how to set an associate degree program

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  1. rdl50

    rdl50 New Member

    I am working in the caribbiean in a 600 room hotel.

    I have written a training program which is crammed with information from when I did my apprenticeship for working in the hospitality industry (waiter/server/bartender)

    I am looking to see if i can get either a diploma ( in the UK HND) or in american terms an associate degree connected to the program.

    I want my staff to get this diploma or degree.

    Is there anybody who can either point me to a university or college who is flexible in this regard? Or even a website dedicated to this?

    Thank you
     
    rdl50, Oct 14, 2006
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  2. Jigamafloo

    Jigamafloo New Member

    Penn State offers a distance learning Associates in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management.

    This is a link to the distance degrees they offer. Good luck!

    Dave
     
    Jigamafloo, Oct 14, 2006
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  3. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    Let's see if I understand you correctly.

    You have developed a hospitality training program that you believe is the equivalent to an U.S. Associate's degree or a UK Foundation degree or HND, or other two-year diploma.

    You would like people to be able to complete your training and receive an Associate's degree from an established institution.

    You hope to do this by setting up a partnership between yourself and an institution that would issue the qualifications.

    Are we on the same page?

    -=Steve=-
     
    SteveFoerster, Oct 14, 2006
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  4. rdl50

    rdl50 New Member

    To: SteveFoerster

    yes we are on the same page. but let me explain a bit:

    I did the training program about 10 years ago and when i went back to college i got accreditted with about one year worth of credits from my university.

    So looking now at my post, it may seem a bit ambitious to get a HND or associate degree based on this program. I still would like to try and set up some kind of international recogniton for this program. The isalnd that i work on is called St Kitts and is a very small island. No university has a campus here.

    So let me try again:

    Based on the training program i would like to get my staff to get an international recognized diploma, realizing that an HND is/ might not be possible.

    Can anybody give me some directions or pointers?

    :confused:
     
    rdl50, Oct 19, 2006
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  5. Mighty_Tiki

    Mighty_Tiki Member

    ACE

    One route you could take is that you could have your training program evaluated by these guys :

    ACE

    this would give you a general idea in what it is equivalent too as far as college courses/credits. After that you could go to a lot of different RA/NA schools in the US since a lot accept ACE recommendations for credit. All you have to do is pick whichever will give you the most credits and then take the additional required residency classes. One side note is that I highly doubt you will find any RA or NA school for that matter that will take a training program as total equivalency of a degree without taking some classes from the home school where the degree is to be issued from.
     
    Mighty_Tiki, Oct 19, 2006
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  6. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    ACE evaluation is one possibility.

    If you're in St. Kitts, have you approached Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College to see about establishing a relationship? I'd think that would be the logical first step.

    -=Steve=-
     
    SteveFoerster, Oct 19, 2006
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  7. pugbelly

    pugbelly New Member

    I like the ACE route..it would give the program instant credibility. I also think the training program itself would not be sufficient to satisfy the requirements of an Associate degree. The Associate degree will have general education requirements, probably somewhere between 18-30 hours of them (some core, some elective), that would have to be earned from an establsihed college or university. You may have success in trying to put together a Certificate program of 30 hours (not unlike a Paralegal Certification Program). If successful, you could then try to pitch it to a university as part of an Associate degree.

    Pug
     
    pugbelly, Oct 20, 2006
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  8. SteveFoerster

    SteveFoerster Resident Gadfly Staff Member

    I like the ACE route..it would give the program instant credibility.

    In the U.S. yes, but not in the Caribbean, which is where all the prospective students are. If rdl50 works something out with the national college, then those credits will count at home and also in the U.S. once sent to a foreign transcript evaluator.

    Of course, the best thing to do would be both.

    I also think the training program itself would not be sufficient to satisfy the requirements of an Associate degree. The Associate degree will have general education requirements, probably somewhere between 18-30 hours of them (some core, some elective), that would have to be earned from an establsihed college or university. You may have success in trying to put together a Certificate program of 30 hours (not unlike a Paralegal Certification Program). If successful, you could then try to pitch it to a university as part of an Associate degree.

    Agreed, that makes sense.

    -=Steve=-
     
    SteveFoerster, Oct 20, 2006
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