Following the WSU Provost and College Deans agreement for Fee for Service, the WSU Concurrent Enrollment Office calculates a fee for service allocation for each participating academic department based on the previous year’s level of involvement and sends that fee to the appropriate dean in early Fall.  It is the responsibility of the department to negotiate with its dean   how access can be made to that fee for service amount.  Our intention is that it will help defray     the costs to the department for its level of involvement with the program.

• The Department will be paid $100 for each Concurrent Enrollment course section
  Ex. 6 Sections=$600
  Campus partner will:
  Assess the concurrent status of a requesting instructor and course in a timely manner Provide adequate assistance to assure that teachers understand department expectations for quality standards
  Responsibility required by USHE, USOE and NACEP accreditation
   
• You are paid a Pro-rated amount per number of visitations made to the schools to see the adjunct instructors
  Campus partner will:
  Complete a visit to each approved teacher/class and submit the visitation form to the concurrent office at end of school year
  

  Level 1 @ $100-150 for 1-10 visits (1-5 =$100 / 6-10=$150)
  Level 2 @ $200-300 for 11-20 visits (11-13=$200 / 14-16=$250 / 17-20=$300)
  Level 3 @ $350-450 for 21-40 visits (21-27=$350 / 28-34=$400 / 35-40=$450)
  Volume levels are based on approved sections rather than repeat visits

  Responsibility required by USHE, USOE and NACEP accreditation
   
• You are paid $500 total for any number of individual trainings, or $1000 for co-facilitate a CE professional development training
  Campus partner will:
  Serve as an active co-host for an annual concurrent professional development session and offer pertinent instructional strategies, resources and assistance
  Amount varies depending on number of department-approved teachers.
  Responsibility required by USHE, USOE and NACEP accreditation
   
• After the fees are generated, you will receive an additional amount which is based upon a percentage of remaining FFS monies. This percentage is apportioned according to the % of concurrent SCHs generated by each WSU department partner.
  

  The percentage of total earned concurrent student credit hours generated from classes sponsored by the department is used to calculate an additional allocation from the remaining fee for service budget
  i.e., if the fee for service balance is $110,000 and the department generates 5 % of the total SCHs earned by all concurrent students, than $5500 is allocated in addition to the number of sections allocation (see above).

Background and Rationale

Concurrent Enrollment is a state-funded educational program that receives general policy direction from the Board of Regents as well as the Utah State Office of Education. This program is funded to cover minimum expenses incurred by the educational partners. Participation by WSU results in our receiving $17/SCH as a recording fee. WSU receives no FTEs in concurrent classes taught by approved high school adjunct faculty partners. On-line or EdNet deliveries of concurrent classes will generate FTEs for WSU. Both delivery models are available to interested departments.

The WSU Concurrent Enrollment office receives and manages the generated revenue on behalf of its administrative role with this program. During the 2003-2004 school year, over 4,000 individual students totaled 7,234 registrations that generated 19,968 student credit hours (SCHs) in the 550 class sections that were approved by the 25 participating WSU academic departments and taught by the 262 high school teachers who represented 35 high schools.

Close collaboration between the WSU Concurrent Enrollment office, the WSU participating academic departments and the partnering educational sites is necessary to the success of this program. Credit earned for concurrent participation must reflect student experience and performance standards equivalent to those found on the WSU campus. Strategies for assuring that these standards are in fact realized at the participating sites must be implemented and can best be undertaken by individuals who represent the perspective of each participating academic department.