BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 388 (Chesbro)
As Amended April 29, 2013
Majority vote
HIGHER EDUCATION 13-0
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|Ayes:|Williams, Chávez, Bloom, | | |
| |Fong, Fox, Jones-Sawyer, | | |
| |Levine, Linder, Medina, | | |
| |Olsen, Quirk-Silva, | | |
| |Weber, Wilk | | |
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SUMMARY : Clarifies that nothing in the Student Success and
Support Program (created by SB 1456 (Lowenthal), Chapter 624,
Statutes of 2012) at the California Community Colleges (CCC) is
intended to preclude CCCs from providing courses and programs
including, but not limited to, professional development of
language skills; and job services for individuals with
disabilities to the extent resources are available for those
purposes.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
COMMENTS : Numerous recent studies have noted that a significant
percentage of students who are able to enroll in CCC courses do
not complete their courses in a timely fashion. These poor
student success rates led to the enactment of SB 1143 (Liu),
Chapter 409, Statutes of 2010, requiring the CCC Board of
Governors (BOG) to convene a task force of stakeholders to make
recommendations to the Legislature to improve CCC student
success. The Student Success Task Force (SSTF) was comprised of
20 individuals (CCC chief executive officers, faculty, students,
researchers, staff and external stake holders) who spent a year
researching, studying and debating the best methods to improve
student outcomes at the CCC. This effort resulted in 22
specific recommendations, adopted unanimously by the CCC BOG in
January 2012.
Central to these recommendations was the need to improve how
CCCs assists students, early in their academic careers, to
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identify an educational goal and develop an education plan to
achieve that goal. These recommendations have been implemented
through regulatory changes, system-wide administrative policies,
local best practices, and legislation. Two key elements are
priority registration and the Student Success and Support
Program.
Students who identify an educational goal and develop an
education plan receive support through the Student Success and
Support Program, which provides improved support to students
through counseling, advisement, orientation, assessment, and
education planning. SB 1456 focused these student support
services on entering students' transition into college to
provide a foundation for students' completion of their
educational goals with a priority toward serving students who
enroll to earn degrees, career technical certificate, transfer
preparation, or career advancement. The education plan required
for new students can be a short-term plan if the student is not
clear about his or her educational goal and/or course of study,
or if the student has a short-term goal.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960 FN: 0000290