Transfer Committee

The 2007-08 committee will continue the efforts of the 2006-07 committee, supporting existing efforts to improve transfer and articulation, continuing to monitor related legislation, and seeking new ways to improve transfer in the CCC.

Membership
Michelle Pilati, Chair, Psychology, Rio Hondo College
Julie Adams, Executive Director, Academic Senate for California Community Collegs
Bernie Day, Articulation Office, Foothill College
Roberta Delgado, Transfer Center Coordinator, Santa Rosa Junior College
Dave DeGroot, Articulation Officer, Allan Hancock College
Dan Nannini, Transfer Center Coordinator, Santa Monica College

Meetings Dates
CCCConfer – Monday, August 27, 2007, 10:30-12:00
CCCConfer – Tuesday, September 25, 10-11:30.
CCCConfer – Tuesday, October 23, 10-11:30.
CCCConfer – Tuesday, November 6, 10-11:30.
CCCConfer – Tuesday, December 11, 10-11:30.

Goals and Strategic Plan for 2007-2008 (Click here to download the Strategic Plan in Word)

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 and Priority
	Review committee charge	Exec Action 8/2007	To be addressed. Committee will consider updating the committee charge to reflect its current work.
1.2	Increase personal contacts with each campus
1.3	Reach out to new faculty and new faculty leaders
1.4	Affirm the importance of strong local senates
	Disavow the participation of, the opinions expressed by, and the conclusions reached on academic and professional matters by any community college faculty member not appointed by the Academic Senate who serves on an intersegmental project or activity with other CSU and/or UC faculty members who are serving at the behest of their own senates; remind ICAS partners, all systems’ administrators, and legislators that mutual respect of faculty appointing processes is essential and that faculty not appointed through the Academic Senate process do not speak on behalf of the system on academic and professional matters.	S07 15.01	In Progress. This sentiment has been shared with our ICAS partners and the established group to address LDTP issues has repeated this. As faculty may be unclear as to when they should be appointed by ASCCC, further information on this issue is needed. A Rostrum article will be written to increase awareness. Priority: High
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 and Priority
2.2	Generate resources for local faculty
	Research the practices used by colleges for awarding AP credit to be sure that the process is driven by faculty, benefits students, and is inclusive of all disciplines faculty and review such research conducted by local senates and develop a best practices paper	F06 4.02	In Progress. Committee to continue monitoring actions taken by CSU and UC. Local AP practices to be the basis of a breakout at Fall 2007 session. Information gathering to involve communication, possibly, with the College Board. Priority: High
	Work with ICAS partners to ensure that it be intersegmental discipline faculty who review the AP cut scores and applicability for their disciplines; that adequate time is given for research to be conducted for determining the most appropriate cut scores; and clarify how AP exam scores are applied to grant unit and/or subject credit for purposes that vary among segments.	S07 9.06	In Progress. Committee to continue monitoring actions taken by CSU and UC. Local AP practices to be the basis of a breakout at Fall 2007 session. Information gathering to involve communication, possibly, with the College Board. Priority: High
	Research the implications of the International Baccalaureate for prospective community college students share findings with ICAS and urge the Academic Senates of the University of California and the California State Universities to make explicit and accessible all of their systemwide and local policies or determinations of equivalency.	F06 9.09	In Progress. Additional research is needed in order to determine how best to address this resolution. Committee will determine how to address this resolution after an initial phase of information-gathering. Priority: Medium
2.3	Confirm our focus on students in our decision-making
	Monitor legislation to ensure faculty primacy in curricular decisions. Monitor and seek to remedy any segmental transfer initiatives that penalize or impose unwarranted selectivity on CCC students. Ensure students have all information necessary (e.g., catalogues)	F03 6.02 S04 15.01 S94 4.01	In Progress. Continue monitoring. Priority: Medium
	Build into any new course articulation system full intersegmental participation and identify funding for such a system	F05 4.01	In Progress. Temporarily completed with the SO funding of the intersegmental C-ID Project until 2009 when additional fiscal resources will need to be identified if the CCC need for a common numbering mechanism continues. Priority: Low; C-ID Project is in initial phases. This committee will assist as needed.
	Increase efforts to educate the CSU system about the specific flaws with the implementation of LDTP; and urge the CSU system to jointly resolve the flaws that have been identified to the mutual satisfaction of representatives from CCC and CSU System Offices, the Academic Senate for the California Community Colleges, articulation officers, and transfer professionals.	S07 4.01	In Progress. This is being addressed by a committee consisting of CSU and UC faculty. Priority: Low
	Oppose any changes in GE requirements for transfer that increase the units needed to complete GE, decrease the courses a student may select as applicable to GE, and otherwise hinder transfer; and urge the UC to adopt a policy that, in the absence of hardship, permits certification of IGETC after transfer.	S07 9.04	In Progress. This is likely completed, in part, upon acceptance of the IGETC Notes soon to be seen at ICAS. Priority: Low
2.4	Build relationships with other groups
	Include representatives of CIAC and TCDA to build links and coordinate responses to legislation Provide information with Exec and the field regarding LDTP, ASSIST, CAN & C-ID Work with the System Office to develop strategies to make the community college participation in ASSIST meaningful and effective	F05 4.03	Ongoing.
	Work with the System Office and with our intersegmental partners through the ICAS to develop a pilot program to create a course numbering system for individual courses	F06 4.01	In Progress. The C-ID Project has begun initial processes to complete this resolution. Priority: Low
	Aid in the widespread dissemination of the document “Transfer: Recommended Guidelines” and provide a breakout at an appropriate Academic Senate-sponsored venue to familiarize faculty and local senates with the principles and recommendations contained in the document.	F06 4.05	In Progress. While this was addressed at a breakout in S07, a follow-up Rostrum is planned. Priority: Medium
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 and Priority
3.2	Increase professional development funding