Title 30, Education and Culture

Upon approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, a community college may be established by a community college district in which all the requirements for formation of the district are met and for which adequate building space, library and suitable laboratory or shop…

The official name of every community college shall include the words “community college.” [1965 c.19 §1; 1971 c.513 §88]

(1)(a) Subject to the requirements of subsection (2) of this section, the name of any community college district or community college may be changed by resolution of the district board of education. The district board shall submit the proposed name change to the Higher Education …

(1) A community college district may contract with another community college district, a common or union high school district, an education service district, a public university listed in ORS 352.002, the Oregon Health and Science University, a private educational institution acc…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the Department of Corrections may enter into agreements to offer academic programs to adults in custody with: (a) An academic program at any community college operated under t…

If a community college offers a program of instruction in aviation maintenance that takes place in a neighboring state at an airport owned and operated pursuant to an agreement between a city in this state and a county in the neighboring state, course work by students in the prog…

(1) At the beginning of each school year, the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall make the following information available for distribution to public school students who are in grades 11 and 12: (a) The academic programs and services provided by community…

Every community college district shall encourage high school students to start early on a college education by: (1) Implementing a dual credit program, a two-plus-two program or another accelerated college credit program and making at least one such program available to each inte…

(1) A community college may give credit for courses or programs taken in a career school. The courses or programs for which credit may be given must meet the standards adopted by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission under ORS 345.325, must be taken at a career school domi…

A community college offering a traffic safety education course under ORS 336.795 to 336.815 shall give no credit for completion thereof and time spent by students on such courses shall not be considered as clock hours of instruction in determining full-time equivalency for purpos…

If a board of education of a community college determines that enrollment is sufficient to make an American Sign Language class economically viable and if qualified instructors are available, the board may offer to students courses for credit in American Sign Language. Such cours…

(1) The board of a district operating a community college, upon approval of the Higher Education Coordinating Commission, may award certificates and associate degrees indicating satisfactory completion of a course of study offered by the community college. (2)(a) The board of a d…

(1) As used in this section, “mandatory student-initiated fee” means a fee that: (a) Is initiated by the recognized student government of the community college; (b) Students are required to pay in addition to tuition fees; (c) Is collected by the board of the community college; a…

A community college district may establish a student loan fund and apply to and receive from the federal government such grants or loans as may be available for such loans. [Formerly 341.815]

(1) In addition to any other scholarships provided by law, the board may award tuition and fee-exempting scholarships in the college to students applying for enrollment or who are enrolled in the college. (2) Scholarships shall be awarded on the basis of the student’s: (a) Demons…

(1) A district shall admit high school graduates who are residents of Oregon and may admit other residents who, in the judgment of the administration of the district, are capable of profiting from the instruction offered in a specific course or program without regard to age. In t…

(1) In the event of an agreement between two colleges to admit each other’s students, if the student seeking admission to the community college resides within that college’s district, no additional reimbursement shall be required from any college district. However, if the student…

(1) Community colleges in Oregon shall admit students from other states at the same tuition rate assessed against Oregon residents who are residents of the community college district if: (a) The state in which the student resides agrees to pay and pays its per capita state aid fo…

(1) The provisions of ORS 341.487 shall not apply to admissions arranged under ORS 350.750. (2) For purposes of ORS 341.626, and notwithstanding ORS 341.487, students who are residents of Idaho, Washington, California and Nevada and students admitted pursuant to ORS 350.750 shall…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Active member of the Armed Forces of the United States” includes officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States who: (A) Reside in this state while assigned to duty at any base, station, shore establishment or other faci…

(1) A student at a community college who is a member of the military, a member of the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or a member of the Public Health Service of the United States Department of Health and Human Services detailed by proper…

(1)(a) The amount of the credit specified in ORS 341.499 (1)(b) shall be based on: (A) The amount of room and board paid by the student for a term that the student does not complete because the student is ordered to active duty; and (B) The amount of tuition and fees paid by the …

(1) The board of education of each community college district, in consultation with the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, shall develop standards for the community college of the district to implement to give credit for education and training obtained by a person while the person …

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Child” means a child, adopted child or stepchild of a service member. (b) “Community college” has the meaning given that term in ORS 341.005. (c) “Qualified student” means a child, a spouse or an unremarried surviving spouse of a service member. …

(1) The board of education of a community college district shall direct each community college under its control to waive tuition for any course audited by an Oregon resident 65 years of age or older if: (a) Space is available in the course for additional students to register aft…

(1) The Office of Student Access and Completion shall administer the Oregon Promise program as provided by this section. (2) Subject to subsections (7) to (10) of this section, the office shall provide a grant for community college courses to a person who meets the criteria descr…

