November 17, 2022
Now is the time to plan for growing your program for AY 2023-24

Broadening your course offerings provides opportunity for your students to navigate barriers to higher education.
Giving them a series of CWU courses which are scaffolded to meet their graduation requirements as well as satisfy university general education requirements can establish a path to college and career success, while reducing their potential student loan debt in the future.

While high school graduation requirements are set by the state, course equivalencies are identified by your school district.
Are you curious about how the CWU CiHS classes may equate to your graduation requirements?
For example:
  • Education (EFC), Engineering Technologies, Safety and Construction (ETSC includes Robotics, Drafting, Modeling and more), Information Technology (ITAM), or ASL courses can potentially cover the CTE credit requirement.
  • Political Science (POSC), Sociology (SOC) or Humanities (HUM) have been equated to US or World History and/or civics.
  • Our sciences program is strong, with Biology, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography, and Physics that satisfy the state requirements, including lab science.
  • English, Math and PE are basic building blocks for all students, giving an advantage to anyone who may need support or more challenging rigor.
  • College admission requirements for foreign language can be met by ASL, Japanese, French, German, or Spanish through CWU.
  • Arts and Electives credits can be earned through Music, Theater, Art, or other CWU choices.
  • For more information about each course, see Course Descriptions and Prerequisites Guide for 2022-23. New classes are being added for 2023-24.

As you consider the classes, staff and students working with College in the High School, remember that our staff is ready, willing and able to answer your questions, individually or with your team.
Phone (509) 963-1351 or email HSPartnerships@cwu.edu to connect.
New teacher applications for AY 2023-24 being accepted now
Teachers who meet the Minimum Qualifications are encouraged to apply to be approved as a CWU Instructor for College in the High School.
  • Minimum Qualifications are the same for faculty applicants on any CWU campus, but are different for each discipline. They are set by the academic department for CWU which reviews the applications.
  • Generally, a Master's Degree is required. Employment experience and/or other qualifications (such as National Board certification) may be taken into account, depending on the discipline.
  • Applicants who are approved must attend Summer Institute training, to be held on various dates and locations during Summer 2023.
Please see Application Process which is on line, using the portal at cihs.cwu.edu
  • If your qualified teachers are curious about how a course they are already teaching may line up with a CWU course, they are invited to contact an Academic Liaison for guidance, and to request a sample CWU syllabus for a course or make any other inquiry, please email hspartnerships@cwu.edu.

