Academic Senate For California Community Colleges — Dan Crump

Reported by Dan Crump, American River College

As I noted in the November Outlook, the Chancellor’s Office is funding a Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant program as a continuing effort to improve student access and success.  Planning grants were awarded to American River, Berkeley City, Butte, Chaffey, Lake Tahoe, Lassen, Marin, Miracosta, Orange Coast, Palomar, Pasadena City, Rio Hondo, Saddleback, San Diego Centers for Education and Technology (Continuing Education), Santa Ana, Santa Monica, and Taft.  Implementation grants were awarded to Canyons, Miracosta, San Diego Centers for Education and Technology, San Jose City, and West Hills Lemoore.  Librarians are the project directors for many of the projects.  The ASCCC, LLRPAC and CCL are very supportive of Open Education Resources (OER) and the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degrees (ZTC) and all will be following the progress of these grants with great interest.