CCL President’s Report from the CIO Board Meeting 3-16-2016 – Meghan Chen

On behalf of CCL, I attended the March 16 Chief Instruction Officers’(CIO) meeting at the Chancellor’s Office. Here are some highlights that may interest: as you peruse my notes, please think about how your library can participate in or advocate for student success, at whatever level you and your library can. When I listen to what’s going on, I think about the role CCL can play, so if you think of something, please let your regional rep or me know.

Academic Senate California Community Colleges (ASCCC) Report to the CIOs– excerpted from John Freitas’ report

1. All ASCCC President’s Updates are available at http://asccc.org/president-update.

2.  2016-2017 Governor’s Budget (From the ASCCC President’s Report)

On January 7, 2016, Governor Brown released his initial 2016-17 state budget proposal.  While this proposed budget did not contain everything we might have wished for, it is once again a very strong budget for the system. Some of the highlights include the following budget augmentations:

• $29.3 million for COLA (.47% increase)

• $114.7 million for access and enrollment growth (2% increase)

• $248 million for workforce and career pathways

• $1.8 million for apprenticeship programs

• $30 million for basic skills programs

• No augmentation for SSSP or Equity, Cal Grant B financial aid, or additional faculty hiring.

Note that this proposal is only the first step in a long budget process that will continue until June. ASCCC will work with the Chancellor’s Office and other groups to advocate for additional funding in various areas.

3. AB 798 (Bonilla, 2015) created a grant-based program for local promotion of open educational resources in order to lower student textbook costs.  This program requires the passage of a formal resolution by the local academic senate endorsing the college’s application in order for a college to apply for the grant. The ASCCC President provided model resolution language for local senates to consider using when crafting their own resolution in support of seeking AB 798 grants for their colleges.

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CIO and ASCCC are planning a series of technical assistance trainings focusing on roles of curriculum committees and CIO.  This approach of shared planning will be similar to the Leagues’ model of CEOs presenting with ASCCC on shared governance. IEPI addresses campus-wide planning and institutional issues, not focused on curriculum.

Systems Advisory Committee on Curriculum (SACC) Update – working on delineating the role of SACC as an advisory committee or a recommending body. It is necessary to have legal counsel present at SACC meetings especially when topics pertaining to Title 5 language revision are discussed. SACC will send the Program and Course Approval Handbook (PCAH) to the Board of Governors (BOG) for approval in May. The guidelines and technical pieces will follow as separate components so that changes can be made to those documents without needing to revise the entire handbook.

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Accreditation – Quality Focused Essay (QFE) is a new requirement for colleges to write about improvements they think they need to do. ACCJC is requesting people from different groups to help with their trainings, but they have not gone through the official groups’ presidents to appoint participants, for example, not approaching ASCCC, CIO, and other organizations directly. What about CCL? Shouldn’t a representative from this group contribute to the training’s content particularly since evaluation teams may not always have a librarian or library manager on the team?

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Career and Technical Education (CTE)

1. 2016 CTE Leadership Academy

Event Date: May 5, 2016 - 8:00am to May 7, 2016 - 5:00pm

Location: DoubleTree Hilton - Anaheim

Deadline to Register/Application Deadline: April 11, 2016

 

1. CTE workshops April 16 at Mt. SAC. CTE faculty especially adjunct faculty need to be engaged; ASCCC outreach to CTE faculty for their input. Other issues that need to be figured out: solo CTE faculty can’t be released/reassigned, and it is very difficult for them to make time to be engaged in all the CTE initiatives now as they have responsibilities for industry/business advisors involvement, state/national accreditations of certain CTE programs (e.g., Nursing, Dental Assistant, Paralegal).

 

1. California Community College Association for Occupational Education (CCCAOE) – from Julius Sokenu, President-Elect

Spring 2016 Conference April 20-22, Hyatt Regency Sacramento. CCCAOE Board – a goal is to send someone to a national conference each year on policy and advocacy (e.g., in Washington, DC). Registration is open now, but it’s past the early bird rate. Should CCL send a representative to this conference and consider increasing our group’s connection to CTE?

• Encouraging Congress people to advocate for and support CTE students – to incorporate priorities from the field: i.e., keep Perkins funding structure and don’t do competitive funds in Perkins.
• Advocated for Perkins funding to $1.3 billion (from current $1.1 billion).
• Align HEOA and Perkins leg language or otherwise bifurcated paths that will always require efforts of alignment. (career path between CCC and K-12)

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Trailer Bill Review – from Craig Justice, CIO liaison to CCCAOE

Doing What Matters (DWM) funding and regional consortium - $200 million for CTE programs, and both the manner of funding and the regional consortium need to work well for colleges that actually offer and teach the programs. These two issues remain a concern. The new language will be sunshined soon, and CEOs and CIOs need to voice their views. There is concern that the colleges have a significant share of the money in a manner that’s crafted to our local offerings. The higher priority sectors do not match with the regions.

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Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) Update

Dual Enrollment – latest CCCCO legal opinion on AB 288 and CCAP, dated March 11, 2016.

BA Degree will allow for credit for prior learning. Prior Learning Credit for Veterans – could use credit by exam. CCCCO needs to share a list of courses from 72 Districts. OEI will offer credit for prior learning; it’s being developed.

UC will offer transfer pathways with another ten degrees ($2.6 million)

Basic Skills Initiative – Transformational Grant $60 million; there will be a guide to help colleges apply for the funding.