Discusses the baccalaureate program for occupational students at the School of Technical Careers at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, designed to ease transition and minimize articulation problems by automatically accepting the associate degree as the major concentration for the individualized program. (AC)

The materials contained in this package are designed to aid Community College of Vermont (CCV) associate degree students in the development and implementation of their own written, individualized, competence-based learning contracts. As development of the contract requires both assessment of prior learning and planning for sponsored learning, the…

Within broad guidelines provided by the Community College of Vermont (CCV), associate degree students write their own individualized, competence-based contracts. Development of the contract includes both assessment of prior learning, and planning for sponsored learning: These are integrated through a "degree development sequence" which includes a…