New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Chapter V - State University of New York
Subchapter D - Code of Standards and Procedures for the Administration and Operation of Community Colleges under the Program of State University of New York
Part 601 - Initial Organization Of A Community College
Section 601.6 - Criteria for state university trustees' approval of community college full- opportunity plans

(a) make it possible at least for every applicant who is a high school graduate in the year prior or a veteran, regardless of high school graduation date, and who is a resident in the sponsorship area, to take some appropriate program, credit or noncredit, on a full-time basis; the student's range of choices shall include developmental studies, certificate and diploma studies, and associate-degree studies, either college transfer or career;

(b) commit the college to allowing each student sufficient time to explore appropriate career goals; a student should have an opportunity to change a chosen field of study, the allowable number of such changes to be determined locally;

(c) provide that where the student's basic educational skills need improvement, appropriate instruction will be supplied;

(d) include provisions for the individualization of instruction and a clear explanation of how "nontraditional" learning resources are to be used;

(e) demonstrate that there will be a continuity of counseling of the individual student from the high school through the college program, i.e., show that there is an articulation of counseling between the college and the high schools;

(f) provide evidence of the adequacy of the college faculty to implement the plan;

(g) include specific reference to increased space utilization, extended instructional day, year- round calendar or other administrative expedients which will be employed as economy measures;

(h) show what adaptations of previous admissions office practices, academic grading practices, and counseling practices will be made in service of the new, more heterogeneous student population;

(i) provide specifically for the filing of an annual report with State University of New York on progress towards implementation of the plan, approval of annual payment(s) to be contingent on the filing of such annual report(s). Such annual progress reports shall be submitted to the Chancellor, State University of New York, or designee, according to the following schedule(s): 9/1-8/31 fiscal year by 8/31 of each fiscal year; 7/1-6/30 fiscal year by 6/30 of each fiscal year.