US Naval Community College Pilot

[MNomadic]

pilot info

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Main site

The United States Naval Community College (USNCC) is an educational association created by private and public higher education institutions that offer regionally accredited undergraduate and/or graduate degree programs. 
 
The USNCC Consortium increases educational opportunities and readiness for enlisted Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen by providing a naval-relevant curriculum asynchronously and online through a consortia of select civilian colleges and universities.  
 
The purpose of the USNCC Consortium is to establish a program for the enrollment of students to provide operationally relevant education across the maritime forces that is readily accessible, low cost, scalable, and fully transferable to four-year academic institutions of higher education.
The USNCC Consortium Agreement clearly defines roles and responsibilities (for both the home and host institution), credit acceptance (transfer of credits), assessment and oversight, faculty requirements, admissions, etc., in addition to outlining which institution will be the degree granting institution*. 
 
*Note that prior to USNCC achieving accreditation (pre-candidacy status), the partner institution will be the degree granting institution. Upon achieving post-candidacy (accreditation) status, the USNCC will become the primary associate degree grantor for participating USNCC students and partner institutions will continue to grant degrees for professional certificates in the designated concentration areas. The USNCC currently has conditional degree-granting authority from Congress dependent upon achieving accreditation.

Current partner institutions (ASU and Alexandria Technical Community College)

ASU page (I guess ASU has to keep up with new programs and partnerships to stay #1 in innovation   )

Degrees

• Military Studies (Arizona State University)
  
  
• Nuclear Engineering Technology (Alexandria Technical & Community College)
  
  
• Cybersecurity (Fall 2022)
  
  
• Aviation Maintenance Technology (Spring 2023)
  
  
• Data Analytics (Spring 2023)
  
  
• Logistics with a Maritime Focus (Spring 2023)
  
  
• Organizational Leadership (Spring 2023)
  

Certificates

• Naval Studies (US Naval Community College)
  
  
• Military Studies (Arizona State University)
  
  
• Fundamentals in Nuclear Engineering (Alexandria Technical & Community College)
  
  
• Cybersecurity (Fall 2022)
  
  
• Aviation Maintenance Technology (Spring 2023)
  
  
• Data Analytics (Spring 2023)
  
  
• Logistics with a Maritime Focus (Spring 2023)
  
  
• Organizational Leadership (Spring 2023)
  

Degree and Certificate Programs

Here's a fun blurb I found on WGU's site:

USNCC OPPORTUNITIES

WGU is honored to have been chosen to provide educational opportunities for active duty enlisted Sailors, Marines, and Coast Guardsmen from the United States Naval Community College (USNCC). WGU will offer USNCC military students an Associate of Science Cybersecurity and Information Assurance degree. 

[dfrecore]

So it will be similar to the CCAF. I'm also guessing that everything that's normally put on the JST will now go on the USNCC transcript instead. I wonder if the JST will go away entirely now (at least, going forward)? Because I can't see the Army being left behind here.

[MNomadic]

More details were released on the cybersecurity associate's through WGU
https://www.usncc.edu/Academics/Degree-P...te-Degree/

Also, a cybersecurity certificate program, also through WGU
https://www.usncc.edu/Academics/Degree-P...rtificate/

https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU/comments/uc...&context=3