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Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has long supported student equity as a part of student success, but many colleges continue to have inequitable student success rates;

Whereas, Research into effective practices in student equity has been conducted since the Academic Senate's last review of such research; and

Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges is a key player in the Basic Skills Initiative, and extensive research has been done on basic skills inequities and effective practices that increase student success;

Whereas, Co-curricular programs significantly impact student transfer success and access by enabling students to attain scholarships and transfer acceptance to universities and professional schools (i.e., law school and medical school);

Whereas, Many universities are using `holistic' application processes in response to the June 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision that ruled that the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions process was unconstitutional, and consequently, co-curricular participation directly impacts a student's transfer success;

Whereas Title 5 requires each California community college to submit a staffing and salary report, and

Whereas the local academic senates should be, but often are not, aware of the statistics in that report, and

Whereas the current Chancellor's Office staffing and salary report is often unreadable and not understandable,

Resolved that the Academic Senate work with the Chancellor's Office to develop a new clear and readable mechanism for reporting salary and staffing information, and

Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges supports the principle of the separation of church and state;

Whereas, The California community colleges serve a diverse population, including people with a wide range of religious beliefs and practices;

Whereas, Given that our mission is to provide open access to education, it is not within the scope of the California community college mission to represent students, faculty, staff, or the wider community in religious matters; and

Whereas, In 1991, when credit and noncredit attendance counting were changed from the Average Daily Attendance (ADA) system to FTES, credit attendance counting was allowed five scheduling patterns (semester length-census, less than semester length-census, irregularly scheduled-positive attendance, open entry/open exit-positive attendance, and independent study/work experience), while noncredit attendance counting was limited to only two scheduling patterns (open entry/open exit - positive attendance and independent study/work experience);

Whereas, As stated in Education Code 60850, all California public high school seniors must pass the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) in order to receive a high school diploma;

Whereas, It is estimated that one out of ten (approximately 48,000 in 2006) California high school seniors will not pass the CAHSEE;

Whereas, Many of these students who have not received their high school diploma will be attending California community colleges; and

Whereas, Systemwide unhappiness with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) has been expressed by the Chief Instructional Officers (CCCCIO), by members of the Board of Governors, by the Faculty Association for California Community Colleges (FACCC), by resolution at the March 2006 conference of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), and by many resolutions of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges;

Resolved that the Academic Senate reaffirm its position that the Fund for Instructional Improvement (FII) and other Chancellor's Office grants have sign-off by the local academic senate president.

Whereas recent IRS policy discourages colleges from employing their own students and reduces the opportunity for students to gain the benefit of work experience, and

Whereas colleges are not required to pay social security taxes on student hourly wages, and these contributions are not withheld from student hourly checks, and

Whereas a recent IRS ruling has defined a student's status for the exemption to be a minimum of 12 units, and

Whereas the Academic Senate adopted resolutions 20.10 (Fall 94) and 1.2 (Spring 95) urging its Executive Committee to conduct a survey of student material fees as a result of concerns raised by CalSACC and Saddleback College Student Body relating to instructional and student representation fees, and

Whereas the Chancellor's Office provided all colleges with several legal opinions (M 94-27) and (M 96-28) on community college student fees in response to the issues raised, as well as specific procedures for challenging alleged illegal student fees, and