Criminal Intent

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Criminal Intent Innate or Learned? Why We Do
What We Do

• Ian Walton and Michelle Pilati

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Earlier titles..

• Serial Killers Born or Bred?
• Serial Killers Innate or Learned?
• The point?

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Innate or Learned?

• Tabula rasa we are not born knowing how to
  construct a COR
• Your faculty are your blank slates write upon
  them frequently and effectively

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Education Code 70902 (b)(7)

• The Governing Board shall ensure the right of
  academic senates to assume primary responsibility
  for making recommendation in the areas of
  curriculum and academic standards.

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Title 5 53203 - Powers

• (A) Governing Board shall adopt policies
  delegating authority and responsibility to its
  Academic Senate.
• (B) Policies in (A) shall be adopted through
  collegial consultation with the Academic Senate.

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1 ofThe 101

• 1. Curriculum, including establishing
  prerequisites.

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Education Code

• The academic senate has primary responsibility
  for making recommendations in the area of
  curriculum and academic standards Ed. Code
  '70902(b)(7). This right is protected as a
  minimum standard set by the Board of Governors
  Ed. Code '70901(b)(1)(E).
• The local governing board has the responsibility
  to establish policies for and approve courses of
  instruction and educational programs Ed. Code
  '70902(b)(2).
• Title 5 55002(a)(1) requires that the curriculum
  committee contain faculty.

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Title 5, 55002

• (1) Curriculum Committee. The college and/or
  district curriculum committee recommending the
  course shall be established by the mutual
  agreement of the college and/or district
  administration and the academic senate. The
  committee shall be either a committee of the
  academic senate or a committee that includes
  faculty and is otherwise comprised in a way that
  is mutually agreeable to the college and/or
  district administration and the academic senate.

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Why?

• Ed Code Law
• Title 5 Regulation with the force of law
• Guidelines developed by the SO
• The challenge of legalese

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Laws

• Subject to interpretation
• Pros and Cons
• Inherently fluid
• Changeable

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Current Issues

• Degrees
• Raising the math and English requirements
• Courses in languages other than English
• Repeatability issues
• Changes in noncredit
• Validating prerequisites

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Degrees

• Is your AA legal?
• May, 2005
• Minimum Requirements for the Associate Degree (
  55806).
• Major Requirements. At least 18 semester or 27
  quarter units of study taken in a single
  discipline or related disciplines, as listed in
  the Community Colleges Taxonomy of Programs,
  shall be required.

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Minimum Conditions Compliance Advice Legal
Advisory 05-05

• This requirement disallows "majors" with no
  discernible focus or majors constructed of
  loosely structured items of interest selected
  individually by students. Districts should
  ensure that this requirement is observed and that
  a clear major is described in connection with
  each associate degree offered.

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Raising the math and English requirements

• Title 5 55805.5. Types of Courses Appropriate
  to the Associate Degree
• (c) English courses not more than one level below
  the first transfer level composition course,
  typically known as English 1A. Each student may
  count only one such course as credit toward the
  associate degree.
• (d) All mathematical courses above and including
  Elementary Algebra.

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S05 Resolution 9.01 Change the Current Title 5
Requirement for English

• That the ASCCC recommend to the BoG that the
  associate degree minimum requirement for English
  in Title 5 55805.5, be changed to read an
  English course at the level of the course
  typically known as 1A, either English 1A or
  another English course at the same level and with
  the same rigor, approved locally

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S05 Resolution 9.02 Change the Current Title 5
Requirement for Mathematics

• Resolved, That the ASCCC recommend to the BoG
  that the associate degree minimum requirement for
  mathematics in Title 5 55805.5, be changed to
  read "a mathematics course at the level of the
  course typically known as intermediate algebra,
  either intermediate algebra or another
  mathematics course at the same level, with the
  same rigor and with elementary algebra as a
  prerequisite, approved locally."

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Raising the math and English requirements

• Moving forward
• Details on Saturday

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EDUCATION CODE

• Article 3.  Language of Instruction SECTION
  30-30.5
• 30.  English shall be the basic language of
  instruction in all schools. The governing board
  may determine when and under what circumstances
  instruction may be given bilingually.

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EDUCATION CODE

• It is the policy of the state to insure the
  mastery of English by all pupils in the schools
  provided that bilingual instruction may be
  offered in those situations when such instruction
  is educationally advantageous to the pupils. 
• 30.5.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
  law, bilingualeducation shall be defined as a
  system of instruction which builds upon the
  language skills of a pupil whose primary language
  is neither English nor derived from English. 
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Courses in languages other than English

• Deemed illegal by the System Office, but a
  formal legal opinion has been requested
• Bilingual IS permitted
• What is bilingual?

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Title 5 55002 Standards and Criteria for
Courses and Classes

• (5) Repetition. Repeated enrollment is allowed
  only in accordance with provisions of Chapter 2
  (commencing with Section 51000), sections
  55761-55763 and 58161 of this Division.
• Withdrawal and Course Repetition Legal Advisory
  04-01 (January 2004)
• In your Evidence Kit

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Repetition

• California Code of Regulations, title 5, section
  55761 requires each district to adopt a policy on
  repetition of courses to alleviate substandard
  work and section 55763 permits, but does not
  require, districts to adopt policies providing
  for repetition of courses where substandard work
  has not previously been recorded.

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Repetition

• A college may permit more repetitions than
  permitted under code, but then apportionment can
  not be collected and credit not granted.
• Lots of murkiness..
• Which grade factors into the GPA?
• Should there be further limits?

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Validating prerequisites

• While we have to validate prerequisites if we
  want to place them on courses, external entities
  can mandate them and we can then comply without
  validation
• Unintended consequences?
• Concerns about LDTP

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Conclusion

• Lots to absorb over the next few days..
• Questions?