Update from SACC

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Update from SACC

• Michelle Pilati, Faculty, Rio Hondo College
• Randy Lawson, Vice President, Santa Monica College

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Preview

• Working together at the state level
• Accomplishments of SACC
• Lessons learned about collaboration

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Preview

• 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

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Faculty Administrators at SACC

• SACC System Advisory Committee on Curriculum
• Agency Review recommendation
• Evolution of committee
• Growing pains

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SACCs Progress

• Stand Alone course approval (AB 1943)
• Program Course Approval Handbook
• Guidelines on Tutoring Learning Assistance
• Title 5 discussions
• Other topics

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Lessons Learned about Collaborating at the
state level

• Everyone benefits when decisions include field
  input from administrators and faculty

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Additional areas where collaboration is needed

• New program development
• Program reduction discontinuance
• Administrator Retreat rights
• Others

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Strategies

• Avoid Us vs them
• Move from small collaborations to bigger (builds
  trust)
• Share information (demonstrate openness)
• Invite participation its up to us!
• Faculty /administrators cant do it alone
• Take advantage of natural alliances (curriculum
  challenging Board)

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Math English

• 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)

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Stand Alone Approval

• AB 1943
• What stand alone courses are (and are not)
• Fact Vs Fiction
• Cant be implemented without guidelines
• Status quo for now

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New areas of Title 5 under discussion for revision

• Article 2 of subchapter 1, sections 55100-55183
• Approval of courses, programs and classes
• b. Subchapter 9, sections 55750-55765 Standards
  of Scholarship
• Subchapter 10, sections 55800-55809, Degrees and
  Certificates
• Course repetition

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SB 361 Implementation

• The legislation
• The emergency Title 5 regulations
• How developed
• Status

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Supplemental Learning Assistance Tutoring

• New Guidelines
• Supplemental Instruction
• Online tutoring permitted
• Referrals to tutoring required
• Questions people raise

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Section 58172

• Learning assistance as required component of the
  course--for all students in the course
• OR
• Optional provided through open entry/
• open exit

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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

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Tutoring

• Section 58170 Apportionment for Tutoring
• Conditions for Apportionment include. . .
• Important change The individual student tutoring
  is conducted through a designated learning
  center.

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Referrals

• Electronic referrals OK
• Individual referrals preferred
• Records of referrals need to be kept

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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On down the road. . .

• Program Course Approval Handbook
• More about Noncredit
• Associate degrees