Concurrent Enrollment Defining your procedures

1. Concurrent Enrollment Defining your procedures Alicia G. Terry Director, Admissions & Records MiraCosta College aterry@miracosta.edu

2. Know the background • Regulations define acceptance of concurrently enrolled high school students, both Education Code and Title V • 2001-2003 Concurrent Enrollment Investigation into possible “double dipping” brought focus on regulatory compliance. • 2003 Q&A issued by Chancellor’s Office followed by 2005 Legal Advisory 05-01 clarifying numerous points of compliance: http://www.cccco.edu/OurAgency/Legal/tabid/195/Default.aspx

3. Analysis and decision making • MiraCosta analysis targeted specific areas of concern: • Public school versus private school procedures • If you take full-time minors, what will be the process for determining eligibility for college level education? • How do you enforce 11.0 unit limit and when (if ever) can it be exceeded? • Continuing student status and preventing students from slipping through the cracks without limitations in place. • Ensuring all paperwork is accurate and ready for auditors!

4. Ongoing processes • Staff trained in acceptance of approval forms and placing unit limits. • Signature forms on file for all local high schools. One staff member is responsible for contacting high schools and follow through. • Students requesting full-time enrollment must have special processing including assessment, receipt of hs transcripts and meeting with Dean of Counseling to determine if student ready for college level work. • Mid-semester review of all concurrently enrolled students to determine if paper work is on file and proper limits placed in computer system – follow-up for incomplete or missing documents. • Each upcoming enrollment period, holds placed on all high school students. Notices mailed to request new permit OR updating of education status. • Yearly review of regulations, forms, procedures and reminders to student services departments. • Check the data mart to be sure that your proper numbers of special admits are being reported.

5. Concurrent Enrollment Processes con’t. • What the future holds? Excerpt from the Barstow Desert Dispatch: California court ruling limits some Barstow home school programs Many programs are not affected by new credential requirement By Jason Smith, staff writer March 6, 2008 - 7:19PM BARSTOW — A recent ruling by a California court might make it more difficult for Barstow parents to pursue education outside of the traditional school setting. According to Ronda Sheffield, who tutors children in home school programs at Barstow Community College, a new requirement of parents to have teaching credentials to home school will create hardship for parents who teach their children at home. The ruling, issued by the 2nd District Court of Appeals, came down at the end of February and would require parents who home school their children to obtain teaching credentials, a five-year process that requires multiple examinations and a bachelor’s degree.

6. Minors on Campus & the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act • CCC Academic Senate issued a white paper in 2006 on handling minors. Access this document at www.asccc.org. Search for publications, key word “minors”. • Includes important issues such as reporting of suspected child abuse, opinion on instructor’s right to admit minors, notification to instructors of minor status.