RPS Associate Program Guidelines Requirements to Register for the Associate Program: ● Student going into junior year. Associate is a two year program. Students start the program in junior year with the goal of finishing by graduation.
● Student must have a cumulative 3.0 GPA at time of application ● Student must have appropriate college-level placement scores ● Approval from high school counselor ● Register by the deadline for Associate Registration for that cohort Associate’s Programs offered through RPS in partnership with NWACC: Students are able to choose from one of the following five degree plans. These are the only 5 plans that are offered as part of this partnership.
● Associate of Arts ● Associate of Science ● Associate of Arts in Teaching ● Associate of Science in Business Administration: UA Walton College of Business Transfer ● Associate of Business, General Transfer Requirements Necessary to Remain in the ECE Program: ● Maintain at least a 3.0 GPA in high school ● Maintain at least a 2.5 GPA in your NWACC coursework ● Pass any pre-requisite courses with a C or better Additional Expectations of the Associate Program: ● Pass all courses enrolled in with a semester GPA of 2.5 or higher in NWACC classes and remain a student in good standing. ● Students who receive one D, F, NP, or W in a semester will need to meet with their counselor with a parent to discuss continuing in the program and set up a plan for improvement for the following semester. It will be up to the student to make a plan with their NWACC advisor to plan for the course to be made up. (Courses taken over the summer that are make up may be at the expense of the student if they have used all of their ACCESS funding for the year. Students can only retake a course once with ACCESS funding).
● Students who receive more than one D, F, NP, or W in a semester or over the course of the program will have a meeting with their parent, counselor, and an administrator to have a meeting about dismissal from the program. These courses are part of their permanent college record and we want to make sure that the student will be starting off successfully at their postsecondary institution.