Wesleyan Honors Acadamy
by Lois Meyer
February 10, 2008
Sutton High School currently has a joint arrangement with Nebraska Wesleyan University’s Honors Academy Advanced High School College Credit Program and Lois Meyer’s Senior College English course. This arrangement provides students taking this class the option of receiving six semester hours of college credit. Students in this course who enroll with Nebraska Wesleyan, pay the tuition fee, and successfully complete the entire high school course, will receive both high school credit on their high school transcript and six semester hours of credit on a Nebraska Wesleyan University transcript.
Students do not have to attend Nebraska Wesleyan after they graduate in order to take advantage of this credit. If a student decides to go to another college or university, upon receiving a written request, the Nebraska Wesleyan Registrar will mail a copy of their transcript to the college or university they choose to attend. While Nebraska Wesleyan cannot guarantee that its credit will be accepted by every other college or university, their experience has been that most colleges and universities will accept their transfer grades of “C” or higher. Normally the credit is transferable because the student is actually enrolled at Nebraska Wesleyan in a course listed in the Wesleyan catalog. It is, therefore, the Nebraska Wesleyan course and number rather than the high school course that appears on the Wesleyan transcript. In this case the transcript will read:
Eng. 001 3 cr. hrs. (Grade)
Eng. 002 3 cr. hrs. (Grade)
Nebraska Wesleyan University is a nationally recognized liberal arts college. U.S. News and World Report has cited Nebraska Wesleyan for several years as one of the best colleges of its kind in the nation. Nebraska Wesleyan is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and is accredited by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP), whose guidelines it follows for this dual credit program. (www.nacep.org)
