What is Huskins?

"The purpose of Huskins Bill cooperative programs is to make available for the enrichment of high school students, college level academic, technical and advanced vocational courses not otherwise available to them."*

Stipulations for Huskins courses:

• High school students must be in grades 9-12.

• Huskins courses are scheduled for the primary purpose of enrolling high school students.

• Students must meet the same prerequisite, co-requisite, and course admission requirements as adult college students, including appropriate scores on the college placement test for those courses that require it.

• Students must be recommended by the principal of the high school for enrollment in Huskins courses.

• College tuition is waived.

• Students are responsibility for the cost of the textbook, college student fees (normally less than $20 per semester), and any supplies for the Huskins course(s).

• Huskins students will follow the calendar determined by the provider of the course(s).  This calendar may vary from Burke County Public Schools' calendar.

• Courses must be curriculum courses, numbered 100 and above in the Combined Course Library.

• Courses with the following prefixes may not be offered as Huskins:

  • COE--Cooperative Education

  • SEL--Selected Topics

  • SEM--Seminar Topics

• Developmental courses shall not be offered as Huskins courses.

• Courses shall not supplant any high school courses.

• All Huskins courses shall be the same academic rigor as those delivered to adult college students using college level textbooks and college level course material.

• College credit shall be awarded to high school students upon successful completion of courses.  The student is beginning his/her college transcript.

• Huskins students must abide by the college's disability eligibility standards for the college.

• If high school students meet the curriculum program admission requirements set forth by the local community college and successfully complete the program; they may be awarded a certificate, diploma, or degree.

• Per the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement (CAA), upon admission to another public two-year institution or to a public university, a community college student, who has enrolled in a community college course and who satisfactorily completed the course with a grade of "C" or better in the courses that are designated for college transfer, will receive credit for those courses.  The receiving institution will determine whether the course will count as general education, major, or elective credit.  (Please review The Core 44 section for additional college transfer information.)

• Please review the chart to determine the number of high school credits earned per college credit hour for Burke County Public Schools' students.

Special Note:  On August 3, 2009, the North Carolina General Assembly made changes to the Dual Enrollment/Huskins bill.  The bill "eliminated funding for the general education (excluding math, science, and technology), physical education, and college success skills courses offered to high school students through the dual enrollment and Huskins programs."

*Source:  Operating Procedures for the Enrollment of High School Students in Community College Courses, 2008

NOTE:  College course credit began counting in both Rank and GPA with the 2010-2011 school year.