Creating an Office of Dual Enrollment

Dual enrollment is defined as a high school student taking college courses for college and/or high school credit. Over the past few years, the growth of dual enrollment has exploded in community colleges, not only within Michigan, but nationally as well. This has left community colleges struggling to keep up with fulfilling the demand for their coursework by high school students.
This product dissertation creates an Office of Dual Enrollment at Mid Michigan Community College (MMCC), a college located in rural central Michigan that serves approximately 4,000 students on its two campuses. This dissertation examines the historical trends related to dual enrollment, issues and challenges faced specifically by MMCC as it responds to K-12 school systems and their students and provides an approach the college might take to include an Office of Dual Enrollment.
Included in this dissertation are recommendations for placement within the college’s structure, personnel/job descriptions, budget, an approach for handling dramatic fluctuations in the number of dual enrolled students, a process for assessing objectives and outcomes associated with the Office, and an implementation process. Finally, this dissertation contains numerous appendices related to dual enrollment processing of students in Michigan.