TITLE 5 POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
CHAPTER 55 PUBLIC POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION GENERAL
PROVISIONS
PART 2 TRIBAL COLLEGE DUAL CREDIT
PROGRAM
5.55.2.1 ISSUING AGENCY: New
Mexico Higher Education Department
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5.55.2.2 SCOPE: This
rule applies to dual credit programs at Diné College, the Institute of American
Indian Art, Navajo Technical University and Southwest Indian Polytechnic
Institute.
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5.55.2.3 STATUTORY AUTHORITY: Section
9-25-8; 21-1-1.2 NMSA 1978.
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5.55.2.4 DURATION: Permanent.
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5.55.2.5 EFFECTIVE DATE: November 13, 2014, unless a later date is
cited at the end of a section.
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5.55.2.6 OBJECTIVE: The purposes of the tribal college dual credit
program are:
A. to provide high
school students the opportunity to enroll in college-level academic or
career-technical courses offered by the four tribal post-secondary
institutions;
B. to permit those
enrolled students to simultaneously earn credit toward high school graduation
and a post-secondary degree or certificate; and
C. to provide for
reimbursement of dual credit tuition and fees for the four tribal colleges.
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5.55.2.7 DEFINITIONS:
A. “Appropriation” means the legislative
financial allocation granted to reimburse the tribal colleges for dual credit tuition
and fees.
B. “Classification of instructional program
(CIP)” is a coding system that contains titles and descriptions of
instructional programs.
C. “Dual Credit
Council” is an advisory group consisting of staff of the higher education
department and the public education department that issues recommendations to
the cabinet secretaries of the public education and higher education departs
regarding dual credit issues.
D. “Dual Credit
Program” means a program offered by the tribal colleges and secondary
schools that permits high school students to enroll in college-level courses
offered by the tribal colleges that may be academic or career-technical, but
not remedial or developmental. Dual
credit students will simultaneously earn credit toward high school graduation
and a postsecondary degree or certificate.
E. “Department”
means the New Mexico higher education department.
F. “Inadequate
Appropriation” means a legislative financial allocation that does not fully
compensate all of the tribal colleges for the dual credit tuition and fees.
G. “Local Educational
Agency (LEA)” is a public school district, a state-chartered school or a
bureau of Indian education-funded high school.
H. “Tribal College”
means diné college, the institute of American Indian arts, the Navajo technical
university, southwest Indian polytechnic institute and any other post-secondary
educational institutions that are tribally, federally or congressionally
chartered in the state of New Mexico and accredited by the north central
association of colleges and schools.
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5.55.2.8 REIMBURSEMENT OF TUITION AND
FEES:
A. If sufficient
appropriations are received, the tribal colleges will be fully reimbursed for
all dual credit tuition and fees. The
date of reimbursements is dependent upon receiving accurate and timely data
from each tribal college in order to accurately calculate the amount due to
each college. If final and accurate data
is received in a timely manner, the reimbursements for fall semester will be
distributed on or about March 31 of each year.
If final and accurate data is received in a timely manner, the
reimbursements for the spring semester will be made on or about August 31 of
each year.
B. If the
legislative appropriation is inadequate to fully reimburse each of the tribal
colleges for the full amount of the tuition and fees expended to provide dual credit,
the department will offer the presidents of the tribal colleges or their designees
the opportunity to select another method of reimbursement.
C. In the event of
an inadequate appropriation, the department will honor a fair and equitable
alternative method of distribution of the reimbursement only if the method is
agreed upon by all the tribal colleges pursuant to a memorandum of agreement.
D. If the tribal
colleges cannot agree unanimously upon a fair and equitable distribution of an
inadequate appropriation for dual credit tuition and fees, the department will
develop a formula that fairly distributes the appropriation. The department’s formula will be distributed
to the colleges for review and comment before any distribution is made. However, in the event of disagreement, the
department’s determination of a distribution method is the final determination.
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5.55.2 9 ELIGIBLE
COURSES:
A. Types
of courses:
(1) College courses
that are academic or career-technical may simultaneously earn credit toward
high school graduation and a postsecondary degree or certificate and shall be
eligible for dual credit. Remedial,
developmental and physical education activity courses are not eligible for dual
credit.
(2) Courses taken for audit are not eligible for dual credit.
(3) Dual
credit courses may be taken as electives or core courses (except physical
education activity course) high school credits.
(4) Dual
credit courses must meet the public education department standards and
benchmarks.
(5) College
courses eligible for dual credit shall meet the rigor for postsecondary
institution credit and be congruent with the postsecondary institution’s
academic standards.
(6) Dual
credit courses offered in high school settings shall conform to college
academic standards.
(7) Course
requirements for high school students enrolled in dual credit courses shall be
equal to those of regular college students.
(8) Dual credit courses that are part of
the general education common core for postsecondary institutions are eligible
for transfer among New Mexico postsecondary institutions pursuant to Subsection
D of 21-1B-3 NMSA 1978.
B. Identifying
courses:
(1) The
LEA in collaboration with the postsecondary institution shall determine a list
of academic and career technical courses eligible for dual credit.
(1) Dual
credit courses may be offered at LEAs, postsecondary institutions, and
off-campus centers as determined by the LEA in collaboration with the
postsecondary institution offering the courses.
(2) Dual
credit courses may be delivered during or outside of regular LEA hours.
(3) Postsecondary
institutions may offer dual credit courses via distance learning (ITV, online,
hybrid, correspondence) as this option becomes available and cost-effective.
All dual credit course rules apply.
D. Semesters
dual credit may be taken; caps for dual credit; nature of high school credit earned:
(1) Eligible
students may enroll in dual credit courses year-round.
(2) There
is no state limit to the number of credits a student may earn through dual
credit in an academic term; however, the student must meet eligibility
requirements.
(3) Unless
otherwise approved by the cabinet secretaries of the higher education and
public education departments, successful completion of three credit hours of
postsecondary instruction shall result in the awarding of one high school unit
for said completed postsecondary course. If the LEA and postsecondary
institution determine that a different ratio is warranted for a particular dual
credit course comparable to LEA core courses in order to meet public education
department standards and benchmarks, they may appeal to the council, which may
recommend a different ratio to the cabinet secretaries of the public education
and higher education departments. The joint decision of the public education and
higher education department cabinet secretaries shall be final.
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HISTORY OF 5.55.2 NMAC: [RESERVED]