Consultation with the Chancellor's Office

Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is one of many officially recognized stakeholders responsible for developing and recommending policy and practices for California community colleges;

Whereas, The Consultation Council, as the statewide version of a local participatory governance council, provides the vehicle which all constituent groups have committed to use for statewide governance discussions to make recommendations to the Chancellor;

Whereas, Colleges that have been diligent and conscientious in creating and submitting the Associate in Arts for Transfer (AA-T) Associate in Science for Transfer (AS-T) degree proposals based upon Transfer Model Curricula (TMC) have sometimes found that the rules, deadlines, and templates for submitting TMC-based proposals have been changed in a manner that has confused and frustrated the good faith efforts of the colleges to complete curriculum in a timely manner;

Whereas, The Community College League of California (CCLC) Commission on the Future has met over a period of time and identified large-scale recommendations to promote student success over the next ten years;
Whereas, Processes for promoting student success are clearly academic and professional matters;
Whereas, The Commission on the Future included only two faculty members, neither of whom were appointed by the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges; and

Whereas, SB 1143 (Liu, 2010) directs the Board of Governors “to adopt a plan for promoting and improving student success within the California community colleges and to establish a task force to examine specified best practices and models for accomplishing student success.

Whereas, SB 1143 (Liu, 2010) calls for a task force to make recommendations on student success and the metrics used to measure success; and
Whereas, By law and regulation the advice of the Academic Senate must be relied primarily upon in all academic and professional matters, and student success is an academic and professional matter;

Whereas, The Community College League of California (CCLC) Commission on the Future has met over a period of time and identified recommendations regarding student success for the future actions of the California community colleges over the next ten years; and
Whereas, Many of the recommendations of the Commission on the Future properly fall under the areas defined as “academic and professional matters” as defined in Title 5 regulations and as such are the responsibility of faculty and of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges; and

Whereas, The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Kaplan University to articulate single course sections for participating individual community colleges without consulting the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, articulation officers, counselors, and many other relevant constituent groups;

Whereas, Assembly Bill 2682 (Block, February 19, 2010) “Community colleges: student assessments: pilot project ” formalizes what has generally been referred to as “CCC Assess,” which comprises the establishment of a data warehouse that would allow for centralized access to K-14 student testing data and transcripts, of potentially great usefulness in the application of multiple measures to placement decisions, and the establishment of contracts for systemwide assessment for placement testing options in the areas of English, reading, mathematics, and English as a Second Language that would re

Whereas, The current consultative process as described in AB 1725 has served the California Community College System, its colleges, and its students by providing for well-informed and deliberative collaboration that helps to ensure quality education;

Whereas, The Basic Skills Initiative was initiated and developed by leaders of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges in collaboration with chief instructional officers (CIOs) and chief student services officers (CSSOs) throughout the state, who recognized and promoted the role of faculty in ensuring the success of students;