Academic Senate For California Community Colleges (ASCCC)-Report
Contributed by Dan Crump (American River College) ASCCC Executive Committee,
SB 1052 and 1053 (passed by the Legislature last session) has received funding and the Open Education Resources Council, with three faculty members from each public higher education segment (CCC, CSU, UC) has begun work on the initial task outlined in SB 1052 – assembling a list of 50 lower division courses for which affordable, open source textbooks and related materials can be identified or developed. For the text of the bills, go to
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1052_bill_20120927_chaptered.pdf and http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1051-1100/sb_1053_bill_20120927_chaptered.pdf
At their November meeting, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges approved three grants with great impact---Online Education Initiative, Common Assessment Initiative, and Educational Planning Initiative. There are steering committees for each of the initiatives and the ASCCC has appointed faculty to each of them. For details of the grants, please refer to item 1.2 of the BOG Agenda packet---they are on pages labelled 18-21 in the document.
Finally, the ASCCC will be holding its Spring Plenary Session at the SFO Westin from April 10-12. The preliminary program is on the ASCCC website at http://asccc.org/spring2014/spring-program. We will also be having elections for the officers and several other positions on the Executive Committee.
LIBRARY AND LEARNING RESOURCES ADVISORY COMMITTEE (LLRAC)---reported by Dan Crump
The Annual Data Survey for the 2012-3 was sent out in mid-October and is now overdue---mea culpa, I haven’t finished mine yet!
The Committee now has appointments from all the constituent groups and hopes to have a meeting in February or March.