Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 589 - HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMISSION, OFFICE OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT › Division 2 - COMMUNITY COLLEGE FUNDING › Section 589-002-0110 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
The following definitions apply to OAR 589-002-0100  through
				589-002-0130.
(1) "Adult" is any
			 student who is 25 years or older as of July 1 in a given academic
			 year.
(2) "Annual Growth Factor
			 (AGF)" is one-half of the Biennial Growth Management Component.
(3) "Base Payment" is an allocation made
			 through the Community College Distribution Model which provides funding for
			 basic community college district operations that are essential and do not vary
			 in direct proportion to the districts' Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) student
			 enrollment. The base allocation increases stability and predictability of
			 funding for individual colleges.
(4) "Biennial Growth Management Component" is
			 the percent change, from one biennium to the next, of the total number of FTE
			 for all community college districts that could be included in the funding
			 formula without reducing resources available per FTE. The biennial growth
			 management component is determined by the amount of total public resources
			 available for the current biennium compared to the prior biennium and the
			 estimated increased cost of FTE.
(5) "Career and Technical Education (CTE)" is
			 any student for whom a plurality of their completed coursework in the given
			 academic year takes place in Activity (ACTI) codes 210, 211, 220, 230 or
			 363.
(6) "Community College
			 Distribution Model" is the formula by which funds are distributed pursuant to
			 OAR 589-002-120 (6).
(7) "Community
			 College Support Fund (CCSF)" includes funding appropriated by the Legislature
			 from the state's General Fund for the benefit of the community colleges to
			 support various educational programs. This includes the set aside programs and
			 funding distributed through the Community College Distribution Model.
(8) "Completions" is the number of students
			 who have earned a HECC approved credential during the given academic year. This
			 includes associate degrees, career pathways certificates of completion,
			 noncredit training certificates, and less than one-year certificates and
			 two-year certificates.
(9)
			 "Contracted Out-of-District (COD) Reimbursable FTE" means full-time equivalent
			 students that are not residents in the community college district that they are
			 attending and for which the community college district has a contract to
			 provide educational services with an entity in the geographic area from which
			 the student resides. COD reimbursable FTE must meet all other requirements for
			 reimbursable FTE. The community college district must have a contract in place
			 with the Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development in order to
			 receive reimbursement.
(10)
			 "Equalized Funding" means equal public resource support per funded FTE,
			 regardless of community college district, and exclusive of the base.
			 Equalization is measured by dividing Total Public Resources, exclusive of the
			 base, by funded FTE.
(11) "Federal
			 Pell Grant" is a grant awarded by the United States Department of Education to
			 eligible students at American institutions of higher education largely on the
			 basis of financial need.
(12) "FTE
			 Cap" is the maximum number of Community College Distribution Model reimbursable
			 FTE per community college district, which may be included in the funding
			 formula calculation. The FTE cap is determined by applying the annual growth
			 factor and may be adjusted by the preliminary FTE cap as described in Section
			 14.
(13) "Full-Time Equivalent
			 (FTE) student" for the purpose of receiving state reimbursement, means a
			 student who carries 510 clock hours over three terms of instruction for all
			 terms including a fall 12-week term. All colleges with an 11-week fall term
			 will have their fall term clock hours increased to the equivalent 12-week hours
			 for the purpose of calculating reimbursable FTE.
(14) "Fundable FTE" is the number of
			 full-time equivalent students that are at or below each community college
			 district's FTE Cap. Fundable FTE is the lesser of either the Community College
			 Distribution Model reimbursable FTE or the FTE cap. This number is used in the
			 three-year weighted average calculation that determines a community college
			 district's funded FTE as described in Section 11 of this rule.
(15) "Funded FTE" is the community college
			 district's number of full-time equivalent students used in the formula to
			 distribute the Community College Distribution Model funding for each community
			 college district. This number is buffered to prevent significant changes in a
			 community college district's funding due to variability in student enrollment.
			 It is calculated using a three-year weighted average of fundable FTE with the
			 first year prior to current fundable FTE weighted at 40%, second year prior to
			 current fundable FTE weighted at 30%, and third year prior to current fundable
			 FTE weighted at 30%.
(16) "Gateway
			 Course" is defined as any student who has earned credit in a college-level
			 English, writing, or math course during the given academic year.
