Education can be delivered from the instructor's desktop to yours. Your desktop can be anywhere you have access to a computer with an Internet connection and appropriate software. You do your course work and earn college credits on a flexible schedule which is most appropriate to you. You have the opportunity to interact with experts, draw on extensive Internet information resources, and work with other students in a global, cyberspace environment. The five courses which College of The Albemarle is offering Fall Semester 1997 are all college curriculum courses identically the same as courses offered on-campus.
Completion earns semester hour credits applicable to associate degrees.
All courses meet the description of courses in the North Carolina Community College System's Common Course Library. Three of the five courses are approved for transfer under the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement between the University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Community College System. We were the first state to recognize that training people for specific jobs in specific companies was a legitimate enterprise for a responsible and responsive government. Good training leads to a long list of advantages. Advantages that have put North Carolina at the top in the nation for new plant sitings in four out of the last five years, sustaining a trend that has made us a leading manufacturing state.