Sec. 130.0095. BLOCK SCHEDULING FOR CERTAIN ASSOCIATE DEGREE OR CERTIFICATE PROGRAM. (a) To facilitate timely degree completion by students at public junior colleges, from among the allied health, nursing, and career and technology associate degree or certificate programs offered by a public junior college, the college shall establish, for at least five of those programs not previously offered as a block schedule curriculum, a block schedule curriculum under which:
(1) courses required for a student's enrollment in the program as a full-time student are offered each semester in scheduled blocks, such as a morning, full-day, afternoon, evening, or weekend block schedule, designed to provide scheduling predictability from semester to semester to students enrolled in the program; and
(2) students may enroll in an entire block schedule curriculum offered under the program in a semester, rather than enrolling in individual courses leading toward the degree or certificate.
(b) Each public junior college shall publish in advance of each semester the available block schedule curricula for each associate degree or certificate program described by Subsection (a) offered by the college for that semester.
(c) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in consultation with public junior colleges, shall adopt rules as necessary for the administration of this section, including rules prescribing a process by which a public junior college may petition the coordinating board for an exception to the number of programs for which a block schedule curriculum is required by Subsection (a) on demonstration of hardship.
(d) Not later than November 1, 2018, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall submit to the governor and legislature a detailed report on the effectiveness of block scheduling under this section and any related recommendations for legislative or other action.
(e) This section expires August 1, 2019.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 317 (H.B. 1583), Sec. 1, eff. June 3, 2015.
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