The Monthly Enrollment Reports
Around the first business day of each month when your school has students enrolled with CWU, your district office fiscal team will receive a report listing all of the students, their classes, and their payment model.
Only students who have been fully enrolled before the first of the month will be listed.
  • If there are still students in process, they will be listed on the next report.
  • Reviewers and teachers both can check the CiHS Registration platform to see if there are students still in process at your school(s).
Confirming Funding Choices:
On the monthly report, each student will show the payment method selected by your reviewer team, whether it's:
  • Cornerstone Self-Pay (we invoice each student) or
  • School Pay (either Cornerstone or CES Dual Credit Grant funding.)
  • The district office needs to inform the reviewers at each school about which students receive grant funding or other support.
Based on the Annual Contract:
Funding choices that the Reviewers can select are determined by the Inter-Local Agreement (ILA) which is the annual contract between CWU and your school district, and is completed during the summer.
  • Districts can select School Pay or Student Pay or both on the ILA.
  • Once fully executed, changes to the ILA require formal amending and that must occur before school starts in the fall.
  • No changes to the ILA can be made after September 30.
  • Schools that would like a copy of their district ILA can request it from their district office. A sample (unfilled) ILA is available here: Sample ILA
Prepare for Billing
  • For students: Invoices are created on the 5th of the month, beginning after they are fully enrolled. For example, say students apply, then are approved, and then checked by our staff and are enrolled on the 20th of October. On the 5th of November, invoices for those students are created and go out in the mail, to be received by the families within a few days after that.
  • For Schools: Invoices are created quarterly. Schools who are covering the fees for their students will receive an invoice near the end of December, the end of March (only for quarter and trimester schools) and in mid to late June. Reminders are sent monthly.
Keep an Eye on Winter (Quarter or Trimester) Registration:
Inform your Students:
  • Provide information to your students and their parents about the program, and how to register. Include the Student Registration Guide (pdf) and if you have time, allow them to check the Registration Process video during class. Share the Student Packet (pdf).
  • Remind your students to have an accurate, valid email address for a parent/guardian, one for an email inbox that their adult checks frequently. Parent consent is required, and can be added to the student registration electronically.
  • Please share the link for the Student/Parent Participation Guide www.cwu.edu/college-hs/student-participation-guide with your students and their families. This Guide will answer all the questions they may have about the CWU program. Information which is pertinent and from your school (classes, teachers, schedules, applicable fees, etc.) should be shared as well.
  • You are encouraged to use your school's system for communicating with parents (text and/or email) to inform them about these opportunities (and make sure the students have a valid parent email address).
Additional Calendar Notes:
  • Testing or retesting must be completed before the Reviewer Recommendation deadline.
  • English Self Placement survey for ENG 101 must be taken by students before they choose the course and before a Reviewer approves.
  • See All Deadlines for AY 2022-23
Additional Reviewer Note:
A new student status: Corrections Needed - See Notes has been added to the CiHS registration platform.
  • When CWU staff has questions or a recommendation is incomplete, we will set the student in this status and add a note.
  • Please check the NOTES tab in the student account and respond accordingly.
Reminder:
Please remind the students that they (not their parent/guardian) needs to be contacting us if they need any secure student account information. FERPA prevents CiHS staff from discussing certain aspects of a student account with anyone other than the student, including financial information.
English Self Placement for Students
Students interested in ENG 101 can self-place into the course instead of placement testing.
Students need to take the self-placement survey BEFORE they add the class in the CiHS registration platform.
  • Students must take the survey found at this link: https://www.cwu.edu/general-education/directed-self-placement,
  • The survey will ask for a CWU email and CWU ID number
  • If the student has taken courses through CiHS, they have one and they enter it.
  • If the student is new to CWU and has no ID, they enter their own email and 10000000 (8 digits total).
  • Students need to work all the way through to completion of the survey in order to get a result.
  • Students receive a recommendation at the end of the survey and an email (which they need to save). The recommendation tells the students whether AW1 is the best choice at this time, or not. AW1 = Academic Writing 1 = ENG 101
  • They should save or print the survey recommendation.
  • Then they may register for ENG 101.
  • If a student registers but reviewers think it's not in the student's best interest then we encourage the Reviewer (or teacher) to view the students recommendation report (which they have printed) and have a conversation with the student: is this the right time, are they ready, there are expectations, this goes on your official college transcript etc. Ultimately it is up to the student if they want to register. We ask that the student have all the necessary information to make an informed decision. Student success is the goal.
  • The student can reach out to our advisor if they want to talk to someone at CWU about the class, student success, implications of taking the course, etc.
  • There will be an "English Directed Self-Placement" indicator within the CiHS reviewer portal for ENG 101 prerequisite.
  • CiHS office staff will confirm that the student has taken the survey (we confirm all prerequisites for any course) before putting them forward to enrollment.
  • Please see the letter from the CiHS English Department Faculty Liaison for additional specific information. If you still have questions, please contact Josh Aubol in the CWU English department.
  • If you have already tested for placement, we will accept those scores. Going forward, the expectation is that students will take the new Directed Self-Placement Survey for enrollment into ENG 101.
NACEP Conference:
The CWU CiHS team visited beautiful Minneapolis Minnesota for four days of workshops, panels, networking and program development inspiration with accredited programs from around the U.S.
The variety of ways universities and colleges partner with their area high schools, navigate state policy and funding (or lack thereof), and support students with innovative programs and inclusive goals is astonishing and eye-opening.
Though all programs are different, serving different populations with different needs, everyone... EVERYONE there had student support as a top priority. Our program is your program and we will continue to build on our successes and refine our approach to things that need improving.
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Phone (509) 963-1351
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