1992

Whereas Education Code section 87470 provides that district governing boards may employ appropriately qualified individuals to perform instructional services under contract with public or private agencies, and

Whereas Education Code section 87470 also provides that service under such contracts will not count toward tenure unless the person is subsequently employed as a contract employee and has served more than 75% of the immediately preceding year performing services under such a contract with a public or private agency, and

Whereas community college districts are becoming more involved in contract education, and

Whereas many courses offered under a contract with a local, regional, or statewide business or industry are not-for-credit programs, and

Whereas every safeguard possible must be taken to insure that a district's dependence on not-for-credit instructors hired for their specific expertise will positively affect students enrolled in existing credit and noncredit courses, and

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges accept the paper as amended "Graduate Students as Interns in the California Community Colleges". (See Appendix B)

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges request local senates to develop procedures to ensure that individuals employed to teach credit courses in international education programs (Study Abroad) meet the state minimum qualifications for faculty as established by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.

Whereas matriculation should be a powerful method for increasing the rate of student success, and

Whereas matriculation will have a significant impact on prerequisites and the transfer curriculum at local campuses, and

Whereas there is great concern that matriculation is becoming a compliance process with little effect on student success, and

Whereas there has been enough experience at various colleges to permit wide publication of the biggest problems and most effective techniques,

Whereas instructional services profiles provided by Learning Resource Centers are an integral factor in student success and in accommodating for diverse learning styles, and

Whereas the instructional services areas have been the most severely devastated by budgetary reductions since the passage of Proposition 13,

Whereas fifteen executive committee members serve over a hundred college and district senates, and

Whereas the number of colleges and the geographical considerations present the Executive Committee with a serious challenge and significant level of responsibility to serve the constituents of the local academic senates, and

Whereas the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges has collaborated with representatives of the California Community Colleges Trustees on the development of a set of guidelines which would clarify the intent of the framers of the Title 5 regulations strengthening local senates, and

Whereas those collegial discussions have resulted in a document which can be considered, as presented, for joint release as a Memorandum of Understanding between the Academic Senate and the Community College Trustees,

Resolved that the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges direct the Executive Committee to examine the committee draft report titled "Towards an Intersegmental Curriculum Process: a Review and Recommendations on IGETC," and distribute the report to academic senate presidents and other community college faculty in a timely manner.(See Appendix H: "Towards an Intersegmental Curriculum Process: A Review and Recommendations on IGETC")

Resolved the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges accept the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Critical Thinking/English Composition stating the concerns and problems faculty have reported to us over the last year, and

Resolved that this report be disseminated to local senate presidents, the Executive Committee, Standards and Practices Committee, and other appropriate faculty. (See Appendix I: CCC Faculty Concerns about the IGETC Critical Thinking/English Composition Requirement)