Events and Meetings

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!

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. 

We sincerely appreciate your interest and dedication to this important professional development and learning opportunity. The ASCCC is planning future events themed around trauma-informed practices in education and would love to see you in the near future. We thank you for your understanding. 

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 presents the 2022 Career and Noncredit Education Institute, held at the Westin South Coast Plaza and in Pathable's Virtual Event Platform*, May 12-14, 2022

*subject to change*.

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is hosting the 2021 Academic Academy - Virtual Event

Are you a faculty, staff member, or administrator at a community college, CSU, or UC who wants to improve student transfer?  Join the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, in collaboration with the RP Group, for the virtual 2021 Academic Academy being held online October 7-8, 2021. The theme is Enhancing Transfer in the Higher Education System. The program includes general and breakout sessions intended to raise awareness of broad perspectives and transfer experiences, provide updates on transfer efforts within the California Community Colleges and university partners, and explore ways to improve student transfer, with an emphasis on strategies for closing opportunity and transfer gaps for students least likely to transfer. Connect with colleagues, engage in discussion, and identify individual and collective actions that can be taken to improve student transfer experiences. 

The event will take place in the virtual event platform Pathable.  All attendees will receive an email prior to the event with a unique user login.  The platform works with email as your user id, so please make sure all attendees emails are their actual emails.  If you are an admin and are registering a group of people, please make sure you are prepared with each persons unique email.  Please use chrome as your browser as it has the best functionality with the program.

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 5:00pm

When: October 7-8, 2021 *dates and time subject to change*

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

Interruptions in education are not new. Snow days, extreme heat, floods, and earthquakes can all lead to temporary school closures. In addition, California’s students may experience the extended disruption and devastating impact of fires. But a global pandemic requiring social distancing and the sudden cessation of traditional classroom instruction for an undefined time period is a force so impactful that our evolution is forced – is it education’s Big Bang, where we will emerge anew? Or is it our Ice Age, leading to the extinction of select species and the rapid evolution of the survivors? This year’s ASCCC Academic Academy will explore the impact of our recent history on the future of education. Join us as we explore the use of open and online approaches to finding ways to redefine instruction and assessment, create more equitable learning environments, address long-standing inequities exacerbated by reliance on technology, and improve the success of all students.

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

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, in partnership with the Student Senate for California Community Colleges, RP Group, and the CCC Chancellor's Office, is hosting its 2019 Academic Academy with a focus on student experience in Long Beach, CA. on the Queen Mary September 13-14, 2019 located at 11126 Queens Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90802.  Faculty and students are invited to attend the conference, which will discuss topics including Guided Pathways, student equity, technology, and diversifying of faculty.

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.

Event Date: September 14-15, 2018

Event Location: Embassy Suites by Hilton South San Francisco Airport | 250 Gateway Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080.

Navigating New Frontiers: Faculty Leadership in Guided Pathways

Guided pathways is not just another initiative; it is a framework for a comprehensive redesign of our colleges. The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges’ Guided Pathways Academy will empower faculty to move from designing and planning to implementation. Each college’s framework must honor its mission, vision, and culture by developing unique solutions to support the success of its students. Envision your next steps through an invigorating and collaborative institute focused on faculty developed tools and resources to support local guided pathways efforts.

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

Online ticket sales have ended.  If you are interested in attending Academic Academy, please come to the registration desk onsite Friday October 7th at 9am.

This professional development opportunity is focused on counseling and instructional faculty. The intention of this program is to highlight effective practices and cultivate a collaborative experience in service to the diverse population of students in our community colleges.

Specific topics include:

• Faculty partnerships
• Educational pathways
• CTE Workforce Taskforce recommendations
• Equity and cultural competency.

The program will emphasize creating faculty partnerships in credit or noncredit to improve the collegiate experience and academic achievement of our students.  These partnerships will further improve collaborative projects and initiatives by integrating classroom instruction, counseling, and student services. The Academy can inform and spark conversations around the role for all faculty in the following   areas: creation and implementation of guided pathways of learning, recommendations of the Workforce Task Force, and other initiatives.

Additional breakouts will address ongoing student equity planning and cultural competency in relation to the development of inclusive campuses to ensure student and faculty success.

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.

The Academic Senate will hold a CTE Leadership Institute on May 6-7, 2016, at the DoubleTree Hilton in Anaheim. This year will bring an intense focus on career and technical education at the federal, state, and local level. In our CCC system, the Board of Governors’ Task Force on Workforce, Job Creation, and a Strong Economy recently released its recommendations.  By the time this event takes place in May, implementation conversations will be well underway and input from faculty statewide will be needed.

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.

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 2015 Academic Academy is scheduled for March 13-14, 2015 at the Westin South Coast Plaza located at 686 Anton Blvd, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Registration begins Friday at 9AM and the program commences at 10AM; the conference will end Saturday at 3PM.

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.