Committee
Charge The Academic Senate Ad Hoc Committee on
Noncredit will serve as a resource to the President
and Executive Committee on issues related to instruction,
counseling, student services, and program development
in noncredit and the role of faculty in noncredit
instruction as related to governance and local
participation in academic and professional activities.
Membership
2008-2009 Ian Walton,
Mathematics, Mission College
Marsha Elliott, Basic Skills, North Orange Co CCD/Noncredit
Gregory Keech, ESL (credit/noncredit), City College
of San Francisco
Sara McKinnon, ESL and Basic Skills, College of
Marin
Sylvia Ramirez, ESL, Mira Costa College
Andrea Sibley-Smith, DSPS, North Orange County
CCD, Noncredit
2008 - 2009 Meeting Dates
TBD
Resources on Noncredit
Senate Resources:
The Senate’s primary document on noncredit
is “The
Role of Noncredit in the California Community
Colleges” The Academic Senate
adopted this paper at its fall 2006 plenary session.
Its previous adopted document (now quite
out of date) on the issue was Leon P. Baradat’s “Report
on the Credit/Noncredit Policy,” adopted
by the Senate at its fall 1980 Plenary Session
(Leon Baradat served as president of the Senate
in 1978-79).
Those interested in Academic Senate resolutions
regarding noncredit instruction can search all
resolutions via the “Resolutions” tab
on the Academic Senate home page.
Other Resources:
The “Noncredit Alignment Project” was
a 2005-06 grant-funded initiative undertaken
by the Chancellor’s Office as a part of
the development of the system strategic plan.
The project’s goal was to articulate the
ways in which closer alignment of noncredit and
credit programs, especially in noncredit career-technical
and basic skills programs, can provide educational
opportunity to students for whom no other educational
opportunities are available. Multiple documents
were assembled together under the title “A
Learner-Centered Curriculum for All Students:
The Report of the Noncredit Alignment Project,
October 2006.”
