Events and Meetings

The Curriculum Committee is pleased to announce that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is once again partnering with the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to hold Curriculum Regional meetings.  

The North meeting will be at Skyline College on Friday, 21 October; the South meeting will be held at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut on Saturday, 22 October.

The morning will consist of updates on the latest news on from both the Chancellor’s Office and the Academic Senate on statewide curriculum issues, including the PCAH, C-ID/ADTs, the Curriculum Inventory, and the UC Transfer Pathways.  The afternoon will consist of breakout sessions covering a variety of topics ranging from curriculum basics, distance education, non-credit, and dual enrollment.  We encourage you to bring a team of curriculum chairs, senate presidents, articulation officers, curriculum specialists, and administrators so that your college curriculum team can gather as much information as possible. 

The programs will run 9:30 to 3:00.  Registration is required and the deadline is October 14th.

We look forward to seeing at the regionals!

Dolores Davison, Chair

ASCCC Curriculum Committee

All registrations will be on-site only!

 No shows or cancellations after the deadline will be billed $25. If you are unable to attend please email events [at] asccc.org before the cancellation deadline. Cancellations must be received in writing.

All registrations will be on-site only.

Los Angeles,  CA:

WHERE:          LATTC, 400 W Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90015

MEETING LOCATION: Cafeteria - located on the northernmost end of campus.

PARKING LOCATION: The lot for parking is directly across the street from the campus. See maps below under registration. The security will not be citing for parking on 10/21 so parking will be open and no permits will be needed.

WHEN:          October 21,  2016; 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Registration/Cancellation Deadline: October 14,  2016

Cancellation Policy:

No shows or cancellations after the deadline will be billed $25. If you are unable to attend please email events [at] asccc.org before the cancellation deadline. Cancellations must be received in writing.

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.

The 2015-16 Noncredit Committee would like to hold another set of regional meetings this spring.  The intent is to share information with the field about noncredit basics and the potential for an expansion of noncredit to address objectives within Student Equity Plans, Student Success and Support Program Plans, Adult Education Block Grants, the Basic Skills Initiative, and the Workforce Taskforce recommendations. 

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and the Online Education Committee are pleased to announce the 2016 Online Education Regional Meetings!

Are you interested in Online Education?  Do you have questions about accreditation, accessibility, and effective contact in online courses? These questions, and more, will be answered at the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Online Education Regionals, being held on Friday, April 8 at College of San Mateo and Saturday, April 9 at Glendale College.  The program will include a general session on “What to Expect When You’re Expecting…An Accreditation Visiting Team”, updates on the Online Education Initiative, and other important information for faculty, staff, and administrators who work in online education (and even those who do not!).  Breakouts will involve a follow up panel to the accreditation general session with colleagues who have recently gone through an accreditation visit, accessibility, effective practices in online education, and more.  Registration is free; more information, including the full program, can be found here:

If you would like to attend the OE Regional Meeting - we will be doing any further registrations on-site.

Parking permits will be emailed to those who register.  Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.  

There is no charge to attend the OE Regional Meetings
Glendale Room Location Kreider Hall:  

Campus Map:  http://www.glendale.edu/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=917

Please check back for room update.

Looking forward to seeing you in April!
Dolores Davison
Chair, ASCCC Online Education Committee

CANCELLATIONS

There is no charge to attend the OE Regional.  We do require that you cancel your registration if you can not attend. Any cancellations submitted after April 2nd will be assessed a $25 cancellation fee. All no-shows will also be assessed the $25 cancellation fee.  Refunds will not be granted for cancellations after the cancellation date or for no-shows.   Please review the Senate Cancellation Policy here.

Please contact regionalmeetings@asccc.org in writing to cancel your registration.

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and the Online Education Committee are pleased to announce the 2016 Online Education Regional Meetings!

