Bill Text: VA HB535 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Higher educational institutions, public; dual enrollment course credit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-13 - Left in Education [HB535 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-HB535-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §23.1-907 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§23.1-907. Articulation, dual admissions, and guaranteed admissions agreements; admission of certain comprehensive community college graduates; dual enrollment.
A. The board of visitors of each baccalaureate public institution of higher education shall develop, consistent with Council guidelines and the institution's six-year plan as set forth in §23.1-306, articulation, dual admissions, and guaranteed admissions agreements with each associate-degree-granting public institution of higher education.
B. The Council and each
public institution of higher education shall develop a passport credit program,
including any necessary guidelines for such program. In developing the program,
the Council and each public institution of higher education shall establish
competencies and standards for each passport credit course. Any course that
does not meet or exceed the standards developed under the program shall not be
deemed a passport credit course. Such passport credit program shall require
that it is the responsibility of the course provider to ensure that a passport
credit course meets the standards of the program. Each passport credit course
shall satisfy a lower division general education requirement at any public
institution of higher education.
C.
The Council and each public institution of higher education shall develop a
one-year uniform certificate of general studies program as set forth in
subdivision 20 of §23.1-203. All credits earned in academic subject coursework
by students attending an associate-degree-granting public institution of higher
education who complete the one-year uniform certificate of general studies
program are transferrable to a baccalaureate public institution of higher
education in accordance with Council guidelines.
D. C. The
Council shall prepare an annual report on the pertinent aspects of the pipeline
of students transferring from comprehensive community colleges to baccalaureate
public institutions of higher education.
E. D. The
Council, consistent with its responsibility to facilitate the development of
articulation, dual admissions, and guaranteed admissions agreements set forth
in §§23.1-203 and 23.1-908, shall develop guidelines for such agreements.
F. E. Each
comprehensive community college shall develop agreements for postsecondary
degree attainment with the public high schools in the school divisions that
such comprehensive community college serves specifying the options for students
to complete an associate degree or a one-year Uniform
Certificate uniform certificate
of General Studies general studies concurrent
with a high school diploma. Such agreements shall specify the credit available
for dual enrollment courses and Advanced Placement courses with qualifying exam
scores of three or higher. Credit
received for the successful completion of any dual enrollment course
offered pursuant to an agreement for postsecondary degree attainment developed
pursuant to this subsection shall satisfy degree
requirements at each public institution of higher
education.
2. That §23.1-905.1 of the Code of Virginia is repealed.