[OkStudentPrep] Concurrent enrollment, grading, OKPromise Information, ACT resources

[Nelson, Lisa]

Good afternoon,
I hope that you are taking care of yourself and your family!

I have attached two documents.  The first one is our Concurrent Enrollment Quick Glance for counselors/administrators.  The second attachment is a Parent Quick Glance.  Please share the Parent Quick Glance with your sophomore and junior parents as they decide about concurrent enrollment courses for next semester.

Regarding concurrent enrollment, please encourage your concurrent enrollment students to stay in close contact with their professor through the online communication system for the course or by email-tell them it’s very important they communicate!

For grading issues at the colleges regarding concurrent enrollment:
OSRHE are encouraging institutions to assign letter grades as planned for the Spring 2020 courses in progress.  Our policy for the institutions states:
For a specified period of time following the posting of grades, (institutions) will provide students the option to elect to change a letter grade for a Spring 2020 course to Pass/No Pass. The window of time for students to make this election may be determined at the discretion of the institution. Grades of “P”-“NP” are GPA neutral, but count in hours attempted for retention and earned hours for graduation.

                        Please encourage your students to also communicate with You, their counselor, before they elect to choose a “P” (Pass) for their concurrent course.
PLEASE REMEMBER:  High school students concurrently enrolled in college courses may continue concurrent enrollment in subsequent semesters if they achieve a college grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 or above on a 4.0 scale. Therefore, a concurrent student who fails to achieve the requisite 2.0 college GPA shall not be eligible to continue concurrent enrollment at any State System institution.

Concurrent Enrollment Policy for our colleges: (FYI for you) To mitigate negative impacts on concurrent enrollment students, the following guidance is provided:
1. Institutions are expected to reach out to Spring 2020 concurrent enrollment students to ensure that they have access to adequate technology to complete their coursework, and if not, direct them to appropriate resources for connectivity or ways to complete instruction for the course(s).
2. For summer and fall concurrent admission and enrollment, institutions may use emails from parents and counselors/principals in lieu of original signatures on permission forms.



OKPromise students:
Updated guidance is now available on the OKPromise website related to Pass/Fail grades and calculating the OKPromise core GPA for the Spring 2020 semester.
If you have any questions, please email the OKPromise office at okpromise at osrhe.edu<mailto:okpromise at osrhe.edu>.
https://www.okhighered.org/okpromise/teachers-counselors.shtml

Exception for GPA Calculation of Pass/Fail Grades for Spring 2020 Semester for OKPromise students:
For the spring 2020 semester, high school or concurrent courses that apply to the Oklahoma’s Promise high school core curriculum requirements that are assigned a grade of “pass” (or its equivalent) will not be included in the grade point average (GPA) calculation for the core curriculum. While the course grade will not be included in the calculation of the core curriculum GPA, the course will count toward the required units for the core curriculum as appropriate. Normally, for purposes of calculating the 2.50 minimum GPA for the 17-unit core curriculum, courses with grade of “pass” are assigned a letter grade of “D” or the lowest passing grade that high school assigns to courses. Excluding a “pass” course grade from the core curriculum GPA calculation will allow an exception to this requirement for spring 2020 grades. Oklahoma’s Promise students will remain subject to the minimum 2.50 cumulative GPA requirement for all courses taken in grades 9-12 as calculated by the local school district.

Resources:
ACT Academy to share with students and parents: https://academy.act.org/
ACT resources for educators. Please share these with your staff:  https://www.act.org/content/act/en/covid19.html#educators

Thank you for all that you do for Oklahoma students! 😊
Take care!
Lisa Nelson
Director of Student Preparation
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
lnelson at osrhe.edu<mailto:lnelson at osrhe.edu>
www.okhighered.org/student-prep<http://www.okhighered.org/student-prep>
Office:  405.225.9257
Cell: 580.614.1328

“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.”~Joseph Addison

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