Updates: Chancellor

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Updates Chancellors Office andAcademic Senate

• Stephanie Low, Interim Dean, CCCCO
• Jane Patton, President, ASCCC CIO Conference
  October 23, 2009

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What is the meaning of a Calif. Community College
Degree?

• To students, the community, the workplace, the
  policymakers
• The ASCCC paper (www.asccc.org)

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New Clarity A.A. Versus A.S.

• A.S. STEM disciplines (science, technology,
  engineering, mathematics and some CTE
• A.A. everything else
• Local determination, e.g. graphic design
• BoG approved but. . .

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AB 440 (Transfer Degrees)

• The ASCCC positions
• Whats under discussion
• Where it started ended up
• Whats next

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The PragmaticsCreating New Degrees

• What happens locally
• What happens in the Chancellors Office
• New Forms
• Approval process
• PCAH3

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Tips (from PCAH3)

• Download and use new forms (Rev. March 2009)
• Submit correct number of copies
• original and one copy of 2-page credit program
  applications
• original only for 1-page applications
• Submit course outlines with new program and
  substantial change applications
• Labor market data (CTE) must be specific to your
  college service area, metropolitan service area,
  county or region
• State and/or national data is not enough!
• Employer survey

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Components of a degree

• All proposals for associate degrees must include
  program requirements, including number of units
  for
• General Education (local, or IGETC or CSU GE)
• Major or Area of Emphasis
• Competencies
• Local Requirements
• Transfer students should be advised to complete
• CSUGE, IGETC, or university-specific GE pattern
• Transferable courses for electives

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POP QUIZ Major or Area of Emphasis

• . . . must consist of
• A single discipline
• A minimum of 18 semester
• (or 27 quarter) units
• No more than 3 disciplines
• Lower division and upper division courses
• None of the above

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Major or Area of Emphasis components

• 18 units (or 27 quarter units)
• Major Concentration in a single discipline or
  related disciplines. If transfer-oriented degree,
  then the major will prepare students for a
  specific baccalaureate major.
• Area of Emphasis Broader grouping of courses.
  Prepares students for a field of study or for a
  specific major at UC or CSU or may be as broad as
  social sciences or theme-based interdisciplinary
  coursework (e.g., Gender Studies).

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Local Requirements

• Represents areas of importance to the institution
  and local community
• For example
• Physical education course
• Information competency
• Computer literacy
• Cultural pluralism/ethnic or gender studies

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Associate Degree Approvals

• 723 associate degrees were approved in 2008
• 244 associate degrees have been approved in 2009
• 2008 approved degrees by T.O.P. category
• T.O.P. 49 Interdisciplinary Studies 527
• T.O.P. 22 Social Sciences 58
• T.O.P. 11 Foreign Language 35
• T.O.P. 10 Fine Applied Arts 31
• T.O.P. 05 Business Management 27
• T.O.P. 21 Public Protective Services 26
• T.O.P. 15 Humanities (Letters) 22

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Something Else New!

• Certificate of Achievement in recognition of
  completion of general education transfer patterns
  established by
• CSU GE-Breadth
• IGETC
• Accredited public postsecondary institutions in
  adjacent states which award the baccalaureate
  degree
• T5, 55070

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Pop Quiz

• Recent changes to Title 5 affecting the associate
  degree include all of the following EXCEPT
• Allowing colleges to tailor degrees using areas
  of emphasis
• Strengthening competencies in written expression
  and mathematics
• Requiring coursework in information literacy
• Strengthening the grade requirement for all
  courses in the major or area of emphasis
• Adding a certificate of achievement option in
  transfer general education patterns

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Opportunities. . .

• Well-designed degree with a major
• Well-designed degree with an area of emphasis
• Certificate of Achievement General Education
  Transfer Pattern
• Opportunity to re-examine your associate degrees
  to ensure quality, academic integrity, and
  purpose.
• Are your degrees meeting a compelling need?
• Transfer prep
• Career prep
• Community need
• Academic interest

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Pre-requisites

• ASCCC resolutions (positions)
• APG recommendations
• APG status
• Pilot
• Task Group
• Chair Richard Mahon
• richard.mahon_at_rcc.edu

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Minimum Qualifications

• Changes to Disciplines List
• Under discussion Should there be no
  equivalency to an AA for all disciplines?

