(Posted 3-17-00)
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TWO FROM AMONG FOUNDERS OF NEW ASSOCIATION

GREENSBORO--Beth W. Baldwin and  Henry Sholar, two staff members in the Division of Continual Learning at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, were among the founders of the nation's newest educational network, the National Alliance of Concurrent Education Partnerships  (NACEP).

Sholar and Baldwin are directors of the Fast Forward Program at UNCG. They are among 38 individuals who founded the organization. The group represents 30 secondary school-college partnership programs that have been working for three years on plans for national organization.

Concurrent enrollment programs (CEPs) are contemporary alternatives to the exam-driven Advanced Placement Program. These CEPs allow high school students to take college courses in their high schools.  Classes are taught by qualified high school teachers appointed as college adjuncts. Students in CEP courses earn college as well as high school credit, take courses identical to those given at the sponsoring college, and arrive in college already familiar with university expectations and practices.

NACEP's mission is to support and promote its constituent programs through quality initiatives, program development, research, and communication.  One goal of the Alliance is to develop standards for CEP programs and to establish a means to accredit such programs.

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