ARTICULATION AGREEMENT
for transfer of credits between
The University of Wisconsin-Superior
Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting
and the
Northcentral Technical College
Accountant Associate of Applied Science Degree
Effective Dates: September 2014-June 2023
Review Date: December 2022
Introduction and Rationale:
The University of Wisconsin-Superior maintains an educational partnership with
Wisconsin State Colleges and Universities to provide opportunities for students to enter
bachelor’s degree completion programs. In the interest of fostering cooperation between
our institutions, and to better serve the transfer of students from Northcentral Technical
College to the University of Wisconsin-Superior, the faculty and administration of our
institutions have established this articulation agreement.
This Agreement specifies the transfer of credit from the Northcentral Technical College
Associate Degree named above to the UW-S Bachelor’s Degree named above in
recognition that the NTC program prepares students for admission to this Bachelor’s
degree program. The underlying assumption for this Agreement is that the college
provides a foundation of occupational courses and the University provides the upperlevel courses required within the Bachelor’s degree program.
NTC students who successfully complete the Accounting Associate of Applied Science
degree wishing to transfer to the University of Wisconsin-Superior will be awarded the
following credits toward a B.S. Degree in Accounting.
NTC Program
course #
course title
10101111
10101103
10101125
Accounting I
Accounting II
Cost Accounting
10101115
10101120
Accounting III
Accounting IV
UW-Superior Program
Cr
course #
course title
Major and General Studies Courses
4
ACCT 200 Financial Accounting
4
ACCT 189 Accounting Elective
3
ACCT 201 Managerial Accounting
4
4
ACCT 352
ACCT 289
Intermediate Accounting I
Elective
cr.
granted
31
5
3
32
5
1
10101121
Individual Tax Accounting
3
ACCT 460
Fundamentals of Taxation
33
10101135
10101122
10102160
10106144
10103115
10103120
10103136
Payroll Accounting
Cost Analysis
Business Law
10 Key
Word 2010 Level I
Excel 2010 Level I
Accounting Spreadsheet
Applications
Accounting Computer
Applications
Auditing
International Business
Written Communication
Introductory Statistics
Oral/Interpersonal
Communication
3
3
3
1
1
1
2
ACCT 189
ACCT 355
BUS 211
Accounting Elective
Cost Accounting
Business Law
3
34
3
Bus 189
Acct 189
Business Elective
Accounting Elective
3
1
3
ACCT 357
35
3
3
3
3
3
ACCT 464
BUS 289
WRIT 101
BUS 270
COMM
110
Accounting Information
Systems
Auditing
Business Elective
Written Communication I
Business Statistics
Communication
Math with Business Applications
Economics
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Psychology
3
3
3
3
BUS 189
ECON 235
SOCI 101
PSYC 101
Business Elective
Survey of Economics
Introduction to Sociology
Introduction to Psychology
3
3
3
3
Total
66
Total
65
10101178
10101124
10102101
10801195
10804189
10801196
10804123
10809195
10809196
10809198
36
3
3
3
3
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Accounting I will only transfer as ACCT 200 if both it and Accounting II are taken.
Accounting III will only transfer as ACCT 352 if both it and Accounting IV are taken.
3 Credit awarded to ACCT 460 when ACCT 461 is successfully completed with a grade of C- or higher
4
Credit awarded for ACCT 355 only if student passes an advanced accounting elective at UWS with a grade of a C- or higher.
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Credit awarded for ACCT 357 only if student passes an advanced accounting elective at UWS with a grade of a C- or higher.
6 Credit awarded for ACCT 464 only if student passes an advanced accounting elective at UWS with a grade of a C- or higher.
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Requirements:
Students from NTC must have completed the above-named Associate of Applied
Science Degree program with a cumulative grade point average of at least 2.3/4.0 for
consideration for transfer under the terms of this document. Students must complete
the following courses or their equivalents with a grade point average of at least 2.0 with
no grade lower than C-: ITS 108; ACCT 200, 201; BUS 270; ECON 250, 251.
NTC general studies/breadth courses in communications, humanities, social sciences,
mathematics and natural science may transfer in to fulfill UW-Superior general
education requirements in these areas. All UW-Superior general education core and
knowledge category requirements not met by transfer credits must be completed.
Students must complete both BUS 270 Business Statistics and MATH 151 Business
Calculus or their equivalents.
