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715-025-0085 DECLARATION OF LACK OF TIMELY PROGRESS FOR COMMON COURSE NUMBERING ARTICULATION POLICY DEVELOPMENT (1) If the Transfer Council has not approved one or more Common Course Numbering Articulation Policies (CCNAP) listed in the annual plan adopted by the Transfer Council in the preceding calendar year, the Commission may declare lack of timely progress. The Commission shall consider any written notice provided by the Transfer Council. (2) The Commission shall not declare a lack of timely progress if the Commission finds that the Transfer Council has approved a sufficient number of CCNAPs as necessary to make sufficient progress toward the establishment of a common course numbering system. (3) Upon such a declaration, the Executive Director, or the Executive Director’s designee, is charged with studying the matter to formulate draft CCNAPs for the Transfer Council. In addition to the work produced by the Transfer Council, the Executive Director, or designee, shall request information and input from chief academic officers at post-secondary public institutions. (4) The Executive Director, or the Executive Director’s designee, shall provide a recommendation to the Transfer Council not sooner than 90 days from the date the Commission makes such a declaration. (5) The Executive Director, or the Executive Director’s designee may hire consultants and may consult institutions to assist the Executive Director, or the Executive Director’s designee, in developing the final draft of the CCNAP for the Transfer Council. (6) Upon completion of the final draft of the CCNAP, the Executive Director, or the Executive Director’s designee, will return the CCNAP to the Transfer Council for consideration and approval. The Transfer Council must approve the CCNAP, in the manner specified in OAR 715-025-0080(5) within 90 days of receipt from the Commission, or such other time as the Commission may determine in the declaration of lack of timely progress. (7) Notwithstanding sections (1) through (6) of this rule, the Commission may, for any CCNAP not approved by the Transfer Council as listed in its annual plan, require the Transfer Council to include the development of such CCNAP in the CCNAP development plan for the calendar year following the year the common course was first included in the plan. (8) Notwithstanding section (2) of this rule, the Commission may declare a lack of timely progress for any CCNAP not approved by the Transfer Council following its inclusion in two consecutive CCNAP development plans. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.395, ORS 350.429 & ORS 350.423 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.395 & ORS 350.429 History: HECC 3-2024, adopt filed 10/11/2024, effective 10/11/2024
715-025-0090 POSSIBLE COMMISSION ACTION ON COMMON COURSE NUMBERING ARTICULATION POLICIES The Commission may take the following actions related to the development and approval of Common Course Numbering Articulation Policies (CCNAP): (1) In accordance with OAR 715-025-0065(3), include additional courses in the Transfer Council’s annual CCNAP development plan. (2) Upon the receipt of a recommendation from the Transfer Council pursuant to OAR 715-025-0065(5), reduce, on an ongoing basis, the number of CCNAPs the Transfer Council is required to specify for development in a given calendar year or, pursuant to OAR 715-025-065(6), on basis and justification from the Council that the common course numbering system has been substantially established and further development of new CCNAPs is unlikely to produce statewide benefit to students, eliminate the requirement that the Council develop new CCNAPs. (3) Upon receipt of a recommendation from the Transfer Council pursuant to OAR 715-025-0080(4), vote to exclude a common course from the requirement that a CCNAP be developed. The Commission may, upon further consideration, vote to reestablish the requirement for such common course. (4) Pursuant to OAR 715-025-0085(7), require the Transfer Council to include a CCNAP in a CCNAP development plan. (5) Pursuant to OAR 715-025-0085, declare a lack of timely progress. (6) Upon approval of a CCNAP by the Transfer Council, the Commission shall notify institutions in writing of the approval and specify the catalog year the common course for which a CCNAP has been approved must be available for student enrollment. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.395, ORS 350.429 & ORS 350.423 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.395 & ORS 350.429 History: HECC 3-2024, adopt filed 10/11/2024, effective 10/11/2024
715-025-0100 EFFECT OF COMMON COURSE NUMBERING ARTICULATION POLICY ADOPTION ON INSTITUTIONS (1) All institutions shall participate in the common course numbering system. (2) Institutions offering a course for which a Common Course Numbering Articulation Policies (CCNAP) has been approved shall, in the catalog year specified by the Commission, offer students such course in accordance with the associated CCNAP. (3) Any institution that enrolls a student who has completed a CCNAP course shall not require a student to retake a course except as provided in section (4) of this rule. (4) Any institution that enforces a grade requirement for a CCNAP course as a minimum for the awarding of credit, as an admission requirement for a specific program, or as a minimum grade required for all major courses, shall have a uniform requirement without regard to the institution of origin Such institution may require a student who has completed such course but has received a grade below the institution’s requirement to retake such course. (5) An institution must treat each a CCNAP course as if it were taken at that institution with respect to: (a) Satisfying general education requirements for graduation; and (b) Satisfying any requirements for a major in a baccalaureate or associate degree program (6) An institution may not require a student to take a corequisite course designed to provide additional student contact hours as a condition of enrollment in any CCNAP course unless such course is designed to provide additional academic support for students the institution determines require such support, and the CCNAP course for which the corequisite is required is an introductory math or writing course. (7) An institution may not offer a course similar in course description and course learning outcomes, but that is not subject to a CCNAP, unless the institution follows the provisions of OAR 715-025-0115, or unless the Council determines upon approval of such CCNAP that the offering of such course is necessary to facilitate a transition to a new group courses subject to CCNAPs that are designed to be taken sequentially. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.395, ORS 350.429 & ORS 350.423 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.395 & ORS 350.429 History: HECC 1-2026, minor correction filed 01/26/2026, effective 01/26/2026 HECC 3-2024, adopt filed 10/11/2024, effective 10/11/2024
715-025-0105 COMMON COURSE NUMBERING ARTICULATION POLICY COURSE TERMINATION (1) An institution may terminate a course subject to a Common Course Numbering Articulation Policy (CCNAP). It shall notify the Transfer Council at the time the termination decision is made. (2) An institution that terminates a course subject to a CCNAP shall, for no fewer than seven academic years following the year of termination, provide all rights and guarantees of such CCNAP to any student enrolled at an institution at the time of course termination. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.395, ORS 350.429 & ORS 350.423 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.395 & ORS 350.429 History: HECC 3-2024, adopt filed 10/11/2024, effective 10/11/2024
715-025-0110 REVIEW OF ADOPTED COMMON COURSE NUMBERING ARTICULATION POLICIES (1) The Transfer Council shall ensure the ongoing alignment of courses subject to Common Course Numbering Articulation Policies (CCNAP) between institutions. (2) Any CCNAP approved by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission prior to the initial adoption of OAR 715-025-0065 to OAR 715-025-0115 shall remain in effect as though adopted by the Transfer Council pursuant to OAR 715-025-0080, until such CCNAP is reviewed by the Transfer Council. Upon review, the Transfer Council shall ensure such CCNAP is compliant with the provisions of OAR 715-025-0065 to OAR 715-025-0115. Should the Council determine that the CCNAP is not compliant, the Council shall include the development of a compliant CCNAP in the Councils next CCNAP development plan. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.395, ORS 350.429 & ORS 350.423 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.395 & ORS 350.429 History: HECC 3-2024, adopt filed 10/11/2024, effective 10/11/2024
715-025-0115 OFFERING OF NEW OR MODIFICATION OF EXISTING COURSES BY INSTITUTIONS (1) An institution shall notify the Transfer Council when it is seeking: (a) to offer a course that is similar in course description and course learning outcomes to a course for which there is an adopted Common Course Numbering Articulation Policy (CCNAP) or CCNAP under consideration by the Transfer Council, but that is not subject to a CCNAP; or (b) to modify a course that would have the effect of causing the institution to be out of compliance with obligations under a CCNAP. (2) The Transfer Council shall, within one year, determine: (a) Whether the institution may offer such course as proposed; (b) Whether the institution may not offer such course unless it adheres to the terms of an adopted CCNAP or a CCNAP under consideration; or (c) Whether an existing CCNAP shall be modified to account for such course. (3) An institution shall notify the Transfer Council when it is seeking to offer a course for which it intends to adhere to the terms of an adopted CCNAP and provide any documentation required by the Council. Upon notification and the receipt of required documentation, the Council shall include the institution in such CCNAP. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.395, ORS 350.429 & ORS 350.423 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.395 & ORS 350.429 History: HECC 3-2024, adopt filed 10/11/2024, effective 10/11/2024
715-030-0005 Survey Development Proposed additional institution-specific questions shall be submitted to the commission for consideration by the Sexual Misconduct Survey Council within 60 days of submission. The Council shall ensure questions do not require the disclosure of any personally identifiable information and are not objectively traumatizing for victims of sexual harassment. Statutory/Other Authority: 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: 350.338 History: HECC 3-2025, adopt filed 10/10/2025, effective 10/10/2025
715-030-0010 Survey of Enrolled Students; Information to be Posted on Website (1) Each institution of higher education shall administer a sexual misconduct survey within two academic years from the date the commission first distributes the survey to the institutions. Each subsequent administration of the survey by an institution shall occur no greater than two academic years following the institution's administration of the prior survey. (2) Each institution shall administer only the most recent sexual misconduct survey the commission distributes. (3) Institutions shall implement ethical principles and standards for survey administration, data collection, and data utilization, and administer the survey consistent with those principles. In forming such principles and standards, institutions shall consider the Oregon Campus Sexual Misconduct Survey Implementation Guide published by the Commission. Institutions shall include information about the ethical standards they have adopted in the survey and include a link to the standards in the aggregate summary of survey results. If institutions contract with third-parties for administration of the survey, they shall ensure that the third-party contractors also abide by the adopted professional and ethical standards. (4) The online platform used to collect survey data shall not collect IP addresses or any other information that could be used to identify a respondent or any personally identifiable information other than what is required to be included in the sexual misconduct survey by ORS 350.337 . (5) The institution shall submit the summary of the survey results as defined by the commission in a format the commission provides. The information submitted to the commission shall not include any personally identifiable information. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.337 & ORS 350.338 History: HECC 8-2025, amend filed 12/12/2025, effective 12/12/2025 HECC 3-2025, adopt filed 10/10/2025, effective 10/10/2025
