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Theme: Curriculum Unmasked: Revitalize, Revamp and Reignite!

Are you ready to embark on a journey of collaboration, innovation, inspiration, and transformation in the realm of California Community College curriculum? Pack your bags and climb aboard! The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) invites you to attend the 2024 Curriculum Institute – Hybrid Event on July 10-13, 2024 held in beautiful Pasadena, California, at the Pasadena Convention Center!

The ASCCC is proud to host the 2023 Accreditation Institute September 29, 2023. The Institute will provide guidance and support to colleges that are gathering evidence, writing their Institutional Self Evaluation Report (ISER), or preparing for a comprehensive site visit. This year's theme, "Rising up to Meet the New Standards: Continuing the Pursuit of Excellence and Equity," will allow participants to become familiar with the new ACCJC standards​ while continuing their important work of equity. The Institute will feature a variety of speakers and panelists, including representatives from the ACCJC, as well as experts in accreditation and equity. There will also be opportunities for networking and collaboration.

The ASCCC has made the decision to shift the Accreditation Institute to a fully virtual program taking place on Friday, September 29, 2023. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Event Dates
Wed, Jul 12 2023, 2pm - Sat, Jul 15 2023 10:45am

Delivering on the Promise of Higher Education Through California Community Colleges Curriculum

Note: This event has been cancelled. 

Due to low enrollment for the Accreditation, the ASCCC had to make the decision to cancel the event at this time. We wanted to respect the time of all participants, attendees and presenters alike, and did not feel that we would be able to do so with the enrollment numbers we had.

The ASCCC will focus on updating the accreditation paper to address the recently assigned resolution and will continue the conversation at a future event. Additional information will come out in the form of a Rostrum article in April, as well as updates to the paper on Effective Practices in Accreditation. 

ASCCC presents the 2022 Curriculum Institute, held at the Riverside Convention Center, Riverside, CA. and in Pathable's Virtual Event Platform*, July 6-9, 2022

*subject to change*

ASCCC along with ACCJC presents the 2022 Accreditation Institute, February 25-26, 2022

Where: Pathable Virtual Event Platform

Virtual Registration ends February 22nd, 2022

Accreditation work is an ongoing process that is challenging at the best of times. The recent pandemic made these efforts even more daunting. No matter where your college is in the accreditation process, you are not alone! Join with a community of your peers for the 2022 Academic Senate for California Community College’s Accreditation Institute. This event is designed to build our community of support as we meet standards for continuous quality improvement.

The 2021 Curriculum Institute will be taking place as an online Virtual Event.  

The 2020 Curriculum Institute will be taking place as an online Virtual Event.  

Join us for a dynamic Accreditation Institute in La Jolla, CA on February 21 and 22, 2020.  As all of our colleges navigate the implementation of Guided Pathways, this institute will focus on how the work of Guided Pathways, with a foundation in equity, aligns to the accreditation standards. Guided Pathways and Accreditation both focus on improving systems and systemic assessment. There are significant changes being made at our colleges and at ACCJC that reflect our shared intent to improve our systems.  We encourage ALOs, Accreditation and Guided Pathways leads and interested faculty, staff, administration and students to attend.  Learn about how the outcomes and dialog produced through transformative Guided Pathways work can provide evidence of how colleges are meeting and/or exceeding the standards through evaluating and improving our institutions with a focus on student success.

The 2020 Accreditation Institute will be taking place at the San Diego Marriott La Jolla - La Jolla, California.

Where: Marriott La Jolla Hotel, 4240 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037

When: February 21-22, 2020

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The 2019 Curriculum Institute will take place at the Hyatt San Francisco Airport on July 10-13, 2019 located at 1333 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame, CA 94010. The institute will cover a multitude of curriculum issues including the implementation of AB 705, Title 5 changes, the Student Centered Funding Formula, quantitative reasoning, guided pathways, UC Transfer Pathways, curriculum streamlining, noncredit, CTE, credit for prior learning, the Chancellor’s Office Curriculum Inventory (COCI), and much more. The pre-session takes place on Wednesday, July 10. Colleges are encouraged to bring a team of individuals, and for the first time, colleges will be able to bring up to seven team members. College teams should include the curriculum chair, CIO, and a curriculum specialist, so make sure to reserve your spot now! More information coming soon.

The 2019 Career and Noncredit Education Institute will be held April 25-27, 2019 at the DoubleTree by Hilton San Diego Mission Valley located at 7450 Hazard Center Drive, San Diego, CA  92108. Colleges are encouraged to send teams of practitioners and leaders to include career education faculty, noncredit faculty, counselors, senate presidents, and faculty and administrative leaders involved in career education, noncredit education, and AEBG.

