N.Y. Education Law § 6303: Programs and curricula of community colleges

§ 6303. Programs and curricula of community colleges. 1. Community

colleges shall provide two-year programs of post high school nature

combining general education with technical education relating to the

occupational needs of the community, area or community college region in

which the college is located and those of the state and the nation

generally. Special courses and extension work may be provided for

part-time students.

2. Training for certain occupational skills may be limited to selected

community colleges by the state university trustees in order to avoid

unnecessary duplication or overlapping of facilities and programs.

3. The curricula in community colleges shall be designed to serve the

needs of students who seek two years of post secondary education and

whose needs would not ordinarily be met by the usual four-year college

curriculum. However, such colleges shall nevertheless provide sufficient

general education to enable qualified students who so desire to transfer

after completion of the community college program to institutions

providing regular four-year courses except that the provision of such

general education sufficient for transfer to institutions providing

regular four-year courses shall be at the option of the local sponsor in

any of the community colleges established upon discontinuance of a state

institute of applied arts and sciences and upon discontinuance of the

veterans vocational school at Troy pursuant to the provisions of section

fifty-nine hundred nine of former article one hundred nineteen of this

chapter.

4. The curricula of the community colleges shall be developed with the

assistance and guidance of the state university trustees and shall be

subject to their approval, and such modifications, amendments and

revisions as they may from time to time prescribe.

5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or

local law, rule or regulation, community colleges may permit persons

sixty years of age or over to audit courses given therein without

tuition, examination, grading or credit therefor upon a space available

basis, subject to the provisions of section sixty-three hundred four of

this chapter, as determined by the president of each such institution,

provided that such audit attendance does not deny course attendance at a

community college by an individual who is otherwise qualified under the

regulations and the provisions of section sixty-three hundred four of

this chapter. The provisions of this paragraph shall not affect any

state aid to community colleges granted pursuant to article one hundred

twenty-six of this chapter.

6. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other general, special or

local law, rule or regulation, each community college, or the entity or

entities responsible for setting tuition at such institution, shall be

authorized to set a reduced rate of tuition and/or fees, or to waive

tuition and/or fees entirely, for students participating in any dual or

concurrent enrollment program with no reduction in other state, local,

or other support for such students earning college credit that such

higher education partner would otherwise be eligible to receive;

provided that, for purposes of this provision, a dual or concurrent

enrollment program shall mean one or more college courses taken by a

high school student through a community college while such student is

still enrolled in high school or boards of cooperative educational

services and for which the student may receive both high school and

college credit.