FORT WAYNE – Diane Quance, director of guidance and coordinator for the IPFW Collegiate Connection dual-credit program at Warsaw Community High School, received a scholarship to attend this year’s National Concurrent Enrollment Partnership conference, Oct. 26-28, in Chicago. She is one of four scholarship winners selected from a pool of over 80 applicants nationwide. Quance hopes to learn new techniques for evaluating courses and determining transferability to other institutions, with the goal of expanding Warsaw’s dual-credit curriculum offerings. She has worked in concurrent enrollment for more than 20 years. Concurrent enrollment programs (also known as dual-credit programs) allow high school students to earn college credits by taking classes at their schools, taught by their high school teachers. The NACEP works to ensure that college courses offered by high school teachers are as rigorous as courses offered on the campus of the sponsoring university. The NACEP is the sole accrediting body for concurrent enrollment partnerships. The IPFW Collegiate Connection program earned NACEP accreditation in 2011. Quance was encouraged to apply for the NACEP conference scholarship by Collegiate Connection Coordinator Ann Brown of the IPFW Department of Admissions. As student admissions coordinator for the Collegiate Connection program, Brown works closely with Jennifer Redwine, director of education outreach for the IPFW Division of Continuing Studies, who coordinates the program with area high school teachers.
