Glossary

The centre is taking efforts to develop leadership qualities of the students in the campus. Experts in leadership development are invited often to breed the qualities among the student. They are asked to organize programmes with AIR, TV and other private channels to design, conduct programmes relating programmes relating to career guidance and course guidance in and outside the college.

Ability to Benefit– Requires that students attending postsecondary institutions receiving Title I financial aid take a standardized test that demonstrates their ability to benefit from a postsecondary education experience. Students not receiving financial aid may not be held to institutional entrance requirement any less stringent than those receiving aid.

Admissions Criteria –Minimum educational requirements that applicants must meet to be considered for admission to a postsecondary educational institution.

Advanced Placement –Thirty-seven college-level courses offered by the College Board to interested high schools. At the completion of the course, students with acceptable scores on an examination earn college credit toward a degree, certificate, or other formal award or advanced Standing at most of the nation’s colleges and universities.

Articulation – Articulation is the process by which coursework completed in one educational system is given credit in another. (From California Postsecondary Education Commission)

Articulation Agreement(s)–An official agreement in which one educational institution agrees to accept specific courses or groups of courses from another educational institution as a part of the receiving institution’s credentialing programs.

State-wide Articulation Agreement(s)–The process by which a course or groups of courses completed in one institution are credited at all designated receiving institutions in the state.

Banked Credit – Credits earned (typically by high school students taking college-level courses) that are held “in abeyance” until a student has completed other requirements (e.g., high school graduation) and has become a full-fledged student of the college planning to award the credit.

Block vs. Course-By-Course Articulation –The process by which entire groups of courses completed in one institution are awarded as credit by another institution, as contrasted with a one-course-at-a-time, traditional course transfer between institutions.

Career Pathways/Areas Of Concentration (AOC) – A coherent and focused sequence of rigorous academic and career/ technical courses, commencing in the ninth grade and leading to postsecondary education and/ or work. Career pathways/AOC that are implemented and maintained in partnership among secondary and postsecondary education, business, and employers represent the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue a full range of career opportunities within a pathway, from entry level to management, including technical and professional career specialties.

Career Clusters –Career clusters are a broad group of career areas that represent a scope of employment that involves grouping occupations from one or more industries that share common skill requirements. Career clusters provide a means of organizing the thousands of career choices for implementation in the school curriculum.

Career Options Law –The Career Options Law is designed to help students create a focus while in high school to help make learning more relevant and meaningful. The law mandates that all sixth through eighth grade students must complete six career awareness activities each year culminating with a five-year educational plan to be reviewed and updated annually while in high school, and all high schools must offer career majors (areas of concentrations) to address students ‘interests. (Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE)

Career Options Program – A program that mandates measures to ensure Louisiana students are equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to pursue satisfying and rewarding career matched to aptitude and interests. The program is evaluated on an annual basis.

Certificate of Technical Studies (CTS) –An applied technical program (21 – 33 hours). CT Programs are formed by combining multiple technical competency areas (TCAs) to provide a student with a broad technical competency.CTS programs are strictly limited to technical and community colleges. The approval authority resides with the BSSRO Community & Technical College System (LCTCS) Board of Supervisors, but the actions must be reported immediately to the Board of Regents (BOR). All other BOR requirements governing academic programs apply to the CTS.

CLEP Credit –The College Board’s College-Level Examination Program or CLEP provides students of any age with the opportunity to demonstrate college-level achievement through a program of exams in undergraduate college courses. Students may earn credit for knowledge learned through independent study and/or advanced high school courses. CLEP examinations cover material taught in courses that most students take as requirements in the first two years of college. A college usually grants the same amount of credit to students earning satisfactory scores on the CLEP examination as it grants to student successfully completing that course.

Concurrent Enrolments –Courses taken by students offered by a postsecondary institution outside the regular school hours (e.g., at nights, on weekends, or during summer) for which students will receive credit only at the postsecondary institution. Postsecondary Process Institutional Responsibilities for the Enrolment of Students across Multiple Institutions: Students simultaneously taking coursework at varied postsecondary institutions without designation of a home institution shall be governed by appropriate policies and procedures of each postsecondary institution offering courses in which they are enrolled. Postsecondary institutions shall work together to synchronize such policies and procedures to the greatest extent possible. It is incumbent upon all postsecondary institutions to eliminate undue barriers which inhibit/prohibit the applicability of credit earned across varied institutions (BSSRIT Academic).

