Guiding Principles that Inform Project Goals and Activities

The initial phase of the C-ID System will seek to address the continuing and the unmet needs of the state, the system, and the faculty by promoting goals and activities that meet these guiding principles. The C-ID System will:

  1. augment rather than reduce the number of useful descriptors for intrasegmental use among and between CCCs, as well as intersegmental use by all transfer partners—UC, CSU, and independents—by capitalizing on residual CAN resources, efforts, and networks;
  2. enable more efficient intrasegmental movement for students seeking to complete their technical preparation or transfer goals;
  3. extend assignment of identifiers, at the behest of articulation officers, to AA/AS courses meeting degree requirements as well as to major preparation patterns and additional course sequences;
  4. provide universal descriptors for statewide benefit rather than for incidental local applications;
  5. support robust articulation, by providing universally used descriptors to ensure UC and CSU departments of the genuine rigor and comparability of community college courses submitted for articulation throughout the California postsecondary education system;
  6. maintain and extend intersegmental participation to faculty within UC, CSU, and the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU) and support future CSU and UC transfer initiatives, including the LDTP and UC Streamlining initiatives;
  7. retain crucial opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration; and
  8. engage in on-going evaluation and improvement of its own operational policies and processes.