Event Date: May 3-5, 2018

Event Location: The Westin South Coast Plaza 686 Anton Blvd. Costa Mesa, CA 92626.

The 2018 Career and Noncredit Education Institute will be held May 3-5, 2018. 

With the creation of the Strong Workforce Program, there has been increased focus on career education and noncredit education. Furthermore, the rollout of the first Integrated Plan for SSSP (credit and noncredit), Basic Skills, and Student Equity has served to encourage collaboration across our colleges and a bridging of programs to better serve all of the students in our community college system. The ASCCC Career and Noncredit Education Institute is the first ASCCC event to bring faculty together from these areas to collaborate on a statewide level on how best to integrate the services, practices and instruction of these areas. Presentations will cover topics in areas such as career education, noncredit education, counseling and student services, Adult Education Block Grant (AEBG), and apprenticeship. Colleges are encouraged to send teams of practitioners and leaders to include career education faculty, noncredit faculty, counselors, senate presidents, and faculty and administrative leaders involved in career education, noncredit education, and AEBG.

Event Date: February 23-24, 2018

Event Location: Wyndam Anaheim – Garden Grove | 12021 Harbor Blvd, Garden Grove, CA 92840.

Higher education is undergoing many changes such as student placement and assessment processes, increased student services, and even consideration of a guided pathways framework. Likewise, accreditation requirements and practices are undergoing significant change. Accreditation is no longer an event that occurs once every six years to prove compliance; it is a process that requires annual consideration and broad participation to ensure that the education and services provided to our students are of high quality and value to the community and public at large. Whether your college is gathering evidence, in the process of writing an Institutional Self Evaluation Report, or preparing for a comprehensive site visit, the Academic Senate for California Community College’s Accreditation Institute will provide guidance and support. Accreditation is an opportunity to share everything that our colleges do well and to identify areas where improvement can be made. This year’s institute, while embracing change, is focused on understanding accreditation so that participants are empowered and energized to take ownership of accreditation. New this year, is a pre-session sponsored by the ACCJC. There will be two trainings: one, a new evaluator training for faculty and the other, new Accreditation Liaison Officer Training.

The 2017 Curriculum Institute will be held at the Riverside Convention Center 3637 Fifth Street, Riverside, CA 92501 on July 12 - 15, 2017.

Sponsored by the Chancellor's Office through Doing What Matters for Jobs and the Economy, the Academic Senate will hold a CTE Leadership Institute on May 5-6, 2017, at the San Jose Marriott. This event will provide CTE faculty with the opportunity to engage in key policy conversations through their interaction with representatives of the task force, by learning about the implications of policy decisions on local programs and courses, and in participating in breakout sessions to better understand the college processes including topics on leadership, curriculum design, course repetition, and effective program advocacy. Registration is now open and additional information including hotel, travel, and a preliminary program is posted on our event site.

The San Jose Marriott is the host hotel for the CTE Leadership Institute held May 5-6 2017! The San Jose Marriott is located at 301 S Market St, San Jose, CA 95113. Driving directions can be found here. For those flying, the San Jose Airport is located 3 miles from the hotel.

Thanks to a grant by the Chancellor's Office Workforce and Economic Development Doing What Matters, the ASCCC is able to offer free registration to ASCCC CTE Liaisons and Counselors and one day hotel stay.  Register for the event using the code you received.  If you did not receive a code, please send an email to info [at] asccc.org.  Then reserve a room via the link under hotel and travel.  The hotel will require that you secure the room with a credit card.  Once you check into your room, the charges will be moved to our master account.  Finally, please note that if you do not cancel your registration by the deadline, you will be charged $50.  

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The 2017 Accreditation Institute will take place at the Napa Valley Marriott: 3425 Solano Avenue, Napa, CA 94558 on February 17 - 18, 2017.

Curriculum is the heart of what we do as educators. The Curriculum Institute is designed to bring together teams of individuals working on curriculum – administrators, faculty, and classified staff – and to provide a platform for interactive learning by all attendees.  Informational presentations, direct training and guidance, and interaction with Chancellor’s Office staff make this Institute the most popular of the Academic Senate events.  Join us in Anaheim to receive updates on important current curriculum topic and to learn ways to improve and develop local curriculum processes.

