SREB data on dual enrollment students

I just received in the mail, a fact book bulletin from Southern Regional Education Board, known affectionately by education gurus as SREB. That organization keeps track of education, K-12 and higher ed, in southern states.

The bulletin was about the increase in dual credit or enrollment students. In Louisiana, it's called Early Start. It's all the same name for the same thing, high school students taking college credit.

According to the information, students are taking college credit in two year universities and technical colleges. In states such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, the percentage of high school students taking undergraduate credit and contact hours taken in public two year colleges is 5 percent.

In the Shreveport-Bossier City area, dual enrollment is big business, especially out at LSUS. Although the school is on Spring Break this week, the last figures I saw for them was that nearly 500 students were signed up for their dual enrollment offerings.

BPCC and SUSLA also offer dual enrollment.

The state pays for dual enrollment, so that they don't have to pay tuition. However, these students are counted as part of the over all enrollment of the school.

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