Transcript The Role of Noncredit in the California Community Colleges

Update from SACC
Michelle Pilati, Faculty, Rio Hondo College
Randy Lawson, Vice President, Santa Monica
College
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• Working together at the state level
• Accomplishments of SACC
• Lessons learned about collaboration
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Math & English Levels
Stand Alone Course Approval (AB 1943)
New Title 5 Areas under discussion
SB 361 Implementation
Hot Off the Presses – ASCCC Positions
Future Issues
Faculty & Administrators
at SACC
• SACC= System Advisory Committee on
Curriculum
• Agency Review recommendation
• Evolution of committee
• Growing pains
SACC’s Progress
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Stand Alone course approval (AB 1943)
Program & Course Approval Handbook
Guidelines on Tutoring & Learning Assistance
Title 5 discussions
Other topics
Lessons Learned
about Collaborating
at the state level
Everyone benefits when decisions include field
input from administrators and faculty
Additional areas where
collaboration is needed
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New program development
Program reduction & discontinuance
Administrator Retreat rights
Others
Strategies
• Avoid: “Us” vs “them”
• Move from small collaborations to bigger
(builds trust)
• Share information (demonstrate openness)
• Invite participation; it’s up to us!
• Faculty /administrators can’t do it alone
• Take advantage of natural alliances
(curriculum; challenging Board)
Math & English
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BoG action
Title 5 changes will take place in Fall 2009
What the change will say
What is being done state-wide (Basic Skills
Initiative)
Stand Alone Approval
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AB 1943
What stand alone courses are (and are not)
Fact Vs Fiction
Can’t be implemented without guidelines
Status quo for now
New areas of Title 5 under
discussion for revision
a. Article 2 of subchapter 1, sections 5510055183
Approval of courses, programs and classes
b. Subchapter 9, sections 55750-55765
Standards of Scholarship
c. Subchapter 10, sections 55800-55809,
Degrees and Certificates
d. Course repetition
SB 361 Implementation
• The legislation
• The emergency Title 5 regulations
– How developed
– Status
Supplemental Learning
Assistance & Tutoring
• New Guidelines
• Supplemental Instruction
• Online tutoring permitted
– Referrals to tutoring required
• Questions people raise
Section 58172
• Learning assistance as required component
of the course--for all students in the course
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• Optional & provided through open entry/
open exit
Open Entry/Open Exit Courses
• The course outline of record must
• identify the other course or courses that it supports
• include the specific learning objectives to be
addressed and the educational competencies
students are to achieve.
• Students must actively enroll
Tutoring
• Section 58170 – Apportionment for Tutoring
• Conditions for Apportionment include. . .
• Important change: The individual student
tutoring is conducted through a designated
learning center.
Referrals
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Electronic referrals OK
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Individual referrals preferred
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Records of referrals need to be kept
ASCCC Positions
• Resolved, That the Academic Senate for
California Community Colleges work with
local senates, local curriculum committees,
and chief instructional officers (CIOs) to
eliminate the use of the term “transfer” in
program titles for the associate degree.
ASCCC Positions
• Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California
Community Colleges urge local senates, through
their curriculum committees, to ensure that their local
processes support and promote high quality,
academic rigor, and integrity of their courses by
implementing a curricular review of all courses with
delivery methods that regularly replace classroom
time with an alternative mode of delivery, regardless
of the percentage of classroom time being replaced.
ASCCC Positions
• Resolved, That the Academic Senate for
California Community Colleges oppose the
use of IGETC and/or CSU GE Breadth as the
sole basis for the associate degree; and
• Resolved, That the Academic Senate for
California Community Colleges support
interpretation of Title 5 that prohibits the use
of IGETC and/or CSU GE Breadth as the sole
basis for the associate degree.
ASCCC Positions
• Resolved, That the Academic Senate for
California Community Colleges recommend
to the Board of Governors a change in Title 5
language to require a minimum grade of “C”
in all courses required in the area of
emphasis/major for an associate degree and
System Office approved certificates.
ASCCC Positions
• Resolved, That ASCCC recommend that a
change in, or any interpretation of, Title 5
reflect that a college may choose (in its local
policy) to permit additional course repetitions
for substandard grades, without
reapportionment
On down the road. . .
• Program & Course Approval Handbook
• More about Noncredit
• Associate degrees