Bill Text: VA SB77 | 2018 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Dual enrollment courses; quality standards, universal transfer course credit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - Rereferred to Finance [SB77 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2018-SB77-Prefiled.html
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §23.1-905.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§23.1-905.1. Dual enrollment courses; quality standards; universal transfer course credit.
A. The Council, in consultation with the Department of Education and each public institution of higher education, shall establish (i) quality standards for dual enrollment courses, including quality standards for course instructors, materials, and content, and (ii) a process by which dual enrollment courses that meet or exceed such quality standards are certified as universal transfer courses. Each universal transfer course shall satisfy course credit or other academic requirements at any public institution of higher education.
B. The
Council, in consultation with the
Department of Education and each public institution of
higher education, shall establish a policy for granting
undergraduate general education the
satisfaction of course credit to any
entering student who has successfully completed a dual
enrollment course or other
academic requirements through the successful completion of universal
transfer courses by entering students. The policy shall:
1. Outline the conditions
necessary for each public institution of higher education to grant general
education course credit for the successful completion of a dual enrollment
course;
2.
Identify the general education course
credit or other academic requirements of each public institution of higher
education that the student satisfies by successfully completing a dual enrollment universal transfer course; and
3. 2. Ensure, to
the extent possible, that the grant satisfaction of general education course
credit or other academic requirements
is consistent across each public institution of higher education and each such dual enrollment universal transfer course.
B. C. The
Council and each public institution of higher education shall make the universal transfer course credit policy
established pursuant to subsection B available
to the public on their websites.
C. D. The
Council shall annually report to the House Committee on Education and the
Senate Committee on Education and Health on the implementation of the universal transfer course
credit policy by each public institution of higher education.