Next year's sophomores in Taylor School District high schools will be afforded the opportunity to take college courses and earn credits through a new and unique partnership between the TSD and the Wayne County Community College District. This partnership amounts to a virtually free "one-year college scholarship" for interested TSD students and families.
Taylor students will receive the chance to take eight specific college courses, starting in the Fall 2013. These courses will take place at WCCC, but will be paid for by the Taylor schools. The financial obligation to the student's family will be only the cost of textbooks, while the TSD pays for classes and fees.
For each student, this amounts to a savings of $368 per class or $2,944 for the entire eight-class program that lasts two years.
Under the agreement, participating students would take two college courses each semester at WCCC following their third hour at the high school. They would eat lunch at their high school before being bussed over to the WCCC Downriver campus on Northline Road. The TSD would provide the bus transportation to the campus, but families would be responsible for providing their own transportation home from the college.
The normal day would include three morning high school classes, lunch at the high school, the college courses and dismissal around 2:30 p.m.
The college course would apply to the student's high school transcript and be counted toward high school graduation.
The credits will apply to approximately 70 colleges and universities in Michigan including the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint), MSU, CMU, EMU, WMU, Grand Valley and Oakland.
Courses required are (in order) Fundamentals of Speech (SPH 101), English I (ENG 119), Introductory Psychology (PSY 101), American Government (101), Introduction to Sociology (SOC 100), English I (ENG 120), Introduction to Visual Arts (HUM 101) and Introductory Biology (BIO 155). All are three-credit classes expect biology, which counts for four credits.
In essence, completing these courses counts as a one-year scholarship. The successful student will graduate from TSD with 25 college credits and enter the community college, college or university of their choice with sophomore status.
This program will save Taylor families a substantial amount of money.
One of the best features of the program, according to TSD officials, will be that participating students will be taking the WCCC courses with their high school peers. They will not be mixed with regular college students because of their dual enrollment status. They will move from class to class together as a group.
Students need to apply for this program. Applications will be available following a parents' meeting Wednesday, April 24, in the Ray Mix Building of the WCCC's Downriver campus.
Kennedy students and parents are scheduled at 6:30 p.m. with Truman students and parents scheduled at 7:30 p.m.
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