April 22, 2013
TO
LEA Superintendents
Career and Technical Education Directors
High School Principals
High School Counselors
Career Development Coordinators
FROM
Rebecca Garland
Career & College Promise Update: Release of CFNC.org CCP Application Process
The new Career & College Promise application process will be live at CFNC.org beginning April 24,
2013. This is the application functionality that many of your high school counselors and career development
coordinators received training for in February 2013. Whether or not you should plan to use this new
application process now is dependent upon two factors - first, whether or not your school has already begun
or completed the college application process for the Fall, and second, whether or not your partner
community college has decided to use this new electronic process to accept applications from high school
students wishing to participate in CCP. We hope that all colleges will use this time-saving and errorreducing electronic procedure, but some may choose to delay their implementation in the short-term.
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If your students have already started or completed their college application process for CCP, then
please do not plan to implement this procedure now. It will be in place and ready for use during the
next application round and you can use it at that time, assuming your partner college has completed
preparations to accept these applications from CFNC.org.
If your partner college has decided not to use this process or has not completed the technical
preparations needed to implement it, your students should use the college's existing process until the
college is ready for this one.
Please keep in mind that if you have students planning on taking courses at more than one partner college,
they will have to complete an application for each college. It is possible that one may use this electronic
procedure while the other uses an older process, including completion of a paper application. Please
coordinate with each community college partner to ensure your students follow the correct procedure for each.
ACADEMIC SERVICES AND INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT
Rebecca Garland, Ed.D., Chief Academic Officer | Rebecca.garland@dpi.nc.gov
6368 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-6368 | (919) 807-3200 | Fax (919) 807-3388
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER
The NC Community College System Office plans to deliver back-end application processing training to its
campuses statewide on the following dates:
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April 23, 2013 9:00 am-11:00 am
April 24, 2013 9:00 am-11:00 am
April 30, 2013 1:30 pm-3:30 pm
Upon completion of this training, community college staff will be prepared to load required software changes
to their systems and to begin accepting CCP student applications from CFNC.org. Because some colleges
may choose to wait an additional period, I encourage you to contact your college partners to determine their
implementation timeline.
On behalf of CFNC.org, the NC Community College System Office, and NC DPI, thank you for your
participation in this process and for your patience. Your questions, feedback, and suggestions for
improvement have been valuable to us throughout. Please feel free to continue offering your input and
suggestions in the future.
RBG/rth