Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
The nearly three-week-old Wright State faculty strike has affected some local high school students who take College Credit Plus classes through WSU, while other CCP students are attending classes as usual.
College Credit Plus is a statewide program that allows high school students to take college courses and earn high school and college credit simultaneously. The goal is to help more students earn degrees by cutting the time and cost of completing college.
Some Beavercreek College Credit Plus students have told their high school counselors that their Wright State classes have been cancelled, Beavercreek schools spokesman Ryan Gilding said late Friday night.
Wright State spokesman Seth Bauguess had said Wednesday that the fully canceled classes were specialized, higher-level courses. On Saturday morning, he acknowledged that “some CCP students have been affected by WSU class changes.” Neither Bauguess nor Gilding provided the number of affected classes.
Beavercreek officials told their CCP students in an email that if Wright State cancels a class that is required for the student’s high school graduation, “there will be options here at Beavercreek High School to obtain that credit.”
Both Beavercreek and Fairborn school officials said some of their CCP students are enrolled in Wright State classes where there has been no professor to teach the material. Fairborn staff said some students withdrew from Wright State classes before the CCP deadline to avoid a penalty.
“(We’ve been) assisting students with placement in other WSU classes that are still being held, assisting students with placements in other institutions of higher learning, and enrolling students in high school classes,” said Fairborn High School assistant principal Deb Hauberg.
