ACCREDITATION
Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies were granted provisional accreditation from CORD/NIHERST for its core programmes of Labour Studies and Co-operative Studies. Currently the College is in the process of developing a self-study in preparation for the accreditation of the institution by The Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago.
ARTICULATION
Thus far, Cipriani College of Labour and Co-operative Studies have signed four Articulation Agreements, three with international institutions of higher learning and others are in the process of being worked out. These articulation agreements are in the areas of Labour Studies, Co-operative Management and Development, and Social Sciences. Both Baccalaureate and Postgraduate Degrees are covered in the agreements. In some of the international cases, the articulation agreements have been tested. A number of our students have been accepted to pursue the Bachelor’s degree (distance learning primarily) in Labour Studies at the National Labor College of the George Meaney Centre for Labor Studies in Maryland. At the graduate level, another one has been accepted to pursue the Masters degree at the affiliate University of Baltimore.
Our students at the undergraduate level are able to complete their Bachelor degree in two years. In the case of the University of the West Indies, agreement has already been reached on the articulation of the College’s Associate Degrees with certain Bachelor Degree programmes of the university. Specific exemptions have already been agreed to and more are now being identified and will soon be made available. In December 2004 CCLCS and Monroe College signed an Articulation Agreement which allows students of Cipriani College to gain advanced admission into The Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and Business Management with an emphasis in Human Resource Management among others.
AFFILIATION
The College is also a member of the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators (ACHEA), the Association of Caribbean Tertiary Institutions (ACTI), American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).