CURRICULUM REVIEW SYSTEM
NPC Curriculum Contact
If you have any questions about the following information, or anything related to the curriculum, please contact our Curriculum Coordinator, Dr. Michael Broyles, at michael.broyles@npc.edu or 928-536-6236. Dr. Broyles also provides one-on-one training on NPC and the State of Arizona's curriculum systems.
Curriculum Information for Faculty
ACRES (the Academic Curriculum Review and Evaluation System) is an electronic means for creating, routing, evaluating and approving new courses, course modifications and course deletions within an institution. It allows faculty, staff and administrators to share information about course changes, and to access course information for various uses within their institutions. Lastly, it provides a means by which course information is submitted electronically into the Arizona Course Equivalency Tracking System (ACETS) for transfer articulation processing.
ACETS (Arizona Course Equivalency Tracking System) is designed to track course equivalency decisions as they go through the statewide articulation process in Arizona. ACETS supports all decision making required to establish equivalencies in Arizona, from the initial request for an equivalency evaluation, through the creation of a report to be used by Arizona university encoders. ACETS tracks the timeframe for course equivalency from source institution to target institution and triggers a report to target institutions when timelines are outside normal boundaries. A Target school records its decision within 45 days in ACETS and encodes it within 15 days. Institutions can check recent information activity by querying the database.
CEG (the Course Equivalency Guide) shows how courses transfer from community college to ASU, NAU and U of A. Be aware that the transferability of a course does not indicate how the course will apply to meet requirements for specific bachelor's degrees. For help understanding the CEG, contact Dr. Broyles, Curriculum Coordinator at NPC.