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Patrick & Henry Community College welcomes senior citizens to enroll in career credit classes. In addition to creating a student profile, senior citizens must complete the Senior Citizen Tuition Assistance Agreement form and submit to the office of the Registrar, if interested in enrolling under the Virginia Senior Citizens Higher Education Act of 1974. Unless contacted ahead of time by college staff or faculty, seniors should plan to attend class(es) until the final determination is made.
Under the Virginia Senior Citizens Higher Education Act of 1974, senior citizens may enroll in career credit courses and pay only for required course materials, including textbook, workbook, online access codes or subscriptions, testing fees, and similar expenses. There is no cost for tuition if the student has:
Senior citizens registering under these provisions must do so on a space-available basis after all tuition-paying students have been accommodated and contingent on a minimum number of paying students for a career credit class to meet go-no go class requirements.
P&HCC has no obligation under the Virginia Senior Citizens Higher Education Act of 1974 to offer courses specifically to meet the needs of senior citizens or to continue to provide a particular course for a senior citizen who has registered for the course if the regular enrollment in the course is not adequate to justify the course offering.
Under the Virginia Senior Citizens Higher Education Act of 1974, senior citizens may enroll in career credit courses and pay only for required course materials, including textbook, workbook, online access codes or subscriptions, testing fees, and similar expenses. There is no cost for tuition if the student has:
- Reached sixty years of age.
- Had legal domicile in Virginia for a minimum of a one-year period to the beginning of the class one seeks assistance.
- Had a taxable individual income not exceeding $23,850 for Virginia income tax purposes for the year preceding in which enrollment is sought.
Senior citizens registering under these provisions must do so on a space-available basis after all tuition-paying students have been accommodated and contingent on a minimum number of paying students for a career credit class to meet go-no go class requirements.
P&HCC has no obligation under the Virginia Senior Citizens Higher Education Act of 1974 to offer courses specifically to meet the needs of senior citizens or to continue to provide a particular course for a senior citizen who has registered for the course if the regular enrollment in the course is not adequate to justify the course offering.
