Events and Meetings

The 2015 Curriculum Institute will take place on July 9 - 11, 2015 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Anaheim-Orange County, located at 100 The City Dr S, Orange, CA 92868.

Healthy Curriculum: Getting your curriculum into shape and keeping it that way

Curriculum is the heart of what we, as educators, do. Keeping our curriculum healthy requires our colleges to stretch, tumble, roll, drill, run, maneuver, and persevere through the curriculum race. Whether you choose to build noncredit endurance, boost Career Technical Education (CTE) potential, venture into innovative activities, or get an overview of heart-healthy curriculum, this year’s curriculum institute will explore topics intended to help everyone keep curriculum healthy in spite of the changing environment in which we live. 

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is excited to announce our first ever Noncredit Curriculum Regional Meetings! The meetings will be Friday, March 20 at Foothill College and Saturday, March 21 at Cerritos College. In the 15-16 academic year, the funding for some noncredit courses (Career Development and College Preparation) will be equal to credit courses. Due to these funding changes, CTE initiatives and the restructuring of adult and continuing education, colleges will need to use this opportunity to examine their noncredit and credit courses and assess how they can best serve the needs of their students.

We will begin the day with a presentation on the nuts and bolts of noncredit curriculum and programs. John Stanskas, the Senate’s AB 86 workgroup representative, will offer some insights as to how funding changes can impact opportunities for our students in basics skills and CTE programs. After lunch, we will ask college teams to discuss the viability and opportunity of noncredit instruction to benefit their students and how their college’s decision-making processes may impact the discussion at their colleges. Curriculum committee members and participants from colleges with noncredit programs will be on hand to provide guidance about the opportunities and challenges in noncredit. The goal of this session is for participants to draft a working plan to help colleges make informed decisions about the appropriate curricular offerings at their colleges.

We encourage you to bring a team of faculty, senate leaders, curriculum chairs, and administrators who are making decisions about building their noncredit programs and evaluating curriculum.  Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required so we can ensure appropriate lunch accommodations. When you register, please identify which of your team members are faculty and which are administrators.

Warmest regards,

Debbie Klein, At-large Representative

Noncredit Committee Chair

Michelle Grimes-Hillman, South Representative

Curriculum Committee Chair

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and the Online Education Committee are pleased to announce that the first ever Online Education Regional Meetings!  The meetings will be Friday, March 20 in the north and Saturday, March 21 in the south.  Meeting, location and registration information can be found below. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required.  We encourage you to bring teams from your colleges, including senate presidents, curriculum chairs, online education faculty, distance education coordinators, instructional designers and administrators that oversee online education.  Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided. 

The morning will be dedicated to general sessions with presentations and updates from the Chancellor’s Office and the Academic Senate, including information on curriculum processes for online courses, accreditation, regulations, professional development and effective practices for institutions.  In the afternoon, breakout sessions will focus on range of issues including the “nuts and bolts” of online education, effective practices for quality online instruction, and online education “landmines”.  If you cannot attend in person, we will be live webcasting the afternoon breakout sessions.  So, come and join us for a great day of important and timely information.  I hope to see you there!

John Freitas, Area C Representative

ASCCC Online Education Committee Chair

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is holding two Regional Meetings focusing on Student Equity planning and implementation.

How can colleges best mitigate disproportionate impact? What information and analyses are needed? What interventions would be most helpful? With a November deadline for Student Equity Plans fast approaching, colleges must craft meaningful ways to locally address student access, success, and achievement gaps across student populations.

The meetings are designed to engage faculty and administration in helpful ways to aid local Student Equity Plan development. Additionally, a focus will be on building faculty-driven processes to engage student success and equity.

Single participants and college teams of faculty, CIOs, and CSSOs are encouraged to come. If possible, please bring some of your equity data to reflect on at the meeting.

Topics will address: equity plan requirements, understanding disproportionate impact data, examples of equity plans (and how colleges have built them), reading and responding to data, identifying interventions that work, and monitoring and evaluating plans for effectiveness.

