“Dual credit classes benefit both parents and students. We appreciated the reduced tuition while our son was earning college credits in high school. The classes proved an easy transition between high school and college work.”
-Parent of a dual credit student
Dual Credit
Dual Credit
- Masters in Field
- 18 graduate hours in Field
- Tested experience
As remuneration, textbooks are provided to all students in course, including those for High School credit only. Textbooks are reused until book changes or course is discontinued.
Faculty liaison is assigned by academic department:
- Provide training prior to commencement of course
- Assures course syllabus, textbook, and assessment strategies are consistent with on-campus courses of the same course number
- Mentors Dual Credit instructor to assure those equivalences
- Monitoring course for adherence to departmental and institutional policies regarding dual credit offerings
- Ensuring that Dual Credit instructor has materials necessary for the course Communicating to Department Chair and WI Special Credit Programs Coordinator any issues of concern regarding student enrollment, student performance, course content and rigor, and instructor performance
- Training Dual Credit instructor in adherence to Early Intervention Policy
- Conducts high school site visit for class observation a minimum of one time per semester submits site visit report to WI Special Credit Programs Coordinator
- Verifies student eligibility according to CBHE/MDHE guidelines
Each high school has a separate section in the WI Dual Credit term. These sections are 700s.
Dual Enrollment
Dual Enrollment
Team taught by MWSU Faculty and approved high school teacher (i.e. CHE111, BIO101, MATH116, MAT119, ENG104, ENG108):
- High school teacher is not required to have graduate hours in field, but must be approved by MWSU instructor of record (usually requires certification and/or undergraduate degree in field)
- Training with instructor of record is required
- While the course may be a mix and dual enrollment, MWSU provides no support for high school credit only students (including textbooks)
- High school teacher may be responsible for some grading as set forth by MWSU instructor
- Final grade is assigned by MWSU instructor
- MWSU instructor interfaces with students, online and/or in person
- Typically, the high school teacher fulfills a “TA” role
- High school teach has access to view their students in Canvas, has MWSU email account
- MWSU instructor mag give the high school teacher the ability to adjust the course calendar in Canvas (i.e. exam dates)
Each high school has a separate section in the WI Dual Credit term. Collaborative course sections are 500s.
Taught exclusively by MWSU Faculty:
- High school assigns facilitator to access grades for report cards
- Facilitator serves as a line of communication between student and instructor in emergency situations
- Facilitator has MWSU email account, can access their school’s section of course in Canvas.
Each high school has a separate section in the WI Dual Credit term. These sections are 400s.
On-Campus
Students are enrolled in the same on-campus section with regular students:
- Students receive the dual credit tuition rate as long as the high school completes paperwork to verify that they will transcript high school credit
- Students are responsible for books/ancillaries
- Facilitator does not have access to Canvas, but does have a MWSU email account and confidentiality agreement.
- Facilitator may obtain student grades from the WI Special Credit Programs Coordinator
Online
Students are enrolled in the same online class sections:
- Students receive the dual credit tuition rate as long as the high school completes paperwork to verify that they will transcript high school credit
- Students are responsible for books/ancillaries
- Facilitator does not have access to Canvas, but does have a MWSU email account and confidentiality agreement.
- Facilitator may obtain student grades from the WI Special Credit Programs Coordinator
Visiting HS Student
Visiting HS Student
Currently handed by Admissions:
- Students do not receive the dual credit tuition rate
- Students are not required to meet CBHE/MDHE dual credit eligibility
- High School does not agree to transcript high school credit
- Letter of good standing from high school is required
- Students are responsible for books/ancillaries
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Why Missouri Western?
No limit on early college credit hours students may complete in high school.
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Why Missouri Western?
Early College Academy saves you tuition dollars.
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Why Missouri Western?
$98 credit hour tuition, less than ½ of regular tuition