{"id":22490,"date":"2016-01-19T10:10:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=22490"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T16:10:10","slug":"bemidji-pioneer-bsu-partners-with-northland-ctc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/19\/bemidji-pioneer-bsu-partners-with-northland-ctc\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji Pioneer: BSU partners with Northland CTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">BEMIDJI&mdash;A new program will allow students from Northland Community and Technical College to transfer to BSU without application fees, long wait times or concerns about getting in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Outlined in a release Friday, the NorthernConnect program offers a bridge for NCTC students who have earned an associate degree, to pursue a bachelor degree at BSU. It will grant &ldquo;guaranteed and accelerated admission&rdquo; to students who graduate from the two NCTC campuses in Thief River Falls and East Grand Forks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&ldquo;It provides options,&rdquo; said Carey Castle, NCTC vice president of academic and student affairs. &ldquo;Students get the basic general education courses out of the way while living at home or nearby. Parents take advantage of two-year tuition and living costs.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The schools are also working to award reverse transfer degrees&mdash;an associate degree awarded to a student after he or she has transferred&mdash;to students who have gone on to BSU.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The NorthernConnect agreement will be signed Tuesday when officials from BSU and NCTC meet on NCTC&rsquo;s Thief River Falls campus at 10 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In addition to one- and two-year degrees, NCTC offers diploma certification, workforce training and continuing education programs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI&mdash;A new program will allow students from Northland Community and Technical College to transfer to BSU without application fees, long wait times or concerns about getting in. Outlined in a release Friday, the NorthernConnect program offers a bridge for NCTC students who have earned an associate degree, to pursue a bachelor degree at BSU. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22491,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22490\/revisions\/22491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}