What are the costs of offering concurrent enrollment programs?
Concurrent enrollment is supported by state moneys. Currently, the state allocation is divided between the sponsoring university and the high school/school district. The ratio of dividing that allocation is set by policy and gives 60% to the institution delivering the instruction and 40% to the other institution. There are obvious costs to offering instruction to students, whether through concurrent enrollment or through any other means, but that is what schools are commissioned to work with. If the instructor of the concurrent enrollment course is a high school teacher and is teaching as part of that teacher’s contract, the salary costs of the teacher are the base costs. If, however, the course is delivered by Interactive Video Conferencing and the IVC lab is staffed by a para-professional who is working for much less money than a certificated teacher, then the delivery costs to the school are significantly reduced and the school’s FTE otherwise needed to deliver CE freed for other sc
