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EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLS
Small, autonomous schools where students earn an associate degree or two years of college credit. For more information, visit this CMS site.

EFL (see English as a Foreign Language)

ELEARNING
An umbrella term that includes all the ways the College offers courses for students at a distance including telecourses, television, and Internet. Organized instruction delivery by means other than face-to-face classroom contact. See eLearning.

ELECTIVE COURSE
A course that the student may choose to take to meet diploma/degree requirements, as distinguished from required courses. Some electives are specified within areas, such as Technical Electives, Humanities/Art Electives; others are Free Electives.

ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Academic English classes that help students learn English, reading, writing, grammar, and listening/speaking skills to prepare them to pursue a degree at the college level or for a professional career. Preferred term is Academic English as a Second Language.

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
English as a Second Language is a general term covering both Academic English as a Second Language and Adult English as a Second Language (see LEP).  Academic English as a Second Language prepares non-native speakers of English to function successfully in institutions of higher education and professional settings in the United States.

ESL (see English as a Second Language)

EXCEL
Excel is a spreadsheet creation and editing application produced by Microsoft. It is commonly included as a standard in the MS Office suite of applications and will be found in-use throughout CPCC's web sites and online offerings. A free "viewer" plug-in that allows users to view Excel spreadsheets without having the software installed on their system is available through the downloads area of the Microsoft web site.

EXEMPT EMPLOYEE
Employee who is exempt from federal laws (FLSA) that prevent an employee from working more than 40 hours a week without additional compensation.