STEPHANIE LOWDEAN, CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTIONCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES

CHANCELLOR’S OFFICE

Chancellor’s Office Hottest Topics:

A Story About Trains

3/25/2011

This Train has Left the Station

Course Scheduling Issues Mission appropriateness Focus Transfer, Career Technical, and Basic Skills

Apportionment Issues Noncredit Physical Education and Dance

Noncredit title 5 regulations Require CCCCO approval for all noncredit courses Continue to require approval for Career

Development/College Preparation (SB361) certificates and Adult High School Diploma programs

Delegate authority to districts to locally approve all other noncredit certificates except apprenticeships

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She’ll be Coming Around the Mountain

Curriculum Inventory implementation 2011-12 Review of credit and noncredit programs Credit certificates less than 18 semester units Need data on prerequisites and content review

Course Data Elements (June 2011) Repeatability C-ID Descriptors

Prerequisites Data Reporting (2011-12)Title IV Review

USDOE and the Last Day of Attendance in Distance Education

3/25/2011

She’ll be Coming Around the Mountain

Course repetition and withdrawal Proposed limit to number of enrollments

allowed for apportionmentAudit in 2011-2012

TBA Hours attendance accounting Apportionment for noncredit PE and dance

Conversion of credit courses to fee-based offerings Community services offerings Contract education AB 515 (Brownley) CCC extension programs

3/25/2011

She’ll be Coming Around the Mountain

Program and Course Approval Handbook 4th Edition to include Curriculum Inventory Module 3 on noncredit curriculum development New and discontinued forms

Course modifications (CCC-480/580) Noncredit program modifications Apprenticeships (credit or noncredit) CCC-520 will discontinue July 1, 2011

Contracts with CTE Providers Title 5, chapter 6, subchapter 7, commencing with

55600 refers to contracts with private postsecondary schools

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Scheduled Stop

Prerequisites and corequisites based on Content Review

Academic Senate training on methodsThe District Plan – title 5 section 55003(c)

Method to identify courses to which prerequisites in basic skills will improve student success

How will you assure that courses will be “reasonably” available Sections of the prerequisite courses Other courses that do not require prerequisites or

corequisites How will curriculum committee be trained? How will you monitor the impact of the new

prerequisites on student progress toward academic goals?

3/25/2011

All Aboard!

SB 1440 Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act

Ed Code §66746 Discipline faculty from CCC and CSU systems developing

Transfer Model Curriculum (TMC) Community colleges must offer (and CSU must accept

students who complete) an associate degree that includes: 18+ semester units / 27 + quarter units in a major or area of

emphasis Completion of the CSU GE or IGETC pattern 60 transferable semester (90 quarter) units GPA of 2.0

No additional graduation requirements

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Pathway to Transfer

Transfer Model

Curriculum (TMC)

Local curriculum

process

CCCCO approval

Similar program or

major at CSU

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CCCCO approves/assigns program control

number

CCC control number &

requirements sent to CSU

CSU degree program code

identified

Student applies to CSU with CCC control number

Similar program or major

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Chancellor’s Office Approval Process

Degrees must be approved as AA-T or AS-T AS-T for STEM and CTE disciplines AA-T for others

Forms have been modified to add these degree types CCC-501 New Credit Program proposals CCC-510 Substantial Modification to Approved

Credit ProgramColleges that align the AA-T or AS-T to an

approved TMC will have fewer requirements for the narrative that is attached to the degree proposal in the Curriculum Inventory

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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC

Criteria A. Appropriateness to Mission (all required)

1. Statement of Program Goals and Objectives

2. Catalog Description3. Program Requirements4. Background and Rationale

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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC

Criteria B. Need6. Place of Program in Curriculum/Similar

Programs Required for CTE only

Attachment: Local Labor / Job Market Data

Regional consortium review is not required

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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC

Required only for new CTE discipline at your college:8. Labor Market Information & Analysis9. Employer Survey10.Explanation of Employer Relationship11.List of Members of Advisory Committee12.Recommendations of Advisory Committee Attachment: Employer Survey Attachment: Minutes of Key Meetings

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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC

Criteria C. Curriculum StandardsThe only required documentation for transfer

applicability is the completed TMC template listing the college’s existing courses that align with the C-ID designated courses.

Course outlines of record for major courses should be attached to the appropriate courses in the Curriculum Inventory.

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AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC

Criteria D-Adequate Resources: Include a general statement in regard to

facilities, additional faculty, and new equipment or library resources.

Criteria E-Compliance: Include a general statement in regard to

enrollment restrictions and licensing or accreditation standards.

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(CCC-510)AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC

CCC-510 if college has approved certificate or degree in same 4-digit T.O.P. code

4. Discussion of background and rationale is not optional.

6. Place of proposed change in the curriculum – relation to existing program and options; relation to other programs at your college.

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(CCC-510) AA-T or AS-T aligns with TMC

Required for CTE only Attachment: Local Labor / Job Market Data Regional consortium review is not required

Criteria C. Curriculum StandardsThe only required documentation for transfer

applicability is the completed TMC template listing the college’s existing courses that align with the C-ID designated courses.

Course outlines of record for major courses should be attached to the appropriate courses in the Curriculum Inventory.

3/25/2011

Documentation for TMC Template

TMC templates require this documentation in order of preference when specifying required courses at your college.1. Assigned C-ID designation or2. Assigned TCSU number or3. Appropriate report from ASSIST showing

the required transferability status (e.g., CSU transferable, general education, or major preparation at CSU)

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Documentation for TMC Template

Training Webinar Monday, March 28, 2011 1:00 – 3:00 pm

Agenda Review and demonstrate the TMC Template for

Mathematics Share first approved AA-T in Communication

Studies! TMC template Documentation for courses without C-ID or TCSU

descriptor

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AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC

Submit as new (CCC-501) or substantially modified (CCC-510) degree with transfer status

All narrative items required for proposal of a new associate degree with transfer status except Articulation with multiple institutions will not be

required when CSU Degree Program Code existsPLUS

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These proposals require documentation that all required courses are applicable to the major at the local CSU campus. Articulation with multiple baccalaureate institutions is not required.

PLUS

AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC

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AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC

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The college must provide strong evidence that If a TMC exists, explain why it is not the best

preparation for students who transfer to the CSU campus; or

if no TMC exists, the local degree is best preparation for students who transfer to a specific major at CSU campuses offering that major; and

the community college discipline faculty have consulted with CSU discipline faculty to confirm that the lower-division coursework provides preparation for the CSU major.

AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC

Acceptable documentation in order of preference:1. Assigned C-ID designation or2. Assigned TCSU number or3. Appropriate report from ASSIST showing the

required transferability status (e.g., CSU transferable, general education, or major preparation at CSU)

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AA-T or AS-T Not Aligned with TMC

In addition, the proposal must include a letter from CSU discipline chair or administrator that confirms collaboration with CSU faculty and assures that: Locally-designated courses will provide

lower-division major preparation and Students will not be required to repeat a

course that is similar to a specific course that counted toward the associate degree for transfer.

3/25/2011

Stop at the Crossing!(before you call the Chancellor’s Office)

http://www.cccco.edu/1440 Instructions for AA-T and AS-T Degree

(link on right side of page) Instructions TMC templates (Word forms) Revised CCC-501/CCC-510 forms

http://www.asccc.org/1440

http://curriculum.cccco.edu/

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