NVCC 1996-1997 Catalog
Servicemembers Opportunity College
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NVCC has been designated as an institutional member of Servicemembers
Opportunity Colleges (SOC), a group of over 1,000 colleges and universities
providing voluntary postsecondary education to members of the military
throughout the world. As a SOC member, NVCC recognizes the unique nature of
the military lifestyle and has committed itself to easing the transfer of
relevant course credits, providing flexible academic residency requirements,
and crediting learning from appropriate military training and experiences.
SOC has been developed jointly by educational representatives of each of the
Armed Services, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and a consortium of 14
leading national higher education associations; it is sponsored by the
American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and the
American Association of Community and Junior Colleges (AACJC).
In addition to its SOC membership, NVCC is one of approximately 50
institutions providing occupational and flexible Servicemembers
Opportunity Colleges Associate Degree programs on over 500 Army installations worldwide. These
programs lead to associate degrees and most of them correspond to enlisted
and warrant officer job specialties. Through prior agreement, students in
SOCAD programs:
- have residency credit limited to 1/4 of total degree requirements taken
at any time;
- are awarded credit for experience in their military occupational
specialty (MOS) and service schools as appropriate to their program;
- are awarded credit for non-traditional learning based on results of
national tests, such as CLEP and SSTs, as appropriate to their program;
- have a SOCAD Student Agreement completed as their official evaluation
stating remaining degree requirements and eliminating the need for
reevaluation of previous credit;
- are guaranteed that courses listed in transferability charts in the
SOCAD Handbook will be accepted for degree requirements within each
curriculum area.
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