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MISSISSIPPI COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARD
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES MANUAL
Section 9: Programs
Title:
Standard For Non-Duplication of Upper-Level
Programs
Initial Date of Adoption:
August 18, 2000
Reference:
Revision Date:
Code Number:
9.14.3
Page:
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STANDARD FOR NON-DUPLICATION OF UPPER-LEVEL PROGRAMS
The Mississippi Community College Board (MCCB) finds and declares, as a matter of public policy, that the public community
and junior colleges have an obligation and opportunity to construct, implement and operate needed programs in the field of
higher education by working cooperatively with the Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning and the eight
state public universities. This cooperative opportunity is a function of the MCCB’s duty to avoid unnecessary duplication of
higher education programs and services and to assure that the community and junior colleges in no way usurp the responsibilities
and prerogatives of the state’s public universities. With this public policy in mind, the MCCB adopts the following Standard,
effective immediately:
No public community or junior college may enter any agreement or implement any program or deliver any service that will
unnecessarily duplicate any upper undergraduate level programs or services that are offered by one or more of the state’s eight
public universities within its/their existing programs or services.
Any community or junior college that takes any action that the MCCB, in its best judgment, finds to be inconsistent with this
Standard shall be so advised as soon as is reasonably practicable after the action comes to the MCCB’s attention. MCCB will
afford the college the opportunity to show that its action is not inconsistent with this Standard. Thereafter, if the MCCB remains
of the view that the action of the college is inconsistent with this Standard, no funding administered through the MCCB, direct or
indirect, will be available for support of such duplicative programs and services.