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Dual Credit

KANSAS ALLIANCE FOR CONCURRENT ENROLLMENT PARTNERSHIPS (KsACEP)


Through Kansas’s participation in the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) Midwestern Dual Enrollment State Policy Workshop in 2025, KBOR's Dual Credit Steering Committee brought together Kansas stakeholders to develop a state action plan focused on expanding access, affordability, quality, and alignment in dual credit programs. A key outcome of this work was the establishment of the Kansas chapter of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (KsACEP). 


KsACEP provides a dedicated statewide structure for professional collaboration, capacity building, professional development, and quality assurance related to concurrent enrollment partnerships between high schools and postsecondary institutions.  As this new structure developed in 2025, it became clear that maintaining both KsACEP and the KBOR Dual Credit Steering Committee could create duplication, confusion about roles, and fragmented communication. Academic Affairs therefore phased out the KBOR Dual Credit Steering Committee and continues to support dual credit work through KsACEP. 


Key focus areas include: 

  • Disseminating the standards of quality concurrent enrollment programs 
  • Providing professional development to all interested parties concerning quality concurrent enrollment programs, including discussions for best practices and challenges 
  • Advocating for flexible graduate programs that enable interested teachers to obtain concurrent enrollment credentialing 
  • Serving as a state advocate for concurrent enrollment 
    Fostering strong partnerships between postsecondary and secondary institutions  

Membership is open to any institution or individual involved with concurrent enrollment partnerships who submit a membership application.

 

Board Officers

President: Dr. Karah Kellogg (Neosho County Community College) 

Vice President: Jena Roth (WSU Tech) 

Secretary/Treasurer: Kim Dhority (Flint Hills Technical College) 

Institutional Representatives

Two-Year College Representatives 

Dr. Loni Leutner (Butler Community College) 

Laura Rosales (Seward County Community College) 

Secondary Institution Representatives

Mardy Moree (Campus High School) 

Kelynn Heardt (Pittsburg Community Schools) 

Four-Year Institution Representative 

TBD



Upcoming Events
The KsACEP Summit will be held on Nov. 12th, 2026 from 10:00am-3:00pm at Hutchinson Community College’s McPherson Center. Register today!  

 

 

Dual Credit Cooperative Agreements

The Kansas Challenge to Secondary School Students Act, K.S.A. 72-3220 through 72-3224, (Challenge Act) provides a means for school districts, in cooperation with eligible postsecondary institutions, to challenge high school students by procuring early college opportunities. The Kansas Board of Regents encourages all system postsecondary institutions to collaborate with local school districts and provide dual credit opportunities to high school students through cooperative agreements entered pursuant to the Challenge Act. The Challenge Act does not mandate system postsecondary institutions to offer dual credit enrollment to students in local school districts. However, if an eligible system postsecondary institution chooses not to offer dual credit enrollment with local districts pursuant to the Challenge Act, in accordance with Board policy for Off-Campus Delivery of Academic Courses and Programs, the home institution shall allow eligible system postsecondary institutions outside the institution’s service area to provide the Challenge Act opportunities with those school districts. The Challenge Act requires academic credit granted for courses successfully completed by high school students to qualify as both high school and college credit, which is defined as dual credit by the Higher Learning Commission.  Board policy requires a dual credit cooperative agreement for all dual credit courses.

“Dual Credit Cooperative Agreement” means a written memorandum of understanding between an eligible postsecondary institution and a school district entered pursuant to the Kansas Challenge to Secondary School Students Act for the purpose of offering dual credit courses to eligible students who receive both high school credit and college credit.

“Dual Credit Courses” as defined by the Higher Learning Commission are courses taught to high school students for which the students receive both high school and college credit and involve the accredited institution’s responsibility for the quality of its offerings.

 Policies are found in Chapter III, Section A of the Policy Manual.

 

sample Dual Credit cooperative agreement

 

FAQ AND TERM DEFINITIONS

“Dual Credit Courses” as defined by the Higher Learning Commission are courses taught to high school students for which the students receive both high school and college credit and involve the accredited institution’s responsibility for the quality of its offerings. 

“Dual credit enrollment” is a subset of dual credit and means enrollment of high school students in dual credit courses, pursuant to a dual credit cooperative agreement. Courses are taught by a postsecondary educational institution faculty member in which students receive both high school credit and college credit for completing the course.

“Concurrent enrollment” is a subset of dual credit and means enrollment of high school students in dual credit courses, pursuant to a dual credit cooperative agreement. Courses are taught by high school teachers during the regular high school day in which students receive both high school credit and college credit for completing the course.

“Dual enrollment” means enrollment of high school students in college courses outside a cooperative agreement between the district and postsecondary institution entered pursuant to the Kansas Challenge to Secondary School Students Act, in which a transcript is issued for credit from the institution without regard to high school credit. All modes of delivery of academic offerings and all campus locations are appropriate for dual enrollment courses including main campus, additional locations, and distance delivery.

 “Student” means:
(1) is enrolled in grades 10, 11, or 12 maintained by a school district, or a gifted child who is enrolled in any of the grades 9 through 12 maintained by a school district;
(2) has an individualized plan of study or an individualized education program;
(3) has demonstrated the ability to benefit from participation in the regular curricula of eligible postsecondary institutions;
(4) has been authorized by the principal of the school attended to apply for enrollment at an eligible postsecondary educational institution; 
and (5) is acceptable or has been accepted for enrollment at an eligible postsecondary educational institution as a degree-seeking or non-degree seeking student.