The Florida Senate

240.325  Minimum standards, definitions, and guidelines for community colleges.--The State Board of Education shall prescribe minimum standards, definitions, and guidelines for community colleges which will assure the quality of education, systemwide coordination, and efficient progress toward attainment of the community college mission. At a minimum, these rules must address:

(1)  Personnel.

(2)  Contracting.

(3)  Program offerings and classification including college-level communication and computation skills associated with successful performance in college, with tests and other assessment procedures which measure student achievement of those skills. The performance measures shall provide that students moving from one level of education to the next acquire the necessary competencies for that level.

(4)  Provisions for curriculum development, graduation requirements, college calendars, and program service areas. These provisions shall include rules that:

(a)  Provide for the award of an associate in arts degree to a student who successfully completes 60 semester credit hours at the community college.

(b)  Require all of the credits accepted for the associate in arts degree to be in the common course numbering and designation system as credits toward a baccalaureate degree offered by a university in the State University System.

(c)  Require no more than 36 semester credit hours in general education courses in the subject areas of communication, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, and natural sciences.

The rules should encourage community colleges to enter into agreements with universities which allow community college students to complete upper-division-level courses at a community college. An agreement may provide for concurrent enrollment at the community college and the university, authority for the community college to offer an upper-division-level course, or distance learning.

(5)  Student admissions, conduct and discipline, nonclassroom activities, and fees.

(6)  Budgeting.

(7)  Business and financial matters.

(8)  Student services.

(9)  Reports, surveys, and information systems, including forms and dates of submission.

History.--s. 2, ch. 19159, 1939; s. 48, ch. 23726, 1947; s. 1, ch. 29637, 1955; s. 5, ch. 57-252; s. 38, ch. 65-239; s. 70, ch. 72-221; s. 52, ch. 79-222; s. 3, ch. 79-286; s. 7, ch. 83-326; s. 9, ch. 95-243.

Note.--Former ss. 242.42, 230.47, 230.0104, 230.755.