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UPDATE - Student Success Task Force


Student Success Task Force

From: Ton-Quinlivan, Van
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 12:03:16 PM (UTC-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
To: Workforce Division
Subject: Latest on Student Success Task Force: 12/9/11 Update

 

December 9, 2011

 

The Student Success Task Force (SSTF) met December 7th to further refine and finalize the report's recommendations. 

 

If you've not had the opportunity to review the latest version of the report, please be aware that significant advances have been made to make it congruent with the priorities and needs of the CTE/EWD community. 

 

The December 7th meeting started with a summary on the feedback to date, which has been substantial and robust.  CTE/EWD community feedback including CCCAOE comments were noted, and more importantly, have influenced the report.

 

While it would be probably tedious to read through a listing of all the changes, and such a line-by-line analysis might betray the interconnected thrust of the report, a few notable examples of changes merit mention:

 

  •          Categorical consolidation was eliminated.

 

  •          Regional perspectives have been acknowledged (p. 8) --   "We will develop consistent policies, programs, and coherent  educational pathways across our colleges in order to better serve the many students who attend more than one college. The colleges, while retaining their local character, will function as a system with common practices to best serve students..."

 

  •          Assessment demands have been adjusted for some CTE/EWD students (p. 29)  -- "The Board of Governors will define categories of students who should be exempt from mandatory placement and orientation, such as students with a prior degree returning to pursue training in a different career field. Colleges would also be able to exempt students from each of these requirements on a case-by-case basis..."

 

  •          Enrollment management will hinge on a number of factors (p. 45) --  "Community Colleges will use aggregated data from students' programs of study, along with state and local data, including enrollment trends, and labor market demand to develop course schedules and determine course offerings..."

 

  •          Definition of student success was clarified to include students completing short sequences of employment-related courses. 

 

  •          The requirement for declaring a program of study now includes an ability for groups of students to be exempted from the requirement.

 

  •          Any Board of Governor's (BoG Waiver) Grant restrictions will have student appeal rights.

 

  •          The proposal that Proposition 98 funds be used to support the Chancellor's Office was eliminated.

 

These observations are just a sample of the foundations in the new report from which we can build. 

 

Finalization of the report isn't the end of the road for this work, however.  Subsequent Board actions, implementation planning, regulation making and legislative actions to advance outcomes that align with the particular needs of the workforce development community will be forthcoming.  However, you should be able to see an appreciable improvement in this new report.   My commendations go to the 20-member task force for having worked through very difficult discussions so that our system can better support student success.

Please feel free to submit comments on the latest version of the report to the above website or direct questions to Ron Selge, our Division's Dean of Policy & Systems Alignment, at  

rselge@cccco.edu

 

Regards,

 

Van Ton-Quinlivan

Vice Chancellor, Workforce & Economic Development Division

Chancellor's Office, California Community Colleges

1102 Q Street, 4th floor executive offices, Sacramento, CA 95811