Students may satisfy UWS’ Diversity and Non-Western requirements (3 credits each) by
taking qualifying General Education courses.
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Elective courses taken at NTC which are not listed in this agreement will be reviewed by
the faculty of the UW-Superior degree program named above on a case by case basis
A minimum of 120 total credits are required to complete a bachelor’s degree at UWSuperior; 66 credits within the major are required to complete the comprehensive
degree named above.
A minimum of 30 credits must be earned at UW-Superior in order to be awarded a
degree from UW-Superior.
Students must maintain a 2.0/4.0 grade point average in upper division courses to be
eligible for the bachelor’s degree named above.
Students are required to complete a final project (Senior Experience) to fulfill graduation
requirements for the bachelor’s degree named above.
Degree Requirements: In order to be awarded a degree from UW-Superior, students
are required to earn:
 120 total credits to complete the bachelor’s degree named above,
 at least 30 credits at UW-Superior,
 at least 36 credits in upper-division courses (300-400 level), and
 their final 12 credits at UW-Superior.
Conditions:
The terms of this degree completion agreement apply only for the purposes of entry to
the Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.
Credits will be awarded only to students who complete a bachelor’s degree at UWSuperior in the degree indicated in this agreement.
NTC students seeking admission to other degree programs offered at UW-Superior may
transfer to the University only those credits recognized by the desired program of entry.
This agreement is limited to University requirements for completion of a Bachelor’s
degree only. Students seeking certification for licensure in particular fields must
complete any additional requirements for such certification.
The transferability of credits as put forth within this articulation agreement is advisory.
Students who matriculate to UW-Superior are subject to the degree requirements in
effect in the students’ catalog of entry at UW-Superior.
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Agreement Contact Persons:
University of Wisconsin-Superior
______________________________________________________________________
Chair, Business and Economics Dept., UW-Superior
email
phone
Northcentral Technical College
______________________________________________________________________
Faculty, Accounting Programs, Northcentral Technical College
email
phone
Approvals:
______________________________________________________________________
Chair, Faculty Senate, UW-Superior
Dean, Northcentral Technical College
______________________________________________________________________
Provost, UW-Superior
Chief Academic Officer, Northcentral
Technical College
______________________________________________________________________
Chancellor, UW-Superior
President, Northcentral Technical College
Date: ________________
Date: _________________
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Appendix A – Remaining Coursework Required at UWS
HHP 102 Health and Wellness
WRIT 102 College Writing II
MATH 151 Calculus for Business, Life, and Social
Sciences
3
3
ECON 250 Principles of Microeconomics
ECON 251 Principles of Macroeconomics
ACCT Elective
ACCT Elective
3
3
ACCT Elective
BUS 370 Principles of Marketing
FIN 320 Principles of Finance
ACCT 353 Intermediate Accounting II
BUS 380 Principles of Management
ACCT 461 Advanced Topics in Taxation
ACCT 467 Tax Research
ACCT 462 Advanced Accounting
ACCT 466 Senior Project in Accounting
Natural Science
Lab Course
Environmental Course
Fine and Applied Arts
Art History, Criticism, & Appreciation
Aesthetic Experience
History
Literature
World Language, Culture. And Philosophy
Total UWS
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
1
3
2
4
2
3
3
3
3
3
66
Assumes students satisfy Diversity and Non-western requirements through courses above.
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – SUPERIOR
Department of Business and Economics
Department Meeting
September 15, 2014 Roderick ERL 304 12:00 noon – 12:55 pm
Present: Kay Biga, Mei Cao, Diek Carlson, Ethan Christensen, Rubana
Mahjabeen, Sakib Mahmud, Mark McCoon, Rick Moran, Anne Nys, Brent
Opall, Edie Plasch, Zamira Simkins, Amit Mokashi and Richard Stewart.
Absent: Jerry Hembd and Dave Johnson.
Terry Kronzer who was supposed to attend the meeting and provide a
briefing on the graduate programs was absent.
Meeting called to order at 12:01 pm by Richard Stewart, Chair.
Minutes
Approval with corrections of minutes from August 28, 2014 was proposed by
Kay and seconded by Zamira.
