CACCRAO Annual Conference

 Current status: No cuts, 3% Growth for  Means: -- $165 million in unfunded enrollments -- $33+ million property tax shortfall -- $37 million base shortfall (from 07-08) -- $340 million cash deferrals -- No COLA for 2 years = $570 million loss in spending power

What’s coming:  Revenues continue to decline ▪ $7.8 billion deficit has grown to $9.6 billion  Propositions likely to fail ▪ Would increase deficit to $15.4 billion  May Revise will be delayed ▪ Currently expected on May 28  Revisiting budget will be protracted  ARRA funds provide some (limited) help

 LAO Proposals:  Fees double or more  Reduced funding rate for “recreational” courses  Categorical flexibility proposals were rejected but likely to be back on the table  Advocacy continues: The California Community Colleges are the key to the state’s economic recovery

Sponsored bills:  AB 386 (Ruskin) – Captioning of audio-visual materials  AB 669 (Fong) – Residency for foster youth Other legislation:  AB 440 (Beall) – Create a transfer degree  AB 37 (Furutani) – Request that colleges and universities confer an honorary degree upon any person who was unable to complete due to the internment of Japanese Americans in 1942

 Textbooks  AB 317 (Solario) – Requirements for publishers, bookstores and those who select books (adopters)  SB 48 (Alquist) – Require publishers to make books available in electronic format by 2020  SB 216 (Liu) – Require colleges to post textbook information on Web site at least 30 days before start of class  SB 386 (Runner) – Require faculty to provide “cost- benefit analysis” before adopting new version of a book within 3 years

 Concurrent Enrollment  AB 78 (Portantino) – Allow ESL and Basic Skills, eliminate principal’s recommendation, eliminate 5% summer cap, change “low enrollment priority” to “not a high priority”  AB 555 (Furutani) – Create pilot to allow 5 districts (Kern, Long Beach, LA, Los Rios, San Jose- Evergreen) to partner with schools to concurrently enroll students for academic or CTE courses at the college or high school and collect apportionment for closed classes

 Assessment and Placement  AB 371 (Fuller) – Spot bill to encourage CCCs to provide incentives for students to enroll in Basic Skills in their first year  AB 1008 (Block) – Require the Board of Governors to convene a working group to consider statewide assessments and report by June 30, 2010  50% Law  AB 1157 (Block) – Change to 52% and include counselors

 Veterans and Military  SB 361 (Runner) – Clarify that enrollment priority (SB 272, 2007) applies only to vets with honorable discharge; adds Reserve and National Guard  AB 38 (Salas) – Residency for anyone eligible for Post- 9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (new GI Bill) with “domicile” in California  AB 1569 (Committee on Veterans Affairs) – Entitle dependents of military stationed in CA to resident status for fee purposes as long as student is continuously enrolled; retain resident classification for military when reassigned outside the state if continuously enrolled; conforms to change in federal law

 Veterans and Military - 2  SB 646 (Denham) – Prohibit charging any fees to honorably discharged CA resident vets or National Guard who have exhausted federal veterans benefits; promotes “catalog rights” for vets who re-enroll within 1 year of discharge  SB 15 (Cedillo) – Extend Cal Grant Entitlement to vets who enlisted within 1 year of high school graduation and enroll in college within 2 years of discharge

 Veterans and Military - 3  SB 611 (Correa) – Allow Cal Grant A award to be used for non-tuition expenses if tuition is covered by GI Bill  SB 815 (Cogdill) – Create a non-need financial aid program for active duty and veteran National Guard of $500 plus tuition and fees

 Expelled students  AB 1400 (Fong) – Authorize colleges to share information about students expelled for specific offenses  Title IX Discrimination  SB 195 (Florez) – Require colleges to certify that every activity complies with federal law prohibiting sex discrimination and impose a civil penalty of $50,000 for false certification

 Transportation Fee  AB 774 (Cook) – Add Rio Hondo and Riveside to districts authorized to charge mandatory transportation fee upon vote of students for public transit  SB 518 (Lowenthal) – Expected to extend transportation fee authority statewide  Nonresident capital outlay fee  AB 947 (Brownley) -- Extend international student fee to all nonresidents

 Recommendations for comment:  Pre-requisites 1. Change Title 5 to only require content review (Model District Policy on Pre-Requisites) for validation of a pre-requisite. 2. Support for statewide pre-requisites for specific courses to be phased in over time. A significant question is what things need to be considered in the development of any statewide proposal.  Services 3. Support ongoing system efforts to increase matriculation funding. Promote a desirable counselor: student ratio (but not require).

 Recommendations (continued):  50% Law 4. Investigate what a reasonable percentage might be should counselors and librarians be included with "classroom faculty" for purposes of calculating 50% law compliance (AB1157 a possible vehicle). 5. Investigate the effect of removing the "non-classroom" loads of counselors and librarians from both the numerator and denominator in 50% Law calculations, which would then inform whether or not this might be brought forward as a consensus proposal.  APG to conclude by June 30

 Withdrawal and Repetition  Board of Governors First Reading on May 4; action scheduled July 13; likely effective September 1  Defining the AA and AS Degrees  AS for areas of science, technology, engineering, math and CTE  AA for all others  Effective for Fall 2011  Also First Reading May 4; action scheduled July 13

 Proposed by UC President Mark Yudof  Charge is to identify reforms or strategies to increase the number of CCC students who:  Are transfer-ready  Are offered and accept transfer  Succeed at the receiving 4-year university  Preliminary report by August 1, 2009  CCC representatives:  Steering Committee: Morgan Lynn  Planning Committee: Linda Michalowski and Jeff Spano  Working Team: Linda Lacy, Jane Patton, Michelle Pilati, Randy Lawson, Morgan Lynn and Linda Michalowski

 21 completed for  Improvements in place: Data given to colleges, Self-Evaluation format, Report Template, team training materials, team and college Evaluation Forms  System Advisory Committee on Student Services is working on further improvements for  Chancellor’s Office will have all reports to colleges within 60 days of the end of the visit  Team composition and cancellations has been greatest challenge

 Memorandum sent March 28  Funds may be spent until September 30, 2009  Applies to EOPS, CARE, DSPS, Matriculation and BFAP-Student Financial Aid Administration  Memo includes reminder that implementation of GASB-45 Advisory is on hold; categorical funds can only be used for current employees

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