Whereas matriculation is a keystone of community college reform, and
Whereas matriculation promotes and sustains the efforts of students in reaching their educational goals, and
Whereas it has been recognized from the outset that counselors are centrally involved in the following processes:
facilitating admissions
providing orientation to college programs and procedures
providing pre-enrollment assessment and counseling
offering support services and referral
following student progress, and
Whereas these functions require sufficient staffing, and
Whereas in spite of significant matriculation funding released to the community colleges in 1988, the January 1989 Interim Report to the Board of Governors on matriculation has found the following dismal results:
only 14% of colleges have provided training related to matriculation to counselors or advisers
Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges support the funding of counseling services to meet the mandates of matriculation, and
Resolved that the Academic Senate urge local senates to raise this issue on their own campuses to encourage more progress in implementing the counseling component of matriculation.