Albany Technical College and Turner Job Corps will hold a Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) articulation agreement signing ceremony on Today, beginning at 10am in the Executive Board Room of Albany Tech’s Logistics Education Center at 1704 South Slappey Boulevard.

In support of the Complete College Georgia agenda, the goal with the articulation agreement is to assist and promote Prior Learning Assessment in the transferability of the Turner Job Corps Training Achievement Record to the associated Diploma or Associate of Applied Science degree at Albany Tech.

“Albany Technical College has pledged to identify best practices in prior learning assessment and this agreement with Turner Job Corps is an excellent example,” said Elizabeth Brown, Prior Learning Assessment Coordinator for Albany Technical College.

The Turner Job Corps courses include Culinary Arts, Electrical, Carpentry, Medical Administration Assistant, Office Administration, and Welding. These courses will transfer to an Albany Tech Culinary Arts Diploma and Hotel, Restaurant, Travel Management for Culinary Arts, Electrical Technology and Electromechanical Engineering Technology for Electrical, Carpentry Diploma for Carpentry, Medical Assisting Diploma for Medical Administration Assistant, Business Administrative Technology AAS degree for Office Administration, and Welding and Joining Technology Diploma for Welding.

In 2012, Complete College Georgia, challenged the Technical College System of Georgia, as well as the University System of Georgia, to improve graduation rates and the recommendations included increasing and improving partnerships and performance, including shortening the time to obtain a degree.

“The articulation agreement between Albany Technical College and Turner Job Corps meets the details in both of those recommendations,” added Brown.

‘For more than a decade Turner Job Corps students have been attending the Albany Technical College after completion of their program of study here at the Center. For the first time, they will be will acknowledged for their prior accomplishments, as they continue enhance their skills in their chosen career path,” said Rose Walker Cook, Center Director.