1983

The Academic Senate of California Community Colleges recommends that the following guidelines be adhered to in the governance, administration, and instruction of any course offerings in which the delivery of the instruction in the content of a community college course relies on a telecommunications system or systems for the majority of the instructional time allocated to such courses and to courses similar in content but different in the means of delivering the instruction.

We seem to hear more every day about declining academic standards. In January, the newspapers reported that only about 62 percent of candidates for certificates to teach in California elementary and secondary schools passed tests in basic skills. Many community college faculty are concerned about standards in their institutions, in part because in the late 1960s and the 1970s standards became associated, in the minds of many faculty members and students, with personal rigidity rather than academic rigor.