Credit vs. Non-credit –Credit: Recognition of attendance or performance in an instructional activity (course or program) that can be applied by a recipient toward the requirements for a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal award.

Credit course– A course that, if successfully completed, can be applied toward the number of courses required for achieving a degree, diploma, certificate, or other formal award.

Cross-enrolment –The simultaneous enrollment of a student in more than one postsecondary institution where in one institution serves as the student’s home institution .Cross-enrollment enables students registered at a specific postsecondary institution to enrol without formal admission to another postsecondary institution .The purpose of cross-registration is to provide opportunities for enriched educational programs by permitting full-time paying undergraduate and graduate students to cross-register for a course. Typically, students should not cross-register for a course that is offered at their postsecondary institution unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Cross-enrolment An enhancement to a regular high school diploma that recognizes additional work completed beyond the high school graduation requirements to enhance a student’s junior/senior years and to prepare for and/or provide a credential for postsecondary work

DropoutFor any given year (i.e., “current year”), a dropout is a student who (1) was enrolled at the end of the previous year (therefore expected to return in the current year) and does not enrol on or before October 1 of the current year, and therefore becomes a current year dropout; or (2) a student who attended school at any point in the current year, and then exits (during the current year), and who does not re-enter school on or before October 1 of following year, and therefore becomes a current year dropout.

Dual Enrolment Institutional Responsibilities for the Enrollment of Students Across Multiple Institutions: Dual Enrollment: The simultaneous enrolment of a student at both a secondary and a postsecondary institution

Early Admissions – A policy under which students who have not completed high school are admitted to and enrolled full-time in college, usually after completion of their junior year (IPEDS).

Early College Early College refers to high schools where students earn both a high school diploma and two years of college credit toward a college degree.

GED Early College refers to high schools where students earn both a high school diploma and two years of college credit toward a college degree.

Industry-based Certification(IBC) Industry-based Certification(IBC)

LA e Portal – A lifelong learning college and career preparation tool designed to assist a variety of individuals along the education and workforce continuum. Whether completing an individual graduation plan, creating a professional resume, searching for a college or university, taking career assessments, or exploring job opportunities, there is something for everyone.

Life Experience Credit College units awarded based upon prior learning as formally documented by a recognized evaluation process such as the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL).

Middle College The creative delivery of curriculum and pedagogy in which students take high school and college courses on a college campus while still in high school, pursuing both Carnegie and postsecondary credit. Typically, the Middle College is a comprehensive high school that is incorporated within the administrative structure of the postsecondary institution

Potential Dropout A student with a single factor or multiple factors that impede the student’s progress and increase the probability that the student’s academic pursuits may be interrupted, including but not limited to frequent absenteeism, repeated discipline infractions, students who are more than two grade levels behind, students enrolled in the pre-GED/Skills Options Program, families being served by FINS/CASA, and other factors and/or subgroups recognized in or by federal legislation.

Registered Apprenticeship Registered Apprenticeship is a rigorous “earn while you learn” model that provides a combination of on-the-job learning and related classroom instruction in which workers learn the practical and theoretical aspects of a highly skilled occupation.

Sector Initiatives – Regional, industry-focused approaches to workforce and economic development. They improve access to good jobs and/or increase job quality in ways that strengthen an industry’s workforce.

Skills Certificates Portable, industry-recognized credentials that certify that the holder has demonstrated competency in a core set of performance standards related to an occupational cluster as identified by the industry. Local skill certificates, designed in conjunction with and recognized by local business and industry, are credentials designed for the Skills Options Program and prepare students who have lower-level skills for entry-level work.

Success Through Articulation (Start) A joint initiative between the Board of Regents, Department of Education, and LCTCS designed to provide secondary students with the opportunity to take classes for articulated credit while in high school, for which they will receive postsecondary credit once they enroll into college.

Technical Competency Area (TCA) – An applied course or a series of courses (1 – 12 hours).A TCA provides a student with a specific technical competency. TCAs are strictly limited to technical and community colleges. Approval authority for implementation of a TCA shall reside with the appropriate management board or their designated staff.

Tech Prep – Tech Prep is a federally funded initiative. Tech Prep programs focus on articulation between secondary and postsecondary vocational-technical educational institutions designed to ease the transition between secondary instruction and advanced technical programs with required proficiency in mathematics, science, communication, and technologies to lead to an associate degree or certificate in specific career fields.

Transfer – A student who enrolls at an institution for the first time who has previously attended another postsecondary institution. (BOR State-wide Student Profile System)