Presenters include:

Debra Sheldon, California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office 

Brad Phillips, Institute for Evidence-Based Change 

Brianna Hays, Institutional Researcher, San Diego Mesa College 

Elaine Kuo, Institutional Researcher, Foothill College 

Carolyn Holcroft, Academic Senate President, Foothill College 

Robert "BJ" Snowden, Academic Senate President, Cosumnes River College 

ASCCC Equity and Diversity Action Committee Members

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is holding two Regional Meetings focusing on Student Equity planning and implementation.

How can colleges best mitigate disproportionate impact? What information and analyses are needed? What interventions would be most helpful? With a November deadline for Student Equity Plans fast approaching, colleges must craft meaningful ways to locally address student access, success, and achievement gaps across student populations.

The meetings are designed to engage faculty and administration in helpful ways to aid local Student Equity Plan development. Additionally, a focus will be on building faculty-driven processes to engage student success and equity.

Single participants and college teams of faculty, CIOs, and CSSOs are encouraged to come. If possible, please bring some of your equity data to reflect on at the meeting.

Topics will address: equity plan requirements, understanding disproportionate impact data, examples of equity plans (and how colleges have built them), reading and responding to data, identifying interventions that work, and monitoring and evaluating plans for effectiveness.

Presenters include:

Debra Sheldon, California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office 

Brad Phillips, Institute for Evidence-Based Change 

Brianna Hays, Institutional Researcher, San Diego Mesa College 

Elaine Kuo, Institutional Researcher, Foothill College 

Carolyn Holcroft, Academic Senate President, Foothill College 

Robert "BJ" Snowden, Academic Senate President, Cosumnes River College 

ASCCC Equity and Diversity Action Committee Members

Register today for the Basic Skills CB21 Meetings!  

2014 Curriculum Institute will take place on July 10 - 12, 2014 at the Hayes Mansion in San Jose.

Welcome to the 17th annual ASCCC Curriculum Institute! Curriculum is the heart of the California Community College System as we work diligently to serve the diverse needs of our communities. As with anything of such value, the workings of the heart become complicated and we sometimes stumble through the dark. At least here we can stumble through the dark together. 

Register today for the CTE Regional Meetings!

Our most popular institute returns to Anaheim in 2013.

In our ongoing commitment to provide leadership development activities to faculty across the state, the newly formed Leadership Development Committee is pleased to announce a series of one-day regional workshops on the topic of college leadership. These workshops, in conjunction with our annual Vocational and Faculty Leadership Institutes, are intended to empower faculty by providing participants with the knowledge, skills, and insights needed to be effective advocates and problem-solvers about issues impacting the education of our students.

In our ongoing commitment to provide leadership development activities to faculty across the state, the newly formed Leadership Development Committee is pleased to announce a series of one-day regional workshops on the topic of college leadership. These workshops, in conjunction with our annual Vocational and Faculty Leadership Institutes, are intended to empower faculty by providing participants with the knowledge, skills, and insights needed to be effective advocates and problem-solvers about issues impacting the education of our students.
 

Biotechnology Instructors All-Hands Conference & Discipline Input Group Meeting
Our third statewide All-Hands meeting features guest speakers and topics requested in your feedback, and for the first time will span for two days!

In our ongoing commitment to provide leadership development activities to faculty across the state, the newly formed Leadership Development Committee is pleased to announce a series of one-day regional workshops on the topic of college leadership. These workshops, in conjunction with our annual Vocational and Faculty Leadership Institutes, are intended to empower faculty by providing participants with the knowledge, skills, and insights needed to be effective advocates and problem-solvers about issues impacting the education of our students.

In our ongoing commitment to provide leadership development activities to faculty across the state, the newly formed Leadership Development Committee is pleased to announce a series of one-day regional workshops on the topic of college leadership. These workshops, in conjunction with our annual Vocational and Faculty Leadership Institutes, are intended to empower faculty by providing participants with the knowledge, skills, and insights needed to be effective advocates and problem-solvers about issues impacting the education of our students.