A dual enrollment grant has been offered to teachers around campus to help them get their master’s degrees, however, currently only 1 teacher is currently utilizing that opportunity.
“So, I think perhaps one of the biggest reasons is because the money is not necessarily guaranteed. So its paid out in four parts over the course of four years and the first 10,000 dollars is paid out like once you get your masters degree, you get that 10,000 provided you’re still working at Roseville High School,” Principal Ashley Serin said.
Serin wants to redirect some of these unused funds to other things that would benefit the dual enrollment program.
“We need a leadership team and a coordinator to really drive it so I do want to allocate some of that money to putting together that leadership team. Also if we are looking at pathways, if we need to pay for extra classes like oh we’re so close but we need one more class to finish this pathway, I can use the grant money to pay for us to be able to offer that class,” Serin said. “In the meantime, there’s a lot of different things I’ve been looking at, we want to do more for field trips and experiences for our students in dual enrollment class especially field trips to Sierra College if you are getting a Sierra College transcript we would love to be able to show you Sierra College and maybe even Sac State, I know we have a partnership with sax state without computer science program so that would be incredible to build a little more of the field trips,”
Dual enrollment English teacher Alison Warr appreciates the funds being used to build a dual enrollment leadership team, but believes that field trips are not a necessary part of the program.
“I mean that’s kind of how our system works. We create a program then we need the administration to make sure everything is taken care of so there are a lot of aspects and contracts and stuff like that. It makes sense that we have a go-to person I mean field trips and dual enrollment I don’t really think that is necessary, I think programs like AVID where its college exploration and stuff like that it’s better spent there other than campus exploration and a lot of seniors really kinda know their top choices and I mean field trips are fun it’s nice to get out of the classroom but at the same time being connected to a program like dual enrollment its different than a program like avid,” Warr said.
Some students believe that these changes would benefit them and expose them to things outside of the classroom.
“I think it’s great cause we just get to go to places where we might want to work in the future and we get to learn about what they do and just all about it,” dual enrollment student Trevor Ashe said.
“I think it’s great i mean you get kids more exposure to like Sierra College just kind of what the course is about since you’re getting credit,” dual enrollment student Travis Barajas said.
