...announcements and registration opportunities for these and other courses as each nears readiness.

DISCS will continue to teach legacy courses while new courses are developed. While there may not be a 100 percent transfer of credit for a legacy course to a new course due to gaps in coverage of competencies, we will endeavor to grant as much transferrable credit as possible. The legacy courses are still valuable to the workforce (provide needed training) and I highly encourage the workforce to continue to attend them as long as they remain available. Note that as we get closer to the fall, and in order to dedicate faculty efforts to curriculum development, we anticipate reductions in some of our legacy courses – to make the new courseware available more quickly.

I had previously noted the establishment of the DISCS location in the National Capital Region (NCR). Staffing there has continued to expand and construction has begun on facilities in Crystal City Gateway 2. If all goes as planned, the construction will be completed early this summer and we’ll be able to conduct classes soon thereafter. DISCS faculty at WPAFB will continue to support DISCS-NCR courses in both interim and long term operations. This is to help ensure the important integration among our faculty, DSCA headquarters personnel and representatives of organizations and agencies in the NCR remains robust.

Remember, DISCS centrally funds the TDY expenses for our students. All course information and the ability to register for them resides on this website.

Lastly, I’d note that DISCS is coming up on its Reaffirmation of Accreditation Visit by the Council on Occupational Education (COE). The team will visit our WPAFB location on 8-12 April. This culminates the Self-Study activity by our faculty and staff documenting the activity dealing with 10 Standards of the evaluation with a range of areas from Educational Programs to Strategic Planning to Student Services and Activities to name only three of them. We look forward to that team’s visit – these occur generally every 5-6 years with annual updates provided to COE in years where there is no visit.

Will update this as often as possible to keep you informed in a timely way in this fast-paced environment.

Sincerely,

Dr. Ron Reynolds

Posted February 14, 2019