School Administrators

Publications Policy

In order to support our efforts to raise awareness in the community about our CollegeNow programs, especially Concurrent Enrollment, we ask that our partner schools follow the following guidelines when they publish course descriptions of CollegeNow courses in their high school program of study (or equivalent publication which students use to select their courses for the coming school year).

SAMPLE ENTRY:

1. At the head of the course description, please insert the small version of our CollegeNow logo. We would like to build community awareness of the partnership you have built with TC3 and the logo will help achieve this. You can download that JPEG here. Once the new browser window opens with the logo, right click and select "save image as" to save the file to your computer.
2. Please use this specific language somewhere in the course description "This is a Concurrent Enrollment course with college credit from TC3." This phrase is the minimum required. We recommend that you also specify the number of credits a successful student will earn from TC3.
3. Please do not refer to Concurrent Enrollment courses as AP or Advanced Placement courses. Using these terms interchangeably is confusing to parents and students. There is a clear difference between AP and Concurrent Enrollment that we would like to maintain. (Several programs of study, which we reviewed this year, use these terms interchangeably. Several booklets also spend time discussing how AP will be calculated in the grade point average, but do not give the same treatment to Concurrent Enrollment.) Please review your course of study and see how it presents Concurrent Enrollment courses.
4. We suggest that somewhere in your program of studies, you repeat the logo with an explanation for what it means, like this:
   
   This logo is used throughout our course of studies to designate courses, which have been created in partnership with TC3, for Concurrent Enrollment. Concurrent Enrollment gives you real college credit with a college transcript. As part of the State University of New York (SUNY), TC3's credits are highly transferable to colleges and universities around the nation. TC3’s transcripts do NOT specially mark these courses as "Concurrent Enrollment". We consider these to be TC3 courses. Your instructor has had their credentials reviewed against college standards, and TC3 faculty has approved the curriculum. High school teachers are "adjuncts", teaching the same material, with the same textbooks, to the same standards that are used on TC3’s campus. Your transcript will not distinguish between a TC3 course taken at the high school campus or on the main campus in Dryden.

Thank you for taking the time to review this policy. Please support this policy in your district and share a copy of it with your guidance secretary, or the person who is in charge of publishing your high school’s course of studies. We look forward to many further years of successful partnership!