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• Course Identification Number System
• Collaboration with UC CSU
• Your role

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CB 21 Coding

• Where it started
• Progress (credit noncredit)
• Next steps

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Background CB 21

• CB 21 Courses Prior to College/Transfer
• A one level below
• B two levels below
• C three levels below
• Y four or more or transfer
• There was no statewide review to examine
  curriculum Are 4 levels enough? Does everyone
  identify the same course as college?

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Background CB 21

• Course Prior to College/Transfer different for
  every college, even within districts
• Levels not comparable
• CB 21 coding not well understood
• Basic Skills levels and student pathways not
  defined
• Three levels inadequate for current basic skills
  needs

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What is Course Prior to Transfer Level?

• The course level in terms of number of levels
  prior to transferrable level a bright line
• Primarily for basic skills/remedial courses, not
  transferrable courses
• Can be used for noncredit and credit
  degree-applicable and non degree-applicable
• Used for English, writing, ESL, reading, or
  mathematics in a sequence
• NOT used for
• non-sequential courses such as study skills,
  Citizenship or ESL Civics
• transferable courses because they are college
  level

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CB 21 Rubrics Created to Describe Levels Courses
Prior to TRANSFER
Discipline Credit Noncredit Likely bridge to credit
Math Four levels CB 21 A, B, C, D Six levels CB 21 A, B, C, D, E, F Levels C D
English Four levels CB 21 A, B, C, D Seven levels CB 21 A, B, C, D, E, F, G Level B or C
Reading Four levels CB 21 A, B, C, D Five levels CB 21 A, B, C, D, E Level A or B
ESL 6 levels ESL Reading CB 21 A, B, C, D, E, F 8 levels ESL Integrated CB 21 A,B,C,D,E, F, G, H Includes vocational and Cultural skills Most noncredit end 2 levels prior to English 1 A at Level B
6 levels ESL Writing CB 21 A, B, C, D, E, F 8 levels ESL Integrated CB 21 A,B,C,D,E, F, G, H Includes vocational and Cultural skills Most noncredit end 2 levels prior to English 1 A at Level B
6 levels ESL Speaking Listening CB 21 A, B, C, D, E, F 8 levels ESL Integrated CB 21 A,B,C,D,E, F, G, H Includes vocational and Cultural skills Most noncredit end 2 levels prior to English 1 A at Level B
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Things to Consider

• If you code every basic skills class at 4 levels
  below, you will have few improvements
• It pays to have a full ladder using as many
  levels as possible-- to show differentiation
• Noncredit - perfect solution for 30 unit limit on
  basic skills in Title 5be cognizant of where the
  noncredit ladder ties in with credit
• Progression into credit levels also shows progress

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Things to Consider

• Levels must mean the same thing across campuses
• Student movement does not preclude you from
  getting credit for success elsewhere
• provided your neighbor is coding properly and
  uniformly as well

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Things to Consider

• If your ladder has more than 4 steps
• Keep as many as you can, but some may have to be
  compacted
• You may have 7 levels of ESL, your neighbor has 3
• If we allow everyone to code their own number of
  levels, colleges would be advantaged/disadvantaged
  based solely on their curricular
  segmentationnot good
• Research indicates too many steps are a barrier
  to progress
• There are TIPPING POINTS

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Resources

• Data Element Dictionary
• http//cccco.edu  Chancellor's Office 
•  Divisions 
•  Tech. Research Info. 
•  MIS 
•  Data Element Dictionary (right
  links)
• T.O.P. Manual
• http//cccco.edu  Chancellor's Office 
•  Divisions
•  Academic Affairs
•  Taxonomy of Programs (TOP), 6th
  Edition (left links)
• CB 21 coding
• http//www.cccbsi.org/bsi-rubric-information

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Webinar Training for CB 21 coding

• Nov 17 1000 -1115
• Nov 18 200-315
• Dec. 3 1000-1115

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ASCCC events (Register asap)

• Fall Plenary Session November 12 14 Ontario
• (Teaching Institute) Equity Diversity Feb 19-20
  Anaheim
• Voc. Leadership Mar 11-13 Napa
• Accreditation Mar 19-20 Newport Beach
• Spring Plenary Session Apr 15-17 SFO
• Faculty Leadership June 17-19 San Diego
• Curriculum July 8-10 Santa Clara