R506, Inventory of Budget Related and Self Supporting Courses

R506-1. Purpose
    To provide guidance to the categorization of courses as budget-related or self-supporting for state funding purposes.
R506-2. References R506-3. Utah System of Higher Education Course Inventory
    3.1. Supervised Instruction - For courses to be included in the USHE Course Inventory, instruction must occur and the institution must supervise the instruction.

    3.2. Separate Designation for Credit and Not for Credit Courses - Whenever a specific course offering can be taken either for credit or not for credit, the different registration categories are to be provided by separate section numbers scheduled at the same time and location.

R506-4. Budget-Related Courses for State Funding Purposes
    4.1. Budget-Related Regular (BA) - (course must meet all of the following criteria)
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Course is not offered at a high school site, or is offered at a high school site but is not a concurrent enrollment course.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is taught in Utah or through study abroad.
      • Course section is part of regular curriculum and is taught on a full-term basis or equivalent to a full-term basis or until a defined competency is achieved.
      • Course level is 100 or above (non-remedial)


    4.1.1.  #AND# (course must also meet all points of one of the following two sets of criteria)
     

      • Course section is offered to the general public not primarily intended for members of particular groups (i.e. companies, school district courses for teachers, in-service training).
      • Course is not a correspondence course.
      • Course is not for concurrent enrollment students (i.e. for secondary students concurrently receiving college credit and high school credit).
    4.1.2.  #OR#
       
      • Course section is not offered to the general public and is primarily intended for members of particular groups (i.e. companies, school district courses for teachers, in-service training).
      • Course was not developed specifically for a particular business or organization.
      • Course enrollees are not predominantly non-matriculated employees of the institution.
    4.2.  Budget-Related Concurrent Enrollment (BC) - (course must meet one of the following sets of criteria)

    4.2.1.  Offered at high school site via technology
     

      • Course is for credit.
      • Course is offered at a high school site.
      • Course is a concurrent enrollment course (i.e. for secondary students concurrently receiving college credit and high school credit).
      • Course is delivered via technology.
    4.2.2.  #OR# - Not offered at high school site
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Course is not offered at a high school site.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is taught in Utah or through study abroad.
      • Course section is part of regular curriculum and is taught on a full-term basis or equivalent to a full-term basis or until a defined competency is achieved.
      • Course level is 100 or above (non-remedial).
      • Course is not a correspondence course.
      • Course is for concurrent students.
    4.3.  Budget-Related Remedial (BU) - (course must meet all of the following criteria)
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Course is not offered at a high school site, or is offered at a high school site but is not a concurrent enrollment course.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is taught in Utah or through study abroad.
      • Course section is part of regular curriculum and is taught on a full-term basis or equivalent to a full-term basis or until a defined competency is achieved.
      • Course level is below 100.
      • Course is taught by WSU, Snow, Dixie, CEU, UVSC, or SLCC or by USU at its branch campuses or continuing education centers after a community college chooses not to exercise its right of first refusal to offer a remedial class.
    4.4.  Budget-Related STIT (BV) - (course must meet all of the following criteria)
     
      • Course is not for credit.
      • Course is vocational or pre-requisite to a vocational program (i.e. remedial).
      • Course is a short-term intensive training course funded with state STIT appropriations.
    4.5.  Budget-Related Non Credit ATE (BY) - (course must meet all of the following criteria)
     
      • Course is not for credit.
      • Course is vocational or pre-requisite to a vocational program (i.e. remedial).
      • Course is not a short-term intensive training course funded with state STIT appropriations.
      • Course is not funded by ATCSR funding (i.e. appropriation made to either public education or higher education funneled to the institution to support ATC-type training programs in areas of the state without freestanding ATC's).
      • Course is not funded by Custom Fit funding (i.e. appropriation made to public education funneled to the institution to support company-specific vocational training programs).
      • Course is creditable towards a Board approved degree/award program or is a pre-requisite to such program.
R506-5.  Self-Supporting Courses for State Funding Purposes
    5.1.  Self-Supporting Regular (SD) - (course must meet all points of any one of the following sets of criteria)

    5.1.1.  Not for credit - Not vocational or vocational pre-requisite
     

      • Course is not for credit.
      • Course is not vocational or pre-requisite to a vocational program (i.e. remedial).
    5.1.2.  #OR# - Not creditable towards a Board approved degree/award program
     
