California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 6 - California Community Colleges › Chapter 9 - Fiscal Support › Subchapter 1 - Attendance › Article 2 - Attendance Reporting Procedures › Section 58003.1 - Full-Time Equivalent Student; Computation of Units

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Pursuant to the provisions of section
					 58051, the units of full-time
					 equivalent student for apportionment purposes shall be computed for courses,
					 including those delivered by distance education under article 1 (commencing
					 with section
					 55200) of subchapter 3 of chapter
					 6, based on the type of course, the way the course is scheduled, and the length
					 of the course.
(b) The governing
					 board of each community college district shall, for each of its colleges or its
					 district, select and establish a single primary term length for credit courses
					 that are scheduled regularly with respect to the number of days of the week and
					 the number of hours the course meets each week, inclusive of holidays. The
					 units of full-time equivalent student of credit courses scheduled coterminously
					 with the term, exclusive of independent study and work-experience education
					 courses, shall be computed by multiplying the student contact hours of active
					 enrollment as of Monday of the weeks nearest to one-fifth of the length of the
					 term, unless other weeks are specified by the Chancellor to incorporate past
					 practice, by the term length multiplier, and divided by 525. The term length
					 multiplier for attendance accounting purposes shall be determined in accordance
					 with this chapter, provided that the maximum multiplier for semester length
					 terms shall be 17.5 and the maximum multiplier for quarter length terms shall
					 be 11.67.
(c) For credit courses
					 scheduled to meet for five or more days and scheduled regularly with respect to
					 the number of hours during each scheduled day, but not scheduled coterminously
					 with the college's primary term established pursuant to subdivision (b), or
					 scheduled during the summer or other intersession, the units of full-time
					 equivalent student, exclusive of independent study and work-experience
					 education courses, shall be computed by multiplying the daily student contact
					 hours of active enrollment as of the census days nearest to one fifth of the
					 length of the course by the number of days the course is scheduled to meet, and
					 dividing by 525.
(d) For credit
					 courses scheduled to meet for fewer than five days, and all credit courses
					 scheduled irregularly with respect to the number of days of the week and the
					 number of hours the course meets on the scheduled days, the units of full-time
					 equivalent student, exclusive of independent study and work-experience
					 education courses, shall be computed by dividing actual student contact hours
					 of attendance by 525.
(e) For all
					 open entry-open exit credit courses and for all noncredit courses otherwise
					 eligible for state aid, except those described in subdivision (f), the units of
					 full-time equivalent student shall be computed by dividing actual student
					 contact hours of attendance by 525.
(f) For distance education courses not
					 computed using other attendance accounting procedures described in this section
					 and for independent study, correspondence and work-experience education
					 courses, the following alternative attendance accounting procedure shall be
					 used:
(1) For credit courses, for purposes of
					 computing full-time equivalent student only, one weekly student contact hour
					 shall be counted for each unit of credit for which a student is enrolled in one
					 of those courses. The full-time equivalent student of those courses shall be
					 computed by multiplying the units of credit for which students are enrolled as
					 of the census day prescribed in subdivision (b) or (c), as appropriate, for the
					 primary term or intersession and duration for which the course is scheduled, by
					 17.5 for colleges on the semester system and by 11.67 for colleges on the
					 quarter system and dividing by 525.
(2) For noncredit course sections covered by
					 this subdivision, for purposes of computing full-time equivalent student only,
					 weekly student contact hours shall be derived by counting the total hours of
					 instruction or programming received by the students, plus instructor contact as
					 defined in sections
					 55204 or
					 55234, plus outside-of-class work
					 expected as noted in the course outline of record and approved by the
					 curriculum committee, and dividing the total number of hours for the course
					 thus derived by 54. Hours of instruction or programming received shall be
					 independently verified by the instructor using a method or procedure approved
					 by the district according to policies adopted by the local governing board as
					 required by section
					 58030. Full-time equivalent student
					 for such noncredit course sections shall be computed by:
(A) multiplying the average of the number of
					 students actively enrolled in the section as of each census date (those dates
					 nearest to one-fifth and three-fifths of the length of the course section)
					 by,
(B) the weekly student contact
					 hours as derived above in this section, by
(C) the primary term length multiplier of
					 17.5, and
(D) dividing by
					 525.