N.J. Admin. Code § 9A:11-4.8

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 16, August 19, 2024

Section 9A:11-4.8 - Eligible program support components

(a) The campus program shall supplement, but not supplant, services already available to the general student population.

(b) Each participating institution shall structure activities that provide educational enrichment for EOF students, improve their academic performance, promote their retention and progress toward graduation, and acknowledge their academic success and leadership development within the period of program eligibility and the institution's academic standards. These activities shall include, but are not limited to:

1. Skills assessments: Each institution shall assess EOF students' basic skills needs, learning styles, computer literacy, and ongoing academic performance;

2. Remedial developmental instruction: Each institution shall provide remedial, ESL, and developmental programs designed to remedy academic deficiencies;

3. Monitoring student academic progress: Each institution shall monitor EOF students' academic progress and inform them of their standing in a timely fashion;

4. EOF advisement/counseling: Each campus program shall provide advisement/counseling designed to address student learning, cognitive development, and mental health support. This shall include helping students explore their educational, career, and personal goals, assisting them with enrolling in appropriate courses for their desired degree program, and providing the appropriate cognitive and mental health support;

5. Academic Support Services: Each institution shall provide well-defined programs of academic support services to include, but not be limited to, supplemental instruction, tutoring, and study supervision to help EOF students resolve learning difficulties. These programs may include peer learning groups and specially adapted versions of courses that are prerequisites to majors;

6. Services for limited-English-proficient EOF students: Each institution that enrolls such students in their EOF program shall provide developmental, counseling, and support services to enhance and strengthen these students' academic performance;

7. Preparation for community college EOF students to transfer to senior institutions: Each institution shall develop initiatives to promote EOF student transfer from county to senior institutions;

8. Preparation for careers, graduate, and professional education: Each institution shall provide programs designed to prepare EOF undergraduates for professional careers and/or enrollment in graduate/professional school. Campus EOF staff working with the institutional placement office and academic departments shall coordinate these services, which shall include career interest testing, resume preparation, and job search and interview techniques, as well as programs to nurture student interest in graduate and professional education. Such programs may include assistance with the application process for undergraduate research experience programs, graduate/professional school test preparation, graduate and professional school application process, grants, scholarships, fellowships, and other forms of financial assistance;

9. Student leadership development: Each institution shall provide programs designed to foster culture, diversity, racial harmony, civic engagement, social responsibility, and the improvement of human relations. The program design may include developing conflict resolution and empowerment skills, as well as an understanding of the responsibilities leaders must assume;

10. Orientation: Each institution shall annually inform students in writing of its policies and procedures for participation in its EOF program and for continued receipt of academic and financial aid support; and

11. Each institution shall provide any other support services deemed necessary by the institution to ensure student success.

(c) The combination of all services listed in (b) above should facilitate and promote the academic success of students and develop knowledge and skills commensurate with those of the regular student population. The institution, in cooperation with the campus EOF administrator/director, shall establish minimum standards for the campus program and develop processes to evaluate the effectiveness of each program component.

N.J. Admin. Code § 9A:11-4.8

Amended by 48 N.J.R. 2356(a), effective 11/7/2016

Amended by 49 N.J.R. 2796(b), effective 8/21/2017

Amended by 55 N.J.R. 2341(a), effective 11/20/2023