College Catalog 2013-14

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EAST CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE

MISSISSIPPI VIRTUAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE The Mississippi Virtual Community College is a cooperative of Mississippi’s 15 community college districts and the Mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges. Its mission is to provide educational opportunities to constituencies who live within the various community and junior college districts inMississippi and to others beyond those boundaries. Through MSVCC, students may take courses from community & junior colleges anywhere in Mississippi while getting support services from a local college. To take a course from a remote (provider) college, a student enrolls at a local (host) community or junior college. The host college supports the student with a full slate of student services including advisement and counseling, financial aid, and learning resources. The host college receives the student’s tuition and fees. The host college awards credit for the course. The remote (provider) college provides the course instruction. Assignments, tests, and grades are administered by one of its instructors. For this instructional service, the provider college receives the state’s reimbursement for the enrollment. This cooperative makes it possible for MSVCC colleges to leverage their distance learning resources— including faculty, courses, support services, and technology—to benefit students throughout Mississippi and beyond. For a list of courses offered through MSVCC, please see the web site at http://msvcc.blackboard.com. HEALTHCARE EDUCATION STUDENTS Students applying for any Healthcare Education Program must meet all General Admission Requirements of the College. In addition to the general admission requirements, each program has specific requirements for admission. All Healthcare Education Program applications must be submitted to the Office of Healthcare Education. Application Deadlines: Post acceptance requirements for students selected for admission into any Healthcare Education Program are: ECCC Health Examination form (completed prior to the beginning of class), immunizations against measles, mumps, rubella (MMR, two immunizations), or rubella titer, Hepatitis B vaccine, or signed declination statement, TB skin test (2 step TB test required if not tested in previous 12 months) and American Heart Association Healthcare Provider Course (completed in June, July or August of year of admission). All healthcare education students are required to submit to a criminal background check according to Mississippi law prior to any clinical experience. If the person has ever been convicted of a felony, or pleaded guilty to, or pleaded no contest to a felony of possession or sale of drugs, murder, manslaughter, armed robbery, rape, sexual battery, sex offence listed in Section 45-33-23 (f), child abuse, grand larceny, burglary, gratification of lust or aggravated assault, felonious abuse and/or battery of a vulnerable adult they may not be eligible to attend clinical experience, thus forfeiting their slot in the program. Students enrolled in any healthcare education program must submit to random drug screening at any time during the program. Students enrolled in any healthcare education program must carry professional liability insurance provided through the college. The student is responsible for all expenses incurred with drug screening, liability insurance and criminal background check. These fees are attached as a lab fee to the student’s account in the college business office. Transportation costs to and from clinical sites will be at the student’s expense. An application to any of the healthcare education programs may be obtained online at www.eccc.edu. Associate Degree Nursing for annual fall admission: March 31 LPN to ADN Transition for annual spring admission: November 15 Practical Nursing for annual fall admission: May 1 Practical Nursing for annual spring admission: October 1 Surgical Technology for annual spring admission: June 1