Transcript CACCRAO Annual Conference   Current status: No cuts, 3% Growth for 09-10 Means: --$165 million in unfunded enrollments --$33+ million property tax shortfall --$37

CACCRAO Annual Conference
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Current status: No cuts, 3% Growth for 09-10
Means: --$165 million in unfunded enrollments
--$33+ million property tax shortfall
--$37 million base shortfall (from 07-08)
--$340 million cash deferrals
--No COLA for 2 years = $570 million
loss in spending power
What’s coming:
 Revenues continue to decline
▪ $7.8 billion deficit has grown to $9.6 billion
 Propositions likely to fail
▪ Would increase deficit to $15.4 billion
 May Revise will be delayed
▪ Currently expected on May 28
 Revisiting 2009-10 budget will be protracted
 ARRA funds provide some (limited) help
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LAO Proposals:
 Fees double or more
 Reduced funding rate for “recreational” courses
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Categorical flexibility proposals were rejected
but likely to be back on the table
Advocacy continues: The California
Community Colleges are the key to the state’s
economic recovery
Sponsored bills:
 AB 386 (Ruskin) – Captioning of audio-visual
materials
 AB 669 (Fong) – Residency for foster youth
Other legislation:
 AB 440 (Beall) – Create a transfer degree
 AB 37 (Furutani) – Request that colleges and
universities confer an honorary degree upon any
person who was unable to complete due to the
internment of Japanese Americans in 1942
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Textbooks
 AB 317 (Solario) – Requirements for publishers,
bookstores and those who select books (adopters)
 SB 48 (Alquist) – Require publishers to make books
available in electronic format by 2020
 SB 216 (Liu) – Require colleges to post textbook
information on Web site at least 30 days before start
of class
 SB 386 (Runner) – Require faculty to provide “costbenefit analysis” before adopting new version of a
book within 3 years
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Concurrent Enrollment
 AB 78 (Portantino) – Allow ESL and Basic Skills,
eliminate principal’s recommendation, eliminate
5% summer cap, change “low enrollment priority”
to “not a high priority”
 AB 555 (Furutani) – Create pilot to allow 5 districts
(Kern, Long Beach, LA, Los Rios, San JoseEvergreen) to partner with schools to concurrently
enroll students for academic or CTE courses at the
college or high school and collect apportionment
for closed classes
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Assessment and Placement
 AB 371 (Fuller) – Spot bill to encourage CCCs to
provide incentives for students to enroll in Basic
Skills in their first year
 AB 1008 (Block) – Require the Board of Governors
to convene a working group to consider statewide
assessments and report by June 30, 2010
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50% Law
 AB 1157 (Block) – Change to 52% and include
counselors
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Veterans and Military
 SB 361 (Runner) – Clarify that enrollment priority
(SB 272, 2007) applies only to vets with honorable
discharge; adds Reserve and National Guard
 AB 38 (Salas) – Residency for anyone eligible for Post9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (new GI Bill)
with “domicile” in California
 AB 1569 (Committee on Veterans Affairs) – Entitle
dependents of military stationed in CA to resident status
for fee purposes as long as student is continuously
enrolled; retain resident classification for military when
reassigned outside the state if continuously enrolled;
conforms to change in federal law
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Veterans and Military - 2
 SB 646 (Denham) – Prohibit charging any fees to
honorably discharged CA resident vets or National
Guard who have exhausted federal veterans
benefits; promotes “catalog rights” for vets who
re-enroll within 1 year of discharge
 SB 15 (Cedillo) – Extend Cal Grant Entitlement to
vets who enlisted within 1 year of high school
graduation and enroll in college within 2 years of
discharge
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Veterans and Military - 3
 SB 611 (Correa) – Allow Cal Grant A award to be
used for non-tuition expenses if tuition is covered
by GI Bill
 SB 815 (Cogdill) – Create a non-need financial aid
program for active duty and veteran National
Guard of $500 plus tuition and fees
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Expelled students
 AB 1400 (Fong) – Authorize colleges to share
information about students expelled for specific
offenses
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Title IX Discrimination
 SB 195 (Florez) – Require colleges to certify that
every activity complies with federal law
prohibiting sex discrimination and impose a civil
penalty of $50,000 for false certification
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Transportation Fee
 AB 774 (Cook) – Add Rio Hondo and Riveside to
districts authorized to charge mandatory
transportation fee upon vote of students for public
transit
 SB 518 (Lowenthal) – Expected to extend
transportation fee authority statewide
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Nonresident capital outlay fee
 AB 947 (Brownley) -- Extend international student fee
to all nonresidents
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Recommendations for comment:
 Pre-requisites
Change Title 5 to only require content review (Model District
Policy on Pre-Requisites) for validation of a pre-requisite.
2. Support for statewide pre-requisites for specific courses to
be phased in over time. A significant question is what things
need to be considered in the development of any statewide
proposal.
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 Services
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Support ongoing system efforts to increase matriculation
funding. Promote a desirable counselor: student ratio (but
not require).
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Recommendations (continued):
 50% Law
Investigate what a reasonable percentage might be should
counselors and librarians be included with "classroom
faculty" for purposes of calculating 50% law compliance
(AB1157 a possible vehicle).
5. Investigate the effect of removing the "non-classroom"
loads of counselors and librarians from both the numerator
and denominator in 50% Law calculations, which would
then inform whether or not this might be brought forward
as a consensus proposal.
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 APG to conclude by June 30
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Withdrawal and Repetition
 Board of Governors First Reading on May 4; action
scheduled July 13; likely effective September 1
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Defining the AA and AS Degrees
 AS for areas of science, technology, engineering,
math and CTE
 AA for all others
 Effective for Fall 2011
 Also First Reading May 4; action scheduled July 13
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Proposed by UC President Mark Yudof
Charge is to identify reforms or strategies to increase
the number of CCC students who:
 Are transfer-ready
 Are offered and accept transfer
 Succeed at the receiving 4-year university
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Preliminary report by August 1, 2009
CCC representatives:
 Steering Committee: Morgan Lynn
 Planning Committee: Linda Michalowski and Jeff Spano
 Working Team: Linda Lacy, Jane Patton, Michelle Pilati,
Randy Lawson, Morgan Lynn and Linda Michalowski
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21 completed for 2008-09
Improvements in place: Data given to colleges,
Self-Evaluation format, Report Template, team
training materials, team and college Evaluation
Forms
System Advisory Committee on Student Services is
working on further improvements for 2009-10
Chancellor’s Office will have all 2008-09 reports to
colleges within 60 days of the end of the visit
Team composition and cancellations has been
greatest challenge
Memorandum sent March 28
 Funds may be spent until September 30, 2009
 Applies to EOPS, CARE, DSPS, Matriculation and
BFAP-Student Financial Aid Administration
 Memo includes reminder that implementation of
GASB-45 Advisory is on hold; categorical funds can
only be used for current employees
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