CACCRAO Annual Conference

What’s coming: Revenues continue to decline▪ $7.8 billion deficit has grown to $9.6 billion

Propositions likely to fail▪ Would increase deficit to $15.4 billion

May Revise will be delayed▪ Currently expected on May 28

Revisiting 2009-10 budget will be protracted

ARRA funds provide some (limited) help

LAO Proposals: Fees double or more Reduced funding rate for “recreational”

coursesCategorical flexibility proposals were

rejected but likely to be back on the table

Advocacy continues: The California Community Colleges are the key to the state’s economic recovery

Sponsored bills: AB 386 (Ruskin) – Captioning of audio-

visual materials AB 669 (Fong) – Residency for foster youth

Other legislation: AB 440 (Beall) – Create a transfer degree AB 37 (Furutani) – Request that colleges

and universities confer an honorary degree upon any person who was unable to complete due to the internment of Japanese Americans in 1942

Textbooks AB 317 (Solario) – Requirements for

publishers, bookstores and those who select books (adopters)

SB 48 (Alquist) – Require publishers to make books available in electronic format by 2020

SB 216 (Liu) – Require colleges to post textbook information on Web site at least 30 days before start of class

SB 386 (Runner) – Require faculty to provide “cost-benefit analysis” before adopting new version of a book within 3 years

Concurrent Enrollment AB 78 (Portantino) – Allow ESL and Basic

Skills, eliminate principal’s recommendation, eliminate 5% summer cap, change “low enrollment priority” to “not a high priority”

AB 555 (Furutani) – Create pilot to allow 5 districts (Kern, Long Beach, LA, Los Rios, San Jose-Evergreen) to partner with schools to concurrently enroll students for academic or CTE courses at the college or high school and collect apportionment for closed classes

Assessment and Placement AB 371 (Fuller) – Spot bill to encourage

CCCs to provide incentives for students to enroll in Basic Skills in their first year

AB 1008 (Block) – Require the Board of Governors to convene a working group to consider statewide assessments and report by June 30, 2010

50% Law AB 1157 (Block) – Change to 52% and

include counselors

Veterans and Military SB 361 (Runner) – Clarify that enrollment priority

(SB 272, 2007) applies only to vets with honorable discharge; adds Reserve and National Guard

AB 38 (Salas) – Residency for anyone eligible for Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (new GI Bill) with “domicile” in California

AB 1569 (Committee on Veterans Affairs) – Entitle dependents of military stationed in CA to resident status for fee purposes as long as student is continuously enrolled; retain resident classification for military when reassigned outside the state if continuously enrolled; conforms to change in federal law

Veterans and Military - 2 SB 646 (Denham) – Prohibit charging any

fees to honorably discharged CA resident vets or National Guard who have exhausted federal veterans benefits; promotes “catalog rights” for vets who re-enroll within 1 year of discharge

SB 15 (Cedillo) – Extend Cal Grant Entitlement to vets who enlisted within 1 year of high school graduation and enroll in college within 2 years of discharge

Veterans and Military - 3 SB 611 (Correa) – Allow Cal Grant A

award to be used for non-tuition expenses if tuition is covered by GI Bill

SB 815 (Cogdill) – Create a non-need financial aid program for active duty and veteran National Guard of $500 plus tuition and fees

Expelled students AB 1400 (Fong) – Authorize colleges to

share information about students expelled for specific offenses

Title IX Discrimination SB 195 (Florez) – Require colleges to

certify that every activity complies with federal law prohibiting sex discrimination and impose a civil penalty of $50,000 for false certification

Transportation Fee AB 774 (Cook) – Add Rio Hondo and

Riveside to districts authorized to charge mandatory transportation fee upon vote of students for public transit

SB 518 (Lowenthal) – Expected to extend transportation fee authority statewide

Nonresident capital outlay fee AB 947 (Brownley) -- Extend international

student fee to all nonresidents

Recommendations for comment: Pre-requisites1.Change Title 5 to only require content review

(Model District Policy on Pre-Requisites) for validation of a pre-requisite.

2.Support for statewide pre-requisites for specific courses to be phased in over time. A significant question is what things need to be considered in the development of any statewide proposal.

Services3.Support ongoing system efforts to increase

matriculation funding. Promote a desirable counselor: student ratio (but not require).

Recommendations (continued): 50% Law4. Investigate what a reasonable percentage might be

should counselors and librarians be included with "classroom faculty" for purposes of calculating 50% law compliance (AB1157 a possible vehicle).

5. Investigate the effect of removing the "non-classroom" loads of counselors and librarians from both the numerator and denominator in 50% Law calculations, which would then inform whether or not this might be brought forward as a consensus proposal.

APG to conclude by June 30

Withdrawal and Repetition Board of Governors First Reading on May 4;

action scheduled July 13; likely effective September 1

Defining the AA and AS Degrees AS for areas of science, technology,

engineering, math and CTE AA for all others Effective for Fall 2011 Also First Reading May 4; action scheduled

July 13

Proposed by UC President Mark Yudof Charge is to identify reforms or strategies to

increase the number of CCC students who: Are transfer-ready Are offered and accept transfer Succeed at the receiving 4-year university

Preliminary report by August 1, 2009 CCC representatives:

Steering Committee: Morgan Lynn Planning Committee: Linda Michalowski and Jeff

Spano Working Team: Linda Lacy, Jane Patton, Michelle

Pilati, Randy Lawson, Morgan Lynn and Linda Michalowski

21 completed for 2008-09 Improvements in place: Data given to

colleges, Self-Evaluation format, Report Template, team training materials, team and college Evaluation Forms

System Advisory Committee on Student Services is working on further improvements for 2009-10

Chancellor’s Office will have all 2008-09 reports to colleges within 60 days of the end of the visit

Team composition and cancellations has been greatest challenge

Memorandum sent March 28 Funds may be spent until September 30,

2009 Applies to EOPS, CARE, DSPS,

Matriculation and BFAP-Student Financial Aid Administration

Memo includes reminder that implementation of GASB-45 Advisory is on hold; categorical funds can only be used for current employees

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