(17) "Growth Management" means the
			 application of the Growth Management Component in combination with each
			 community college district's FTE cap
(18) "Headcount" is the total count of
			 students attending any community college in a given academic year, regardless
			 of number or type of courses they are enrolled in.
(19) "Higher Education Coordinating
			 Commission's Biennial Quality Growth Factor" is a policy lever that allows the
			 number of FTE that will be counted for funding purposes to be above or below
			 the Biennial Growth Management Component.
(20) "Low Income" is any student who has
			 received either a Federal Pell Grant or Oregon Opportunity Grant at any Oregon
			 Community College.
(21)
			 "Non-Credit" is any student who has completed a certain amount of adult
			 education and/or non-credit workforce training during the given academic year.
			 This includes students who have earned 6 contact hours or more in courses coded
			 in activity code 363 and students who have earned 12 contact hours or more in
			 courses in activity codes 310, 320, 330, and 340.
(22) "Oregon Opportunity Grant (OOG)" is a
			 grant awarded by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to eligible
			 Oregon resident students pursuant to ORS
			 348.205.
(23) "Preliminary FTE Cap" is a tool that
			 allows a community college district to recover fundable FTE within one year, if
			 the district's Community College Distribution Model reimbursable FTE is less
			 than the FTE cap. There are two preliminary FTE caps. The first is based on the
			 FTE cap from one year prior and the second is based on the prior year's
			 fundable FTE. The annual growth factor (as defined in Section 19 below) is
			 applied to each. The current year's FTE cap is the greater of these two
			 numbers.
(24) "Prioritized
			 Populations" include any students who are low income, adult, in CTE programs or
			 from an underrepresented racial/ethnic group.
(25) "Property tax revenues" means the amount
			 determined by the Department of Revenue to be imposed on local property
			 following the application of limits imposed by sections 11(b)(1) through
			 11(b)(3), Article XI, of the Oregon Constitution, and those limits imposed by
			 legislation. This amount becomes the basis for operation of the funding formula
			 without regard to uncollectible taxes, or taxes collected from previous years.
			 Taxes levied or imposed by a community college district to provide a public
			 library system shall be excluded from the definition of property taxes in this
			 rule. Property tax revenues raised through voter approval of any local option
			 or capital construction levy are not to be included as a resource to be
			 distributed through the Community College Distribution Model.
(26) "Reimbursable FTE" means full-time
			 equivalent students that are eligible, as described in OAR 589-002-0110  Sections (2) through (5) of this rule, for state funding through the Community
			 College Distribution Model, before the application of the Annual Growth Factor
			 (AGF), and less any adjustments for FTE of upper division courses included in
			 applied baccalaureate programs (defined in OAR 589-006-0050).
(27) "Student Success Funding" is funding
			 based on a student's progression towards, or completion of, a degree,
			 certificate, or credential.
(28)
			 "Student Support Funding" is funding based on the number and type of students
			 who are from one or more prioritized populations.
(29) "Total Biennial Growth Management
			 Component" is the sum of the Biennial Growth Management Component and the
			 Higher Education Coordinating Commission's Biennial Quality Growth
			 Factor.
(30) "Total Funded FTE" is
			 the sum of all community college districts' funded FTE for a fiscal
			 year.
(31) "Total Public Resources
			 (TPR)" include 100% of the next year's imposed property tax revenue and the
			 portion of the General Fund appropriation from the legislature available for
			 distribution through the Community College Distribution Model. TPR does not
			 include tuition and fees paid by students.
(32) "Total Reimbursable FTE" means full-time
			 equivalent students that are eligible for state reimbursement. These students
			 must receive instruction from community college districts through either a
			 contracted out-of district (COD) agreement described in OAR 589-002-0600, an
			 agreement to provide services to state penitentiary or correctional institution
			 inmates described in OAR 589-002-0700, or are Community College Distribution
			 Model reimbursable FTE, described in Sections (2) through (5) and Section (8)
			 of this rule.
(33)
			 "Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Group" is any student who identifies as a
			 member of one or more of the following groups: Asian American/Asian,
			 Black/African American, Latino/a/x/Hispanic, Multiracial, Native
			 American/Alaskan Native or Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.
Tables referenced are not included in rule text. Click here
				  for PDF copy of table(s).
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  350.075, ORS
				  341.015, ORS
				  341.022, ORS
				  341.317, ORS
				  341.440, ORS
				  341.525, ORS
				  341.626 & ORS
				  341.665
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  341.626