Students need to be graduates of an Early Childhood Associate in Applied Science program or have 60 semester hours towards that degree in order to be eligible for the cohort program, which begins next fall and ends in the spring of 2005. Students will take all but one course on the BRCC campus, with books available for purchase by mail from the WCU bookstore. Dr. Rogers presentation will emphasize that climate change is already well under way, and that planning for rapid warming and sea level rise in the next century is essential.
Admission is free.
Students do not need to complete the new requirements by the end of the year in order to avoid starting the process anew. The new GED tests will continue to cover the core academic areas of language arts, social studies, science and mathematics. While candidates will not be tested on the use of a calculator, one very visible change is that they will be permitted to use a calculator on one part of the mathematics test. Overall, the new GED tests will continue to follow the original purpose of providing a basis for conferring a high school equivalency diploma on adults who have not finished traditional high school. Passing standards are determined by administering the tests to graduating high school seniors, with the standard being that individuals earning a GED diploma outperform at least one-third of today s high school seniors, according to the American Council on Education.