Charge: The Curriculum Committee is charged
to make recommendations to the Executive Committee
on issues related to the development, review and
implementation of curriculum both at the college
and state level. By resolution, the committee
is charged to have members representing students,
articulation officers, librarians and noncredit
faculty. Under the direction of the President,
the chair and/or members of the committee provide
technical assistance to local college curriculum
committees, academic senates and the faculty in
general.
Goal 1:
The Academic Senate will increase and make
more visible our service to local senates
Outcomes: Increased visibility of the
Academic Senate and local academic senate
to all faculty on the 109 California Community
Colleges
Objectives:
1.1
Examine and improve services to member
senates
Res. No.
Status of
Work
Provide technical assistance to local senates
and curriculum committees as needed.
Ongoing. See Committee Charge
Monitor curriculum website for updates
as needed.
Ongoing. Supports Committee Charge
Maintain regular and effective communications
with local curriculum committees, academic
senates, and faculty in general, including
local committee use of web sites for curriculum
review.
Ongoing. Supports Committee Charge
1.2
Increase personal contacts with each
campus
No Committee responsibilities under this
objective
1.3
Reach out to new faculty and new faculty
leaders
No Committee responsibilities under this
objective
1.4
Affirm the
importance of strong local senates
Urge the Chief Instructional
Officers Council to include the Academic
Senate in its efforts to develop guidelines
for catalogs.
S96 9.01
Completed.
Resolution S96 9.01 was shared with the CCCCIO
Executive Committee and a Rostrum article
reminding faculty of their role in the catalog
was written in spring, 2006.
Urge the Board of Governors
to authorize that noncredit courses and programs
be reviewed and approved following the local
curriculum process and without the need for
the Chancellor's Office approval.
F97 9.12
Deferred.
Presently, this resolution is being handled
by ASCCC representation at SACC.
Remind local senates to
ensure that local review of courses offered
via distance education be accorded the appropriate
scrutiny to guarantee that they are consistent
with the course outline of record; and urge
local senates to ensure that transcripts
and college records not differentiate distance
education sections from other sections.
F05 9.04
Completed. This was addressed in Plenary breakout sessions
in both fall 2005 and spring 2006.
Goal
2: Strengthen our Leadership in Academic
and Professional Matters on behalf of the
Faculty of California's Community Colleges
Outcomes: Increased external recognition
Objectives:
2.1
Serve faculty
who serve students
Res.
No.
Status of
Work
Work with the Chancellor’s
Office to research, evaluate, and report
on the efforts of prerequisite scrutiny on
relevant institutional practices and student
outcomes and report to the body at a future
session.
F00 9.05
Found not feasible.
2.2
Generate
resources for local faculty
Continue to
revise and update the Curriculum Institute
Binder
Ongoing.
Supports the Committee Charge. Binder
significantly modified for 2006 CI.
Continue to
work with the Educational Policies Committee
and Basic Skills Committee to provide a position
for the Executive Committee on the issue
of
transfer degrees and whether there should
be local requirements beyond that required
by their transfer institutions including
recent
concerns raised regarding the transfer degree,
AS degree and Math/English requirement for
graduation
15.02 F00
In
Progress.
A task force is addressing this issue.
Develop a guide for local
senates and curriculum committees to use
when approving the offering of a course in
a reduced timeframe of less than half of
a term; and explore instituting a requirement
that local curriculum committees approve
the teaching of courses in reduced timeframes
in a manner similar to the requirement that
curriculum committees approve teaching courses
through technologically-mediated instruction.
F04 9.04
Not Addressed.
Update papers that have
been affected by recent changes in regulations
and state practices, including but not limited
to, "Good Practices for the Implementation
of Prerequisites" and "Curriculum
Committee Review of Distance Learning Courses
and Sections."
S98 9.06
Ongoing.
Information gathering and impending changes
have delayed paper revisions. Recommendation
for next year’s committee: establish
a schedule for paper revisions and identify
where more data is needed.
Support efforts to improve
the retention rate in mathematics and to
study the effects of mathematics as a gatekeeper/gateway
course, and support research into a variety
of approaches to mathematics, including a
multicultural, global approach, such as ethno-mathematics.
S00 9.07
Found not feasible.
Convene a task force that
includes counseling faculty to review Title
5 §55002 Standards and Criteria for
college orientation and guidance courses,
and specifically address the issues of Associate
degree versus non degree credit as they apply
to college orientation and guidance courses
and the Chancellor's Office curriculum review
process for these courses.
S00 9.11
Completed.
Remove from the Program
and Course Approval Handbook the following
sentence: "It is not the intent of the
regulation that basic skills or ESL courses
generally be eligible to be so designated
for course repetition]" (page 36); and
also seek to amend the immediate subsequent
sentence in the handbook as follows: "In
basic skills and ESL courses, where further
skill needs to be developed, generally an
additional course level should be offered
wherever practicable."
