Add Established At-Risk Student Groups to Exemptions under Board of Governors Fee Waiver Policy

Spring
2014
Resolution Number
13.02
 
Contact
Assigned to
President
Category
General Concerns
Status
In Progress
Status Report

We have tried on this numerous times, so far without success. It ma be unfeasible at this time.

Whereas, In January 2014, the Board of Governors (BOG) of the California Community Colleges approved new minimum academic and progress standards that a student qualifying for a BOG fee waiver must meet in order to retain eligibility, but allowed an exemption to those standards for foster youth;

Whereas, Based on a California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office simulation report[1] on a cohort from 2011, as many as 31,342 (4.8% Extended Opportunities Programs and Services (EOPS); 4.7% California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs); 6% Disabled Student Programs and Services (DSPS) at-risk students could be subject to loss of the fee waiver for failure to meet the new academic and progress standards;

Whereas, Students who participate in EOPS/CARE, CalWorks, and DSPS programs, as well as veterans, qualify as at-risk students and therefore should receive the same exemptions from the new academic and progress standards as foster youth; and

Whereas, Students who participate in EOPS/CARE, CalWorks, and DSPS programs are already held to established academic and progress standards through such instruments as the EOPS Mutual Responsibility Contract;

Resolved, That the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges recommend that the Board of Governors amend §58621 of Title 5 to grant EOPS/CARE, CalWORKs, DSPS students, and veterans the same exemptions to the new academic and progress standards currently granted for foster youth.

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[1] Analysis presented to the Board of Governors by the Chancellor’s Office, March 3-4 2014

http://extranet.cccco.edu/Portals/1/ExecutiveOffice/Board/2014_agendas/March/3_3_BOG_Fee_Waiver.pdf