School of Business update
Richard spoke with Susan Hansen Director, School of Business at University
of Wisconsin-Platteville. Their proposal for converting to a school of business
took 9 months and went through Provost > Chancellor > Board of
Governance > notification to Board of Regents > System Legal. They (UWP)
found it helpful for students applying for graduate school, accreditation, and
finally alumni and funding. There has been no change in governance or “red
tape” as a result of the formation on the school of business and the
transition was conducted with minimal extra cost. The school continues to
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have an elected Director without any change in pay – this was a prerequisite
for approval insisted upon by the UWP Provost.
Richard pointed out that in the case of UWS DBE, the change could be to a
“named” school of business with the possibility of getting a donor. Ethan
suggested that the naming could coincide with the anniversary of Erlanson
Hall in 2016. An amendment was proposed by Zamira and seconded by Rick
to change the proposed name from “School of Business” to a “School of
Business and Economics” with the intention of having a seamless transition
with least change in name – same was approved.
Chair’s 9-8-2014 meeting
Ethan provided the brief on the Chair’s meeting. He observed that the
meeting essentially provided reminders of the current activities including
strategic planning process. He felt that of specific importance to the
departmental members could be the monthly Cabinet Plus meetings which
provided an opportunity to interact with the Chancellor, Provost and other
members of the Chancellor’s cabinet. Richard informed that the next
meeting was on October 1st from 9:30 to 11 am.
Another issue that was raised in the meeting was that of links on old
catalogs leading to current catalog pages. These links are being reviewed by
Jeff Kirschling and if any such link is discovered it should be reported to him.
Program Review
Richard reminded that October 1st was the deadline for program review and
that he needed the necessary input from the entire faculty.
Zamira informed the members of the changes in the Academic Program
Review Council (APRC), they would function both as peer reviewers as well
as make recommendations on supporting or suspending programs. Their
report would be sent by the Provost to the UW System. The program review
would maintain commonality with the annual review to enable easy
compilation. She referred to the “guideline” document made by Steve
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Rosenberg which is designed to help interpret what is being requested from
each department in the academic program review template. Zamira offered
to make available previous years’ reviews noting however the changes in the
templates. These reviews would be separate for each program and would be
done for all majors and minors.
Search and Screen Accounting
Mark informed that he would be meeting with the personnel committee on
Wednesday (9-17-14).
Articulation Agreements
Mark distributed copies of articulation agreements made with the
Northcentral Technical College for the Accountant Associate of Applied
Science and the Business Management Associate of Applied Science degrees.
He explained that the accounting degree has a relatively straight forward
mapping of credits from associate’s (NTC) to bachelor’s degrees. The
business management associate on the other hand was free to go to any of
the DBE’s eight majors. The agreements are based on "boilerplate language"
used in previous articulation agreements. Equivalency of courses was
discussed. Mark noted that a student fulfilling all the requirements at NTC
and at UWS in accounting would have a total of 132 out of the required 150
hours for CPA. Richard recommended that a similar agreement should be
considered for the SMGT program. Ethan prosed adding an appendix “B” to
the management agreement indicating the coursework required to get a
minor in business at UWS. Motion by Mark, seconded by Rick. The
articulation agreements with this proposed change were approved.
REMINDERS
1.
Summer School classes
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2.
Student Assists – $800 per faculty member annually unless
grant/150 funded
a. Need to have students take on-line exams sexual harassment
and
b. Need to have contracts signed, need to have background checks
c. Beecroft
3.
Personnel Committee Meeting
a. Dates for TPR
b. Annual planning information for committee
c. Mentoring assignments
4.
Curriculum Committee meeting – September 24, 2014
a. Topics for agenda: Hospitality, Math-130
5.
Department Committee Assignments – Diek – switched from event
planning to awards committee
6.
Information for Annual Report – Due ASAP Richard
a. Personal Accomplishment
b. Contributions to Inclusive Excellence
c. Assessment achievements and plans
7.
DBE Upcoming Events:
a. Volleyball September 26 at ACES – Event planning committee
Kay informed that volleyball has been switched back to ACES as
they have agreed with Dave to provide free pizza.
OPEN ITEMS:
Kay informed everyone that April 24th has been decided as the day of the
banquet. She asked to be informed of any possible conflicts.
Richard with be having an internship briefing for students on September
28th.
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Meeting adjourned at 12:55 pm by Richard Stewart, Chair.
Submitted by,
Amit J. Mokashi
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