Distance Learning Quality

Whereas the COIN report Choosing the Future: An Action Agenda for Community Colleges recommends technological delivery systems for education that are inappropriate for the educationally disadvantaged, and

Whereas many students at the community colleges historically come from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds, and

Whereas the extensive research on persistence in higher education strongly supports student involvement with the institution and the faculty,

Resolved that the Academic Senate urge local senates to exercise their Title 5 and AB 1725 rights over curriculum quality and design in distance learning.