Are you interested in Online Education?  Do you have questions about accreditation, accessibility, and effective contact in online courses? These questions, and more, will be answered at the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Online Education Regionals, being held on Friday, April 8 at College of San Mateo and Saturday, April 9 at Glendale College.  The program will include a general session on “What to Expect When You’re Expecting…An Accreditation Visiting Team”, updates on the Online Education Initiative, and other important information for faculty, staff, and administrators who work in online education (and even those who do not!).  Breakouts will involve a follow up panel to the accreditation general session with colleagues who have recently gone through an accreditation visit, accessibility, effective practices in online education, and more.  Registration is free; more information, including the full program, can be found here:

If you would like to attend the OE Regional Meeting - we will be doing any further registrations on-site.

There is not charge to attend the OE Regional Meeting.

Parking permits will be emailed to those who register.  Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.  

The College of San Mateo meeting will be at the College Heights Room, Building 10 (Campus Center) on the 4th floor.  The campus map is here:  http://collegeofsanmateo.edu/map/docs/CSMCampusMap.pdf

Looking forward to seeing you in April!
Dolores Davison
Chair, ASCCC Online Education Committee

CANCELLATIONS

There is no charge to attend the OE Regional.  We do require that you cancel your registration if you can not attend.  Any cancellations submitted after April 1st will be assessed a $25 cancellation fee. All no-shows will also be assessed the $25 cancellation fee.  Refunds will not be granted for cancellations after the cancellation date or for no-shows.   Please review the Senate Cancellation Policy here.

 Please contact regionalmeetings@asccc.org in writing to cancel your registration.

This meeting has been cancelled.

Please contact The Academic Senate for information on attending other CTE Regional Meetings at 916-445-4753x102.

Please check back for specific information, which will be posted once we have confirmed College locations.

Please check back for specific information, which will be posted once we have confirmed College locations.

Please check back for specific information, which will be posted once we have confirmed College locations.

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is excited to announce our first ever Noncredit Curriculum Regional Meetings! The meetings will be Friday, March 20 at Foothill College and Saturday, March 21 at Cerritos College. In the 15-16 academic year, the funding for some noncredit courses (Career Development and College Preparation) will be equal to credit courses. Due to these funding changes, CTE initiatives and the restructuring of adult and continuing education, colleges will need to use this opportunity to examine their noncredit and credit courses and assess how they can best serve the needs of their students.

We will begin the day with a presentation on the nuts and bolts of noncredit curriculum and programs. John Stanskas, the Senate’s AB 86 workgroup representative, will offer some insights as to how funding changes can impact opportunities for our students in basics skills and CTE programs. After lunch, we will ask college teams to discuss the viability and opportunity of noncredit instruction to benefit their students and how their college’s decision-making processes may impact the discussion at their colleges. Curriculum committee members and participants from colleges with noncredit programs will be on hand to provide guidance about the opportunities and challenges in noncredit. The goal of this session is for participants to draft a working plan to help colleges make informed decisions about the appropriate curricular offerings at their colleges.

We encourage you to bring a team of faculty, senate leaders, curriculum chairs, and administrators who are making decisions about building their noncredit programs and evaluating curriculum.  Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required so we can ensure appropriate lunch accommodations. When you register, please identify which of your team members are faculty and which are administrators.

Warmest regards,

Debbie Klein, At-large Representative

Noncredit Committee Chair

Michelle Grimes-Hillman, South Representative

Curriculum Committee Chair

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and the Online Education Committee are pleased to announce that the first ever Online Education Regional Meetings!  The meetings will be Friday, March 20 in the north and Saturday, March 21 in the south.  Meeting, location and registration information can be found below. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required.  We encourage you to bring teams from your colleges, including senate presidents, curriculum chairs, online education faculty, distance education coordinators, instructional designers and administrators that oversee online education.  Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. 

The morning will be dedicated to general sessions with presentations and updates from the Chancellor’s Office and the Academic Senate, including information on curriculum processes for online courses, accreditation, regulations, professional development and effective practices for institutions.  In the afternoon, breakout sessions will focus on range of issues including the “nuts and bolts” of online education, effective practices for quality online instruction, and online education “landmines”.  If you cannot attend in person, we will be live webcasting the afternoon breakout sessions.  So, come and join us for a great day of important and timely information.  I hope to see you there!

John Freitas, Area C Representative

ASCCC Online Education Committee Chair

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.