High School Partnerships

The High School Partnership at KCKCC (Kansas City Kansas Community College) is a unique student-centered learning experience that allows high school students in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grade to expand their curriculum by scheduling courses or completing a program offered through KCKCC Career and Technical Division.

Students have a choice to take courses at their high school, online, virtually, on KCKCC’s main campus, the Technical Center or at PCC (Pioneer Center in Leavenworth). Taught by an adjunct professor (dual instructor) or by an approved high school teacher during the school day (concurrent instructor) or a highly skilled Technical Educator.

We want to collaborate with secondary institutions in our immediate service area, to provide direction and momentum for post-secondary persistence, and career readiness for high school students.

• Promote early college-level success and persistence in a post-secondary setting.
• Decrease the amount of time in route to a degree/certification completion.
• Foster improved relationships between KCKCC and all secondary schools in our service area and beyond.
• Build the framework for college going norms with confidence for high students in our service area.

The High School Partnership program will give students who are on the fence about college the chance to take a variety of courses that will help students determine what they like and do not like. 

Dual enrollment classes also tend to be more rigorous than standard high school classes, requiring students to learn to be more responsible, enhance their study habits, and improve their time management skills. Preparing before college may help with the challenges of adjusting to college life.

1. Application and Testing window for fall 2024 opens February 1 – March 31.
2. Application and testing window for spring 2025 opens September 1 – October 31.
3. Dual enrollment for fall 2024 begins on April 1.
4. Roster reconciliation for fall 2024 May 15.
5. Roster reconciliation for spring 2025 December 12.
6. Dual enrollment for spring 2025 begins November 1.
7. TEC applications will be accepted April 1 – 15 for fall 2024 and November 1 – 15 for spring 2025
8. Roster should be reconciled by May 15 for Fall 2024 and December 13 for Spring 2025.
9. Course requests are due in the spring and should be submitted to Julius Brownlee via email: Jbrownlee@aurora-ro.com. 

Note: Courses with less than 10 students enrolled by the reconciliation dates should be prepared for cancellation.

• From the college home page, select “Quick Links”, then “Self Service”
• Log in with your KCKCC credentials
• From the landing page, click on “Class Schedule”.
• From the search page you can search for classes by program or subject matter.
• Use the Filter Results column to narrow your search based on, availability, location, terms, and the days of the week, time of day, and instructors.

The Kansas Challenge to Secondary School Students Act, K.S.A. 72-3220 through 72-3224, (Challenge Act) provides a means for school districts, in cooperation with eligible postsecondary institutions, to challenge high school students by procuring early college opportunities. The Kansas Board of Regents encourages all system postsecondary institutions to collaborate with local school districts and provide dual credit opportunities to high school students through cooperative agreements entered under the Challenge Act. The Challenge Act does not mandate system postsecondary institutions to offer dual credit enrollment to students in local school districts. However, if an eligible system postsecondary institution chooses not to offer dual credit enrollment with local districts under the Challenge Act, following Board policy for Off-Campus Delivery of Academic Courses and Programs, the home institution shall allow eligible system postsecondary institutions outside the institution’s service area to provide the Challenge Act opportunities with those school districts. The Challenge Act requires dual credit to be offered only through a cooperative agreement.

“Dual Credit Cooperative Agreement” means a written memorandum of understanding between an eligible postsecondary institution and a school district entered pursuant to the Kansas Challenge to Secondary School Students Act for the purpose of offering dual credit courses to eligible students who receive both high school credit and college credit.