Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 589 - HIGHER EDUCATION COORDINATING COMMISSION, OFFICE OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT › Division 7 - PROGRAMS › Section 589-007-0110 - Apprenticeship Related Training Courses, Work-Based Learning and Academic Credit

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1)
			 Community colleges will cooperate with the State Apprenticeship and Training
			 Council, the Office, and the local joint committees in providing the necessary
			 related training courses to meet the objectives of courses of study as
			 identified in ORS 660.157(1) for
			 registered apprentices and trainees. The coordination of related training
			 offered in these courses with job instruction, and the carrying out of the
			 other details will be the responsibility of the community college. (ORS
			 660.160)
(2) For each occupation and industry, the
			 State Apprenticeship and Training Council shall review and approve courses of
			 study for apprentices, based on current occupational analyses, that meet the
			 training needs of each local joint committee and that shall be available to all
			 registered apprentices.
(3) Local
			 joint committees, in cooperation with the community college, shall have the
			 responsibility for determining the training needs of the apprentices indentured
			 by the committees subject to the training objectives adopted for the particular
			 occupation or industry.
(4)
			 Community college apprenticeship related training will be based on the course
			 of study for apprentices and trainees approved by the State Apprenticeship and
			 Training Council.
(5) Community
			 colleges will collaborate with the local joint committee to develop and
			 implement apprenticeship related training courses to satisfy the related
			 training requirements of apprentices within the limits of the available
			 resources and facilities of the community college.
(6) Community colleges will collaborate with
			 local joint committees to identify the apprentice training requirements that
			 can be met by existing community college courses.
(7) Community colleges identified on the
			 Annual List of Community College Related Training Providers will provide
			 apprenticeship related training courses to registered apprentices when regional
			 accreditation and Commission standards and requirements have been met. These
			 standards and requirements include direct control by the community college
			 relating to the approval of the curriculum and instruction, evaluation of the
			 curricula, hiring or direct approval of instructors, evaluation of instructors
			 and approval of the instructional setting.
(8) Community colleges will have sole
			 responsibility for determining and providing academic credit for apprenticeship
			 related training offered by the community college.
(9) The local joint committees will have
			 responsibility for granting apprenticeship credit for training and education
			 received in community college apprenticeship related training and other course
			 work.
(10) Apprenticeship related
			 training courses offered by community colleges will meet the same instructional
			 standards and procedures as for other occupational supplementary and/or
			 occupational preparatory courses offered by the community college.
(11) Apprenticeship related training courses
			 offered by community colleges will follow the same contact hour to academic
			 credit ratio as other academic credit courses offered by the community college.
			 The ratio will include a consistent differentiation for instructional delivery
			 provided through lecture, laboratory and lecture/laboratory as defined by state
			 and local community college guidelines.
(12) Contact hours of apprenticeship related
			 training offered by community colleges will be consistent with the hours of
			 related training as approved by the State Apprenticeship and Training Council
			 for the specific apprenticeship.
(13) Apprenticeship related training offered
			 by the community colleges for apprentices may be offered as credit or
			 non-credit courses at the discretion of the community college.
(14) Community colleges will transcript the
			 credit for all apprenticeship related training courses completed by apprentices
			 for academic credit. Non-credit apprenticeship related training course
			 transcription is at the discretion of the college.
(15) Effective July 1, 2003, and thereafter,
			 apprenticeship on-the-job (OJT) training paid in whole or in part by any person
			 or entity employing the services of a registered apprentice shall not be
			 considered by the community college or the Office as cooperative work
			 experience or related training for the registered apprentice.
(16) Effective July 1, 2003, and thereafter,
			 state FTE reimbursement will not be provided for on-the-job training for
			 registered apprentices that are paid in whole or in part by any person or
			 entity employing the services of a registered apprentice.
(17) Skill and knowledge gained by registered
			 apprentices and journey persons through on-the-job training may be considered
			 as nonreimbursable credit for prior learning and/or credit for prior
			 certification, according to the policies and procedures of a community college.
(18) Effective July 1, 2003, and
			 thereafter, cooperative work experience (CWE) and similar work-based learning
			 courses may continue to be included in certificate of completion and/or
			 associate degree programs for registered apprentices and journey persons,
			 however credits transcripted by the college shall be only for credit for prior
			 learning or credit for prior certification.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
				  351.735 &
				  341.290
Stats. Implemented: ORS,
				  341.665,
				  660.157,
				  660.160,
				  660.167 &
				  660.190