§ 135A.101 — Postsecondary Enrollment Options
Plain-Language Summary
This law sets rules for the Postsecondary Enrollment Options (PSEO) program, which lets high school students take college courses. Colleges cannot enroll PSEO students in developmental or non-college-level courses. If a PSEO student completes a transfer curriculum course at one Minnesota State school, all Minnesota State schools must accept it.
135A.101 POSTSECONDARY ENROLLMENT OPTIONS.
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Subdivision 1.Requirements for participation.
To participate in the postsecondary enrollment options program, a college or university must abide by the provisions in this section. The institution may provide information about its programs to a secondary school or to a pupil or parent and may recruit or solicit participation on educational and programmatic grounds. §
Subd. 2.Prohibition.
An institution shall not enroll secondary pupils, for postsecondary enrollment options purposes, in developmental courses or other courses that are not college level. For the purposes of this section, a “developmental course” means a postsecondary course taken to prepare a student for college-level work and for which the postsecondary institution does not grant credit or which cannot be used to meet degree, diploma, or certificate requirements. §
Subd. 3.Minnesota transfer curriculum.
Notwithstanding section 135A.08 or other law to the contrary, all MnSCU institutions must give full credit to a secondary pupil who completes for postsecondary credit a postsecondary course or program that is part or all of a goal area or a transfer curriculum at a MnSCU institution when the pupil enrolls in a MnSCU institution after leaving secondary school. Once one MnSCU institution certifies as completed a secondary student’s postsecondary course or program that is part or all of a goal area or a transfer curriculum, every MnSCU institution must consider the student’s course or program for that goal area or the transfer curriculum as completed.
History:
1995 c 212 art 2 s 3; 2012 c 239 art 1 s 29; 1Sp2015 c 3 art 2 s 61
History: History: 1995 c 212 art 2 s 3; 2012 c 239 art 1 s 29; 1Sp2015 c 3 art 2 s 61