This position paper of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education is written in response to the American Nurses' Association's (ANA) proposal, which calls for reducing a four-level system to two levels of nursing: the professional nurse, who would be required to have a bachelor of science degree in nursing, and an assistant technical…

Criteria and procedures are proposed for the review of proposed associate degree or other sub-baccalaureate certificate or degree programs in Alabama's state four-year colleges. Background information, including the approval of an associate degree award for a two-year certificate program at Livingston University, is reviewed. Initially, it was…