Allan Hancock College extended its concurrent enrollment program to include college credit classes to more local high school students. The program allows students to take college credit courses in their own high schools before they graduate.
The classes will be available at Orcutt Academy, Family Partnership Charter, Cuyama Valley, Cabrillo, Ernest Righetti, Lompoc, Pioneer Valley, Santa Maria, Santa Ynez, and St. Joseph high schools in the fall.
“Concurrent enrollment is critical because it increases opportunities for students to pursue certificates and degrees or transfer to four-year institutions while in high school,” Emily Smith, Hancock’s project director of K-12 Partnerships, said in a press release from Hancock.
The classes will include topics ranging from American government, history, French, Spanish, statistics, entrepreneurship, life and career planning, physics, and archaeology.
Public school students don’t have to pay for concurrent enrollment classes, but some fees may apply for students in private schools. Participating students must be in their junior or senior year with a minimum 2.5 unweighted grade point average.
Interested students and their parents should meet with high school counselors to plan for the fall schedule and complete the required documentation.
The full list of classes is available at hancockcollege.edu/concurrentenrollment.
This article appears in Jun 22-29, 2017.