STANDARDS
COMMITTEE:
The Standards Changes are Coming!Michael
A. Bower, ACC
Standards Committee Chair
At the Fall 2000 NCCAP Board
of Directors meeting the recommendations
for changes to the Certification
Standards from the Standards Commit-tee
were reviewed and several changes were
approved. Although many of those changes
are “housekeeping” in nature
and will serve to simplify the standards,
others change the requirements for
becoming certified and the highlights are
covered in this article.
- Activity Assistant
Certified (AAC) Track 2 is NOT
being phased out.
- Academic Education
at any level will require one
class in basic writing or
composition skills.
- The Academic
Applicable Course Work section
has been revised and divided into
three areas, plus basic
writing/composition, with course
work required from these areas at
differing rates, depending on the
Track used.
- Activity Director
Certified (ADC) Track 2 will
require an Associates Degree,
6000 Hours of Experience in the
last 5 years and 30 CE’s in
the last 5 years.
- ADC Track 3 will
require 60 college semester
credits in six different required
course work areas (Basic Writing/
Composition plus 5 areas with at
least one from each course area)
and 30 CEU’s.
- ADC Track 4 will
require Eng. Comp/Basic Writing +
one other area from the required
course area.
- All ADC & ACC
Tracks will require a minimum of
4000 hours experience within the
past 5 years.
- ACC Track 3 will be
phased out by Dec. 31, 2001
- The Basic Education
Course and Advanced Management
Course are now known as the
Modular Education Program for
Activity Professionals (MEPAP)
Parts 1 & 2.The issue of the
development of “specialty
tracks” was discussed, but
so far the requests for such
tracks have come from only two
states. Please refer to the
article by Kathy Hughes and give
us your input about the Specialty
Track issue.
I wish to thank all the
members of the Standards Commit-tee. Much
thought and many hours have been spent
going over the standards and writing up
recommendations. Those recommendations
were seriously considered and many have
been incorporated into the 2001 Standards
for Certification.
Remember! The new standards
go into effect on January 1, 2001. Any
applications for certification arriving
after that will have to meet the new
standards. NN
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