SECTION 9.117. Funding

(a) Contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a student in a workforce continuing education course offered by a public junior college shall be included in the contact hours used to determine the college's proportionate share of state money appropriated and distributed to public junior colleges under Texas Education Code §130.003 and §130.0031, regardless of whether the college waives all or part of the tuition or fees for the course under §130.304.

(b) Workforce continuing education courses with fewer than seven (7) contact hours of instruction will not receive state funding unless the specific type and length of instruction are required by local, state, or national licensing, certifying, regulatory, or accrediting agencies.

(c) No funds appropriated to any public two-year college may be expended for any workforce continuing education course which has not been approved by the Board staff.

(d) Avocational courses shall not be eligible for state appropriations. This includes community interest courses. A community college can offer community interest courses using local funds.

(e) Workforce Education Course Manual continuing education special topics courses that are not designed to prepare adult students for employment shall not be eligible for state appropriations. This includes basic employability courses, basic learning skills courses and learning framework courses.

Source Note: The provisions of this §9.117 adopted to be effective February 28, 2018, 43 TexReg 1077