granting the degree. The Catalog is published annually both in print and online.

 

The Catalog statement is a direct relay of State Board Policy 715.01.

 

The requirement that 25 percent of semester credit hours toward a degree be earned at NACC is checked by the Office of the Dean of Instruction as part of the process of certifying candidacy for a degree.

 

Table 1 summarizes the degrees of transfer-in students since 1998 and shows that the minimum percentage of degree hours earned at NACC by transfer-in graduates was 26 percent.

 

Table 1

Northeast Alabama Community College

Transfer-in Students who Graduated at NACC 1998 - 2003*

Percentage of Degree Hours Earned at NACC

Degree

Number of Transfer-in Students Who Graduated

Min Hrs Required for Degree

Range of Hours Earned at NACC

Minimum % Degree Hours Earned at NACC

AA

10

60

34 - 131

56%

AS

51

60

16   -  131

26%

AAS

120

60

22 -  203

36%

*Analysis completed December 23, 2003. Does not include graduates of December 2003.

Source:  AS/400 database query by Office of Institutional Effectiveness.

 

SUPPORT DOCUMENTATION

Source

URL/Special Instructions
Graduation Requirements: Degrees. NACC Catalog 2003-2004, p. 31 www.nacc.edu/sacspage/sacs/Catalogpage31.pdf
State Board of Education Policy 715.01, "Graduation Requirements: Degrees" http://www.acs.cc.al.us/board/Policies/715-01.pdf

www.nacc.edu/sacspage/sacs/stateboardpolicy715.01.pdf
Transfer-in Analysis Query www.nacc.edu/sacspage/sacs/transfer-inquery.pdf

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