Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges encourage local senates to ensure that their articulation officer serve as a resource to the campus curriculum committee, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges urge local senates to ensure that support of an articulation officer be a campus priority, including the support of the articulation function and clerical assistance.
Whereas, "Transfer: The Next Generation," proposed by the California Education Round Table to evaluate current transfer "processes and mechanisms" with the established goal of "greater coordination and, possibly, consolidation" of current transfer-related and articulation related projects, has been conceived and designed without any input from the Academic Senates of the California Community Colleges, University of California (UC), and California State University (CSU);
Whereas, The community colleges are committed to help all students whose goals are to transfer to a four-year university to develop their academic potentials by providing necessary resources;
Whereas, Little comprehensive research has been published regarding the academic needs and support systems necessary for the underprepared California community college student athletes;
Whereas, California community college students have long expressed a desire for a more easily comprehensible and simplified course numbering system for transfer and major preparation courses;
Whereas, AB 1603, relating to common course numbering, called for the California Articulation Number (CAN) System to be a third numbering system for transfer and major preparation courses;
Whereas the Academic Senate's Fall 1995 paper "Toward a Common Course Numbering System" recommends the use of an intra-segmental numbering system to address concerns raised in SB 450 and to ease transfer for community college students between and among community colleges, and
Whereas the Board of Governors has awarded a Fund for Instructional Improvement grant to develop for non-transfer courses a Community College Articulation Numbering (CCAN) system (modeled after the California Articulation Numbering (CAN) system currently in use for transfer courses), and
Whereas transfer and articulation are priorities as determined by Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates and the Board of Governors, and
Whereas there is a need for a system of seamless transfer in the majors, and
Whereas the major core curriculum must serve as a basis of articulation agreements emphasizing the commonalities of that core, and
Whereas the attainment of these agreements require faculty-to-faculty dialogues and obligations of existing articulation systems (e.g., ASSIST and CAN),
Whereas fully articulated lower division programs greatly facilitate transfer, allowing students to know exactly what courses to take to be fully prepared, and
Whereas transfer admission guarantee agreements, like those available with University of California Davis, have proven to be an effective method for promoting transfer,
Resolved that the Academic Senate urge the Board of Governors to seek systemwide facilitation of transfer admission guarantee agreements from community colleges to University of California campuses.
Whereas fully articulated major preparation programs greatly promote transfer, reducing the need for students to retake courses, shortening time-to-degree, and eliminating waste of public funds, and
Whereas the California Articulation Number (CAN) System is the only statewide system of articulating major preparation courses, and
Whereas even the CAN System does not provide for articulation of complete major preparation programs,
Whereas the University of California and California Community Colleges systems have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to increase transfers to the University of California, and
Whereas the MOU has specified that more attention be paid to articulation, and
Whereas current proposed Budget Change Proposals (BCPs) encourage partnerships,
Resolved that the Academic Senate recommend to local senates that the positions of Articulation Officer and Transfer Center Director be faculty positions, and
Whereas the California Articulation Number (CAN) system serves students by articulating undergraduate courses, and
Whereas the CAN Council plans to expand the current number of courses,
Resolved that the Academic Senate support the CAN Council proposal to expand in the following areas by listing courses as:
1) lower division courses required for major preparation
2) lower division baccalaureate level elective courses commonly used in majors,
3) other intersegmental courses that count for lower division preparation.