F01 9.06
Recommendations
for Next Year’s Committee.
Refer to SACC Recommend removing.
Provide guidance to local
senates regarding policies and practices
for teaching content area courses, other
than foreign language courses, in languages
other than English
S01 9.03
Ongoing.
A survey was conducted on this subject, but no further action will be taken until
the legality of such courses is determined.
Research the issue of not-for-credit
courses duplicating degree credit, non-degree
credit, and non-credit courses and conduct
a breakout at the Fall 2002 Plenary Session
to provide clarification and direction of
course offerings in these curriculum modes.
S02 9.04
Deferred. Recommend this
be addressed by a Non-Credit Ad Hoc Committee
in the future.
Encourage local college
senates to adopt curriculum policies designed
to ensure the integrity of courses in which
any classroom time is replaced by online
instruction or delivery by some other modality.
S05 9.04R
Completed.
This was addressed in Plenary breakout sessions
in both fall 2005 and spring 2006.
Recommend that reading
competency be required of all community college
graduates, that we examine the inconsistencies
associated with reading requirements for
graduation, and that we take a position to
promote reading as essential to all forms
of student success; and provide a phase in
period of two to three years to allow for
research on the impact of a reading competency
requirement on students with diagnosed/documented
reading disabilities.
S05 13.06R
Deferred.
The website shows this resolution assigned to the “President, Basic
Skills Committee, Curriculum Committee.”
Work with the System Office
to review all policies, procedures, laws,
and legislation related to pre-requisites,
co-requisites, and advisories, including
the current validation process, prepare recommendations
for modifying the current validation process;
and review all recommendations, including
possible changes to Title 5, at the Spring
2007 Plenary Session and, if appropriate,
seek to implement desired changes.
S06 9.05
Ongoing.
A survey in 2005 on prerequisites revealed
the possible need for change. Recommendations
for Next Year’s Committee: Work with
SACC to complete the assigned tasks, proactively
involving the System Office.
2.3
Confirm our
focus on students in our decision-making
Explore ways to encourage
colleges to establish faculty-taught courses
that instruct students in principles of effective
governance, and report on the findings with
recommendations relevant to the establishment
of academic courses to be communicated to
all local senates.
F00 9.02
Deferred.
Status on website: “Assigned to Curriculum,
Student Senate Liaison. Status: Ongoing Discussions
are underway with student organizations.” This
resolution may have to wait on the disposition
of relative student organizations within
the CCC system.
2.4
Build relationships
with other groups
Work with Occupational
Education to reaffirm support for the Career
Ladders Initiative and work to ensure that
it be implemented in ways that strengthen
our educational programs, and work to ensure
that further funds are located (via foundation,
state funds, and partnerships) and that any
"redirection" of support toward
the initiative be in the nature of targeting
within existing approaches and grant specifications,
not a redirection of scarce funds from existing
programs and services.
F01 9.04
Ongoing.
The ASCCC President, Occupational Education,
and specific Exec members are working with
Linda Collins - and Curriculum will be
appraised, as issues require committee
involvement.
Support the
continued involvement of faculty in SACC
and utilize this committee as a means of
effecting systemwide changes as desired by
the body and of facilitating a greater understanding
of all aspects of curriculum.
Encourage
SACC to investigate and recommend ways to
streamline and improve the processes for
program approval, as well as recommend appropriate
changes to the Program and Course Approval
Handbook.
S06 9.06
S06 9.07
Recommendations
for Next Year’s Committee:
Work closely
with the faculty members of SACC. Members
of the ASCCC Curriculum Committee and SACC
faculty need to be in contact so that they
can work together to achieve the goals of
ASCCC.
Goal
3: The Academic Senate will provide leadership
and professional development opportunities
to faculty and other constituent groups
Outcomes: Increased number of informed
faculty
Objectives:
3.1
Enhance professional
development opportunities
Res.
No.
Status of
Work
Plan/execute
in conjunction with the Executive Committee
and ASCCC Office, the Curriculum Institute
for 2005.
Ongoing.
The 2006 Institute took place at Hayes Mansion.
Work with Chancellor's
Office to strengthen local curriculum committees'
knowledge and skills about approval processes,
regulations, etc.
Ongoing.
One such example is the System Advisory Committee
on Curriculum (SACC); another is the role
that the SO is invited to play at the Curriculum
Institute.
3.2
Increase
professional development funding
Ongoing.
Four examples from 04/05: (1) Through discussion
with Barbara Beno, the ACCJC Executive
Director, who issued a statement in strong
support of professional development funding;
(2) SACC, with support from the SO, has
placed an emphasis on local faculty training
and on technical assistance from its office
on matters related to program approval
and the establishment of stand-alone courses;
(3) the 2005 Curriculum Institute expanded
professional involvement to include staff
who support the curriculum process as well
as a tiered system that included faculty
and staff who skills might be described
as novice, intermediate and advanced; (4)
The SO has made a commitment to increase
funding.
