(1) If the course involved is required for completion
under the State Board of Education High School Program graduation
requirements, and the high school involved is otherwise unable to
offer such a course.
(2) If the high school credit-only students are College
Board Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate students.
(3) If the course is a career and technical/college
workforce education course and the high school credit-only students
are eligible to earn articulated college credit.
(e) Faculty Selection, Supervision, and Evaluation.
(1) The college shall select instructors of dual credit
courses. These instructors must meet the same standards (including
minimal requirements of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Commission on Colleges) and approval procedures used by the college
to select faculty responsible for teaching the same courses at the
main campus of the college.
(2) The college shall supervise and evaluate instructors
of dual credit courses using the same or comparable procedures used
for faculty at the main campus of the college.
(f) Course Curriculum, Instruction, and Grading. The
college shall ensure that a dual credit course and the corresponding
course offered at the main campus of the college are equivalent with
respect to the curriculum, materials, instruction, and method/rigor
of student evaluation. These standards must be upheld regardless of
the student composition of the class.
(g) Academic Policies and Student Support Services.
(1) Regular academic policies applicable to courses
taught at the college's main campus must also apply to dual credit
courses. These policies could include the appeal process for disputed
grades, drop policy, the communication of grading policy to students,
when the syllabus must be distributed, etc.
(2) Students in dual credit courses must be eligible
to utilize the same or comparable support services that are afforded
college students on the main campus. The college is responsible for
ensuring timely and efficient access to such services (e.g., academic
advising and counseling), to learning materials (e.g., library resources),
and to other benefits for which the student may be eligible.
(3) A student enrolled in dual credit courses at an
institution of higher education shall file a degree plan with the
institution as prescribed by §4.344 of this chapter (relating
to Degree Plans for a Student Enrolled in Dual Credit Courses).
(h) Transcripting of Credit. For dual credit courses,
high school as well as college credit should be transcripted immediately
upon a student's completion of the performance required in the course.
(i) Funding.
(1) The state funding for dual credit courses will
be available to both public school districts and colleges based on
the current funding rules of the State Board of Education (TEC 42.005
(g)) and the Board (TEC 61.059 (p) and (q)).
(2) The college may only claim funding for students
earning college credit in core curriculum, field of study curriculum,
program of study curriculum, career and technical education, and foreign
language dual credit courses.
(3) This provision does not apply to students enrolled
in approved early college education programs under TEC 29.908.
(4) All public colleges, universities, and health-related
institutions may waive all or part of tuition and fees for a Texas
high school student enrolled in a course for which the student may
receive dual course credit.
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Source Note: The provisions of this §4.85 adopted to be effective May 27, 2003, 28 TexReg 4114; amended to be effective December 3, 2003, 28 TexReg 10754; amended to be effective February 26, 2004, 29 TexReg 1659; amended to be effective May 25, 2004, 29 TexReg 5058; amended to be effective December 19, 2004, 29 TexReg 11591; amended to be effective May 14, 2007, 32 TexReg 2637; amended to be effective August 15, 2007, 32 TexReg 4972; amended to be effective November 24, 2013, 38 TexReg 8422; amended to be effective August 19, 2014, 39 TexReg 6223; amended to beeffective November 25, 2015, 40 TexReg 8204; amended to be effective February 15, 2018, 43 TexReg 759; amended to be effective May 29, 2018, 43 TexReg 3346; amended to be effective May 22, 2019, 44 TexReg 2452; amended to be effective November 24, 2019, 44 TexReg 7048 |