715-030-0011 Maximizing survey response rates (1) Institutions shall implement survey solicitation, recruitment and dissemination practices that will encourage students to respond to the survey. In implementing these practices, institutions shall adhere to trauma-informed frameworks and consider the Oregon Campus Sexual Misconduct Survey Implementation Guide published by the Commission. (2) Strategies or practices adopted by institutions to maximize response rates shall not require students to respond to the survey or penalize students for not responding to the survey. (3) Institutions may use incentives to encourage student participation in the survey. To avoid coercion, incentives must be equally available to all students responding to the survey including students that do not complete and submit their responses. (4) Institutions shall include survey response rates and completion rates in the summary of results submitted to the Commission and published on the institution’s website. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.339 History: HECC 8-2025, adopt filed 12/12/2025, effective 12/12/2025
715-030-0012 Protecting student anonymity (1) Institutions shall remove personally identifiable information not required by ORS 350.337 from an individual’s responses to the survey. (2) Institutions must store, access, and preserve survey data with secure procedures matching the security level for other sensitive data at the institution. (3) Access to the survey database must be limited to professionals trained in confidential information handling. The titles of all individuals with access, including employees of third-party vendors, must be listed in recruitment materials and on the institution’s survey site. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.338 History: HECC 8-2025, adopt filed 12/12/2025, effective 12/12/2025
715-030-0015 Required Employment of Certified Advocate, Qualifications, Duties, and Exceptions (1) An institution shall employ at least one certified advocate as part of an institution-based qualified victim services program unless the institution: (a) does not have an institution-based qualified victim service program, or (b) has fewer than 1,000 enrolled students who reside on campus. (2) An institution that meets the provisions of either subsection (a) or (b) of section (1) shall partner with a local victim advocacy organization to provide the services of an advocate without charge to enrolled students and ensure that the organization’s advocate has regular scheduled on-campus office hours as agreed upon by the institution and the local victim advocacy organization or obtain a waiver under OAR 715-030 0025. (3) The institution shall make a reasonable effort to provide a space for use by the advocate that allows for confidentiality of access and conversation and is located away from offices used by campus security and staff involved in sexual misconduct investigation and disciplinary processes. (4) For the purposes of ORS 350.340(4)(b), the advocate shall meet the requirements by annually sending information to all staff informing them of their duties should they be asked to provide or enforce supportive measures or accommodations. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 40.264 & ORS 350.340 History: HECC 3-2025, adopt filed 10/10/2025, effective 10/10/2025
715-030-0020 Required Memorandum of Understanding and Exceptions (1) Each institution of higher education shall enter into and maintain a memorandum of understanding with a community-based domestic and sexual violence advocacy agency that is in the same county as the institution. (2) The agency shall review the institution’s sexual misconduct training materials for students and employees; the institution shall consider incorporating any feedback provided by the agency. (3) Services offered to students and employees of an institution by the agency pursuant to the memorandum shall be made available on campus and off campus; they may be offered virtually if the student or employee prefers. (4) Neither the agency nor the institution may charge any fees to students and employees that access confidential victim services as provided for in this section. (5) Institutions shall submit a copy of the memorandum of understanding to the commission in a manner specified by the commission. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.341 History: HECC 3-2025, adopt filed 10/10/2025, effective 10/10/2025