      • Course is not for credit.
      • Course is vocational or pre-requisite to a vocational program (i.e. remedial).
      • Course is not a short-term intensive training course funded with state STIT appropriations.
      • Course is not funded by ATCSR funding.
      • Course is not funded by Custom Fit funding.
      • Course is not creditable towards a Board approved degree/award program or is a pre-requisite to such program.
    5.1.3.  #OR# - For credit - Board approved tuition not assessed
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Board approved tuition is not assessed.
    5.1.4.  #OR# - Instructor costs not paid by institutional funds
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are not paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
    5.1.5.  #OR# - Not taught in Utah or through study abroad
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is not taught in Utah or through study abroad.
    5.1.6.  #OR# - Not part of regular curriculum - not taught on a full-term basis
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is taught in Utah or through study abroad.
      • Course section is not part of regular curriculum or is not taught on a full-term basis or equivalent to a full-term basis or until a defined competency is achieved.
    5.1.7.  #OR# - Not offered to general public
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is taught in Utah or through study abroad.
      • Course section is part of regular curriculum and is taught on a full-term basis or equivalent to a full-term basis or until a defined competency is achieved.
      • Course level is 100 or above (non-remedial)
      • Course section is not offered to the general public and is primarily intended for members of particular groups (i.e. companies, school district courses for teachers, in-service training).
      • Course was developed specifically for a particular business or organization.
    5.1.8.  #OR# - In-service training for institutional employees
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is taught in Utah or through study abroad.
      • Course section is part of regular curriculum and is taught on a full-term basis or equivalent to a full-term basis or until a defined competency is achieved.
      • Course level is 100 or above (non-remedial)
      • Course section is not offered to the general public and is primarily intended for members of particular groups (i.e. companies, school district courses for teachers, in-service training).
      • Course was not developed specifically for a particular business or organization.
      • Course enrollees are predominantly non-matriculated employees of the institution.
    5.1.9.  #OR# - Correspondence study
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is taught in Utah or through study abroad.
      • Course section is part of regular curriculum and is taught on a full-term basis or equivalent to a full-term basis or until a defined competency is achieved.
      • Course level is 100 or above (non-remedial)
      • Course section is offered to the general public not primarily intended for members of particular groups (i.e. companies, school district courses for teachers, in-service training).
      • Course is a correspondence course.
       
    5.2.  Self-Supporting Concurrent Enrollment (SF) - (course must meet all of the following criteria)
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Course offered at a high school site.
      • Course is a concurrent enrollment course (i.e. for secondary students concurrently receiving college credit and high school credit).
      • Course is not delivered via technology.
    5.3.  Self-Supporting Remedial (SM) - (course must meet all of the following criteria)
     
      • Course is for credit.
      • Course is not offered at a high school site, or is offered at a high school site but is not a concurrent enrollment course.
      • Board approved tuition is assessed.
      • All instructor costs of the course are paid for by institutional funds (e.g. external funds have not been received or ear-marked to pay instructor costs).
      • Course is taught in Utah or through study abroad.
      • Course section is part of regular curriculum and is taught on a full-term basis or equivalent to a full-term basis or until a defined competency is achieved.
      • Course level is below 100.
      • Course is taught by one of the following institutions: UU, USU (unless it is considered budget related under 4.3), or SUU.
    5.4.  Self-Supporting ATCSR (SP) - (course must meet all of the following criteria)
     
      • Course is non-credit.
      • Course is vocational or pre-requisite to a vocational program (i.e. remedial).
      • Course is funded by ATCSR funding (i.e. appropriation made to either public education or higher education funneled to the institution to support ATC-type training programs in areas of the state without freestanding ATC's).
    5.5.  Self-Supporting Custom Fit (SQ) - (course must meet all the following criteria)
     
      • Course is non credit.
      • Course is vocational or pre-requisite to a vocational program (i.e. remedial).
      • Course funded by Custom Fit funding (i.e. appropriation made to public education funneled to the institution to support company-specific vocational training programs).

(Approved September 12, 1997, revised August 7, 1998, amended April 20, 2001, March 14, 2002, March 10, 2006 and October 26, 2006.)