Pre-session:  The Curriculum Committee is excited to announce that this year’s event will once again include an optional pre-session workshop on Wednesday, July 6. In the afternoon there will be workshops designed for curriculum chairs, administrators, and curriculum specialists who are new to curriculum.  The more seasoned curriculum enthusiast may find it beneficial as well. Additionally, there will be a morning workshop on the CTE Data Unlocked Initiative.  The Data Unlocked workshop will run from 10:00 to 12:00, and the afternoon workshops for curriculum chairs, administrators, and curriculum specialistswill run from 2:00 to 5:00.  The cost of attending the pre-session workshop is included in your registration fee.  However, you must submit a separate registration for the pre-session workshop and be a registered attendee for the Curriculum Institute.
 

Notice for CTE Data Unlocked Pre-Session Attendees:
During this workshop, attendees may be asked to access LaunchBoard data for their colleges.  Therefore, attendees are strongly encouraged to bring their laptops or tablet devices to this workshop.  Also, in order to access LaunchBoard data, attendees must have established a LaunchBoard account prior to July 5. Therefore, attendees are strongly encouraged to sign up for a LaunchBoard account well in advance of the workshop.  To sign up for a LaunchBoard account click Request a password.  To learn more about LaunchBoard go to http://doingwhatmatters.cccco.edu/LaunchBoard.aspx.

Sponsored by the Chancellor's Office through Perkins Leadership Funds, the California Community College Association of Occupational Educators (CCCAOE) and the Academic Senate will again host the CTE Curriculum Academy titled Doing What Matters for CTE Students: A Collaboration of CTE Faculty with EWD and Regional Leaders on January 14-15, 2016 at the Napa Valley Marriott.  

The 2015 Curriculum Institute will take place on July 9 - 11, 2015 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Anaheim-Orange County, located at 100 The City Dr S, Orange, CA 92868.

Healthy Curriculum: Getting your curriculum into shape and keeping it that way

Curriculum is the heart of what we, as educators, do. Keeping our curriculum healthy requires our colleges to stretch, tumble, roll, drill, run, maneuver, and persevere through the curriculum race. Whether you choose to build noncredit endurance, boost Career Technical Education (CTE) potential, venture into innovative activities, or get an overview of heart-healthy curriculum, this year’s curriculum institute will explore topics intended to help everyone keep curriculum healthy in spite of the changing environment in which we live. 

The Academic Senate is holding a CTE Leadership Institute on May 8 - 9, 2015, at the Sheraton in La Jolla. As many of you know, this year there is an intense focus on career and technical education at the federal, state, and local level. In our CCC system, the Board of Governors has formed a task force on Workforce, Job Creation and a Strong Economy, which has been convening regional college and faculty conversations and industry town hall meetings.

President Obama’s recent national challenge focuses on the dire lack of equity in America by calling for open access to higher education for all Americans though community colleges. “A college degree is the surest ticket to the middle class, it ensures you are always employable.” President Barack Obama, January, 2015

This event will provide CTE faculty with the opportunity to engage in key policy conversations through their interaction with representatives of the task force, by learning about the implications of policy decisions on local programs and courses, and in participating in breakout sessions to better understand the college processes including topics on leadership, curriculum design, course repetition, and effective program advocacy.

Whether your college is gathering evidence, writing the self- evaluation, or preparing for a site visit in spring, the Academic Senate for California Community College’s Accreditation Institute will provide guidance and support no matter where you are in the cycle of accreditation.  Even colleges who finished a site visit in fall know that accreditation work never really ends.  At its core, accreditation is the peer-evaluation process we use to improve the education we offer to individuals in our communities and we have affirmed our commitment to the spirit of such processes throughout the years. 

Sponsored by the Chancellor's Office through Perkins Leadership Funds, CCCAOE and the Academic Senate will host the first CTE Curriculum Academy "Doing What Matters for CTE Students: A Collaboration of CTE Faculty with EWD and Regional Leaders" January 15-16, 2015 in Anaheim at The Anaheim Marriott Suites.  

The first day of the event, attendees will participate in a Leadership Academy offered by CCCAOE.  Day two attendees will participate in an intensive CTE Curriculum Academy led by the Academic Senate and geared to help all participants better navigate state and local curriculum processes.  Attendees will receive information and training on topics such as curriculum basics, effective practices for curriculum development, the Program and Course Approval Handbook, C-ID, and other aspects of curriculum development and approval.  Please see the program description for each day below.  

2014 Curriculum Institute will take place on July 10 - 12, 2014 at the Hayes Mansion in San Jose.

Welcome to the 17th annual ASCCC Curriculum Institute! Curriculum is the heart of the California Community College System as we work diligently to serve the diverse needs of our communities. As with anything of such value, the workings of the heart become complicated and we sometimes stumble through the dark. At least here we can stumble through the dark together.