(1) The Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and the Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall jointly establish a grant program for the purpose of distributing moneys to community colleges, or any foundations of community colleges, to increase the number o…

(1) Community college faculty are not required to have teaching licenses. (2) Notwithstanding ORS 342.173, community college faculty who provide instruction in cooperation with a school district for academic, career and technical education, school-to-work or other work-related pr…

Each community college shall consider and maintain affirmative action plans and goals when reductions in faculty and staff are required as a result of: (1) Reductions in revenue that necessitate discontinuance of its educational program at its anticipated level; (2) Elimination o…

(1) Each community college board shall give an individual, written notice of reasonable assurance of continued employment to all employees who are to perform services in the same or a similar capacity during a subsequent academic year or term or in the period immediately followin…

(1) Notwithstanding any provision of ORS chapter 238 or 238A, the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development may establish and administer an optional retirement plan for administrative employees of community college districts who are eligible for membership in the Pub…

(1) The board of a community college may authorize receipt of compensation for any faculty member from private or public resources, including, but not limited to, income from: (a) Consulting; (b) Appearances and speeches; (c) Intellectual property conceived, reduced to practice o…

(1) The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall constitute the boundary board for making any changes in the boundaries of community college districts. The commission on its own motion or on petition from a petitioning territory may propose changes in the boundaries of a co…

(1) The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall submit the question of a proposed boundary change to a vote if: (a) The commission enters the order to revise the boundaries of a community college district; (b) A remonstrance is filed with the commission within 20 days afte…

(1) When changes in district boundaries are made by the detachment of territory or an annexation of territory and another community college district is affected, the boards of the districts shall make an equitable division of the then existing assets and liabilities between the d…

(1) When territory is annexed to or merged with a community college district, the new territory shall become liable for its share of the existing debt of the community college district. (2) When territory is detached from a community college district, the detached territory shall…

Except as provided in ORS 255.400 to 255.424: (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, when the new territory annexed to an existing community college district is greater in population than the original territory, based upon the latest federal census, the provisio…

(1) The Higher Education Coordinating Commission shall submit the question of any boundary change pertaining to a community college district subject to ORS 341.577 to a vote of the electors held the same day in both the original territory and the new territory. (2) If the propose…

As used in ORS 341.604 to 341.618: (1) “District” means the: (a) Blue Mountain Community College District, a political subdivision and municipal corporation of the state organized pursuant to this chapter; (b) Columbia Gorge Community College District, a political subdivision and…

(1) The Blue Mountain Community College District and the Rogue Community College District may expand as provided by this section. (2) If expansion of the Blue Mountain Community College District or the Rogue Community College District is approved by the voters, the Legislative As…

(1) Subject to restrictions in the Oregon Constitution and subsection (2) of this section, any of the methods of financing authorized under this chapter or any other provision of law that is available to community college districts organized pursuant to this chapter may, in the d…

(1) An election shall be held to determine if a district may contract a bonded indebtedness for the benefit of the district or a service area or combination of service areas of the district. (2) If the bonded indebtedness is for the benefit of the district, all district voters re…

(1) Following authorization from the voters of a district or a service area or combination of service areas of the district, the district board may contract a bonded indebtedness to be paid by a tax levy on the taxable property within the district or the service area or service a…

(1) The district board shall ascertain and levy annually, in addition to all other taxes, a direct ad valorem tax on all the taxable property within the district if the district approved bonded indebtedness or within the affected service area or combination of service areas if th…

Except to the extent that they are inconsistent with the provisions of ORS 341.604 to 341.618 or rules adopted thereunder, the provisions of ORS 341.675 to 341.715 shall apply to bonds authorized pursuant to ORS 341.604 to 341.618 and to taxes levied to pay such bonds. [1995 c.35…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 341.575, when territory is annexed to the Blue Mountain Community College District, the new territory shall not become liable for any existing debt of the Blue Mountain Community College District that resulted from the bond measure that was approved by the…

There is established a Community College Support Fund in the General Fund. [Derived from 1991 c.162 §1; 1995 c.67 §27]

(1) Subject to rules adopted by the Higher Education Coordinating Commission and to ORS 291.232 to 291.260, the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development shall distribute state aid to each community college district and community college service distr…

(1) In determining the amount of apportionment to the community college from the General Fund under ORS 341.626, tuition and fees allowed for scholarships authorized by ORS 341.478 shall be considered as paid by the student. (2) The district shall include the high school student …

(1) As used in this section, “approved expenses” means the operating expenses of community college districts for career and technical education programs that have been approved by the Director of the Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development. (2) Federal moneys recei…