260C.1 - STATEMENT OF POLICY.
260C.1 STATEMENT OF POLICY.
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of Iowa and
the purpose of this chapter to provide for the establishment of not
more than fifteen areas which shall include all of the area of the
state and which may operate community colleges offering to the
greatest extent possible, educational opportunities and services in
each of the following, when applicable, but not necessarily limited
to:
1. The first two years of college work including preprofessional
education.
2. Vocational and technical training.
3. Programs for in-service training and retraining of workers.
4. Programs for high school completion for students of post-high
school age.
5. Programs for all students of high school age who may best
serve themselves by enrolling for vocational and technical training
while also enrolled in a local high school, public or private.
6. Programs for students of high school age to provide advanced
college placement courses not taught at a student's high school while
the student is also enrolled in the high school.
7. Student personnel services.
8. Community services.
9. Vocational education for persons who have academic,
socioeconomic, or other disabilities which prevent succeeding in
regular vocational education programs.
10. Training, retraining, and all necessary preparation for
productive employment of all citizens.
11. Vocational and technical training for persons who are not
enrolled in a high school and who have not completed high school.
12. Developmental education for persons who are academically or
personally underprepared to succeed in their program of study. Section History: Early Form
[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 280A.1] Section History: Recent Form
85 Acts, ch 212, §11; 90 Acts, ch 1253, § 26
C93, § 260C.1
93 Acts, ch 101, § 203; 96 Acts, ch 1129, § 113
Referred to in § 260C.18A Footnotes
Application of community college course credits to degree programs
at state universities; credit transfer and articulation website; 2007
Acts, ch 215, §55