§ 21-42-7-2 — Credit for military service courses

Indiana § 21-42-7-2

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 21: HIGHER EDUCATION
• Art. 42: STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS:
• Ch. 7: Military Education

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(a) Each state educational institution shall
adopt a policy to award educational credit to an individual who:
(1) is enrolled in a state educational institution; and
(2) successfully:
(A) completes courses that:
(i) are part of the individual's military service;
(ii) meet the standards of the American Council on
Education, or the council's successor organization, for
awarding academic credit; and
(iii) meet the state educational institution's role, scope, and
mission;
(B) completes:
(i) a College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) exam
developed by the College Board and receives a score of fifty
(50) or higher;
(ii) a United States Department of Defense's Defense Activity
for Non-Traditional Education Support Program examination;
or
(iii) an Excelsior College Examination;
that meets the state educational institution's role, scope, and
mission during the individual's military service in an active or
reserve component of the armed forces of the United States or
the Indiana National Guard or upon the individual's receiving
an honorable discharge from the armed forces of the United
States or the Indiana National Guard; or
(C) completes courses at a postsecondary educational
institution accredited by a regional accrediting agency or
association:
(i) during the individual's military service in an active or
reserve component of the armed forces of the United States
or the Indiana National Guard or upon the individual's
receiving an honorable discharge from the armed forces of
the United States or the Indiana National Guard; and
(ii) that meet the state educational institution's role, scope,
and mission.
(b) The state educational institution's policy described in subsection
(a) must provide that educational credit awarded to an individual under
this section applies to the individual's undergraduate degree
requirements if the credit is comparable and applicable, as reasonably
determined by the state educational institution, to credit offered by the
state educational institution and is necessary for the individual to meet
the individual's undergraduate degree requirements at the state
educational institution.
(c) Each state educational institution's policy described in
subsection (a):
(1) shall be reviewed by the commission for higher education and
subsequently published on the commission for higher education's
Internet web site; and
(2) shall be published on the state educational institution's
Internet web site.
(d) The amount of educational credits that may be applied to an
individual's degree requirements under subsection (b) may not exceed:
(1) seventy-five percent (75%) of an individual's degree
requirements, as determined by the state educational institution,
if the state educational institution in which the individual is
enrolled requires the individual to attend in person any course
during any part of the student's enrollment at the state educational
institution; or
(2) seventy percent (70%) of an individual's degree requirements,
as determined by the state educational institution, if one hundred
percent (100%) of the degree requirements for the degree
program is available online by the state educational institution.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.57-2012, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.101-2014, SEC.2.