715-030-0025 Waivers from the Requirements to Partner with Local Community-based Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocacy Agency (1) An institution may submit a request that it be exempted or partially exempted from the requirements of OAR 715-030-0015 and 715-030-0020 if, despite reasonable efforts, it has been unable enter into an agreement to provide advocacy services or establish a memorandum of understanding with a community-based domestic and sexual violence advocacy agency . (2) To request a waiver, an institution shall submit a letter to the commission in a manner to be determined by the commission. The letter shall include the dates for the period for which a waiver is requested; the names and websites or other contact information for agencies contacted by the institution; a description of actions taken during the period for which the waiver is requested toward entering into an agreement to provide advocacy services or a memorandum of understanding with an agency; and a description of services which were requested and whether or not those services were provided. (3) The commission shall make a determination on the waiver request within 30 days of receiving the request. The waiver shall be granted by the commission if the institution shows that it made reasonable good faith efforts to contact agencies to provide the services specified in OAR 715-030-0015 and 715-030-0020, and such agencies did not respond or declined to provide some or all of those services. (4) A waiver granted under this rule shall be no longer than one year in duration, except that an institution may subsequently apply for a waiver renewal. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.340 & ORS 350.341 History: HECC 3-2025, adopt filed 10/10/2025, effective 10/10/2025
715-030-0030 Required Training for Students and Employees of Institution; Contents of Training. (1) An institution shall maintain a list of the individuals with the qualifications required by ORS 350.343(a) to provide guidance to establish annual primary prevention and awareness training. (2) For the purposes of ORS 350.343(1)(a), a certified confidential advocate employed by the institution is an individual with experience identifying protective and risk factors related to violence. (3) Institutions shall not impose any penalty or take any other adverse action against students or employees for nonattendance. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.343 History: HECC 3-2025, adopt filed 10/10/2025, effective 10/10/2025
715-030-0035 Student Waiver from Certain Requirements for Institution-sponsored Programs or Activities; Qualifications for Waiver; Confidentiality of Personal Information. (1) A student who, while enrolled at an institution, has experienced sexual misconduct may request a waiver o f minimum required grade point average or disciplinary record requirements required to demonstrate academic success that are part of an institution-sponsored program or activity identified by the institution. (2) The waiver may be requested by the student verbally or in writing via paper, email, or text. The waiver shall be documented to the student in writing. (3) The student may choose to submit a copy of the waiver directly to the individual or office administering the institution-sponsored program or activity ; or, on direction from the student and consistent with other privacy and confidentiality requirements, the waiver may be provided by the advocate,Title IX coordinator, or equivalent official directly to the individual or office administering the institution-sponsored program or activity. (4) A student shall repeat the waiver process for each institution-sponsored program or activity for which the student is seeking a waiver. (5) Documentation of the waiver provided to the student or to the individual or office administering the institution-sponsored programs or activities shall indicate that it is being granted in compliance with ORS 350.344 and shall not contain information about the specific reason that the waiver was granted. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 350.346 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 350.344 History: HECC 3-2025, adopt filed 10/10/2025, effective 10/10/2025
715-045-0008 Advanced Deposits Prior to the beginning of classes, no private career school shall require from an enrollee an advance deposit in excess of twenty (20) percent of the total tuition and fees: (1) Schools that offer short term programs designed to be completed in one (1) term or four (4) months, whichever is less, can require payment of all tuition and fees on the first day instruction begins; (2) For those programs designed to be four (4) months or longer, a school cannot require more than one (1) term or four (4) months of advanced payment of tuition at a time. When fifty (50) percent of the program has been offered, the school can require payment of all tuition; (3) This limitation shall not apply to federal and state financial aid payments received by the school; (4) At the student's option, a school may accept payment in full for tuition and fees after the student has been accepted and enrolled and the date for commencement of classes is specifically disclosed on the enrollment agreement; and (5) The Executive Director of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission may grant a waiver to this limitation if sufficient evidence is submitted indicating that a larger advance deposit would be more appropriate and not compromise the intent of ORS 345.115(4). Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 345.010 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 345.115 History: Renumbered from 581-045-0008 by HECC 2-2014, f. & cert. ef. 4-23-14 ODE 21-2002, f. 9-26-02 cert. ef. 10-1-02
715-045-0014 Exceptions for Schools with Programs also Regulated by Another State Agency (1) Private career school programs with curriculum or other requirements that are established and approved by another state agency are exempt from having a program advisory committee as defined in OAR 715-045-0013. (2) While the programs described in section (1) of this rule must meet the Higher Education Coordinating Commission's approval criteria for teacher registration, the commission’s executive director may defer approval of the school's teachers to the appropriate state agency. (3) The executive director may modify the financial reporting requirements as described in OAR 715-045-0032 or Student Completion and Placement reporting requirements as described in 715-045-0064 for any school or programs described in subsection (1) of this rule. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 345.325 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 345.325 History: Renumbered from 581-045-0014 by HECC 2-2014, f. & cert. ef. 4-23-14 ODE 16-2010, f. 11-15-10, cert. ef. 1-1-11 ODE 15-2006, f. 12-11-06, cert. ef. 1-1-07 ODE 32-2000, f. 12-11-00 cert. ef. 1-1-01