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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Good afternoon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">I hope that you are taking care of yourself and your family!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">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 <b>it’s very important they communicate!</b> <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">For grading issues at the colleges regarding concurrent enrollment:</span></u></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">OSRHE are encouraging institutions to assign letter grades as planned for the Spring 2020 courses in progress. Our policy for the institutions states:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:3.0pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">For a specified period of time following the posting of grades,
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">(institutions)<i> 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.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<b>Please encourage your students to also communicate with <u>You, their counselor</u>, before they elect to choose a “P” (Pass) for their concurrent course.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:3.0pt"><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">PLEASE REMEMBER:</span></u></i><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">
<b>High school students concurrently enrolled in college courses</b> may continue concurrent enrollment in subsequent semesters
<b>if</b> they achieve a <b>college grade point average (GPA) of 2.0</b> <b>or above</b> on a 4.0 scale. Therefore, a concurrent student who
<b>fails to achieve the requisite 2.0 college GPA shall not be eligible to continue concurrent enrollment at any State System institution.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Concurrent Enrollment Policy for our colleges: (FYI for you)</span></u></i></b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"> To
mitigate negative impacts on concurrent enrollment students, the following guidance is provided:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">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).<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">2.
<b>For summer and fall concurrent admission and enrollment,</b> <b>institutions may use emails from parents and counselors/principals in lieu of original signatures on permission forms.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">OKPromise students:</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">If you have any questions, please email the OKPromise office at
<a href="mailto:okpromise@osrhe.edu">okpromise@osrhe.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><a href="https://www.okhighered.org/okpromise/teachers-counselors.shtml">https://www.okhighered.org/okpromise/teachers-counselors.shtml</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Exception for GPA Calculation of Pass/Fail Grades for Spring 2020 Semester for OKPromise students:<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">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.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Resources:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">ACT Academy to share with students and parents:
<a href="https://academy.act.org/">https://academy.act.org/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">ACT resources for educators. Please share these with your staff:
<a href="https://www.act.org/content/act/en/covid19.html#educators">https://www.act.org/content/act/en/covid19.html#educators</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Thank you for all that you do for Oklahoma students!
</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;color:#002060">😊</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Take care!
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Lisa Nelson<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Director of Student Preparation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><a href="mailto:lnelson@osrhe.edu"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">lnelson@osrhe.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><a href="http://www.okhighered.org/student-prep"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">www.okhighered.org/student-prep</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Office: 405.225.9257<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">Cell: 580.614.1328<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="text-align:left"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#002060">“True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.”~Joseph Addison<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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