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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 520
Author: Steinberg (D), et al.
Amended: 5/28/13
Vote: 21
SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE : 8-0, 5/1/13
AYES: Liu, Wyland, Block, Correa, Hancock, Hueso, Huff, Jackson
NO VOTE RECORDED: Monning
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/23/13
AYES: De Le�n, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
SUBJECT : California Online Student Incentive Grant Programs
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill creates an incentive grant program to
assist faculty and individual campuses of the University of
California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and the
California Community Colleges (CCC), to provide increased
opportunities for students to take online courses, as specified.
ANALYSIS : Existing law requires the UC, CSU, and the CCCs,
with appropriate consultation with the Academic Senates of the
respective segments, to jointly develop, maintain, and
disseminate a common core curriculum in general education
courses for the purposes of transfer. Existing law also
provides that any person who has successfully completed the
transfer core curriculum is deemed to have completed all lower
division general education requirements for the UC and the CSU.
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This transfer core curriculum is commonly referred to as "IGETC"
- the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum.
Existing law establishes the California Virtual Campus, until
January 1, 2014, and outlines the purposes that it may pursue.
Among other things, the California Virtual Campus issues grants
and recipients may use the grants to lead efforts to make online
courses available to students across the state.
This bill:
1.Establishes the California Online Student Access Incentive
Grant programs as three separate programs under the
administration of the President of UC, the Chancellor of CSU,
and the Chancellor of CCCs, for each segment respectively, in
consultation with their respective statewide academic senates.
2.Requires the President of UC, the Chancellor of CSU, and the
Chancellor of CCCs, in consultation with their respective
statewide academic senates, to each develop a list of 20
high-demand lower division courses at his or her segment that
are deemed necessary for program completion, deemed
satisfactory for meeting general education requirements, or in
areas defined as transferable lower division courses under the
Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum. For
these courses, the bill requires the president and
chancellors, in consultation with their respective academic
senates, to each provide up to 15 incentive grants to faculty
and campuses to facilitate intersegmental and intrasegmental
partnerships and partnerships between online course technology
providers and faculty to significantly increase online options
for students and high school pupils for the fall term of the
2014-15 academic year.
3.Requires the online courses supported by incentive grant funds
to be placed in the California Virtual Campus. Requires that
matriculated students of campuses of the UC, CSU, or the CCCs,
and California high school pupils, who complete online courses
supported by incentive grant funds and achieve a passing score
on corresponding course examinations, be awarded full academic
credit for the course at the University of California, the
California State University, or the California Community
Colleges, as applicable.
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4.Provides that funding for the implementation of this provision
be provided in the annual Budget Act, and express the intent
of the Legislature that the receipt of funding by the UC for
the implementation of this provision be contingent on its
compliance with its requirements.
5.Prohibits public funds from being used to fund any private
aspect of a partnership developed under the bill between
faculty of the UC, CSU, or the CCCs, and an online course
technology provider. Provides that intellectual property
developed by a segment in the implementation of the bill is
owned and managed by that segment according to its existing
policies.
6.Extends the provisions establishing the California Virtual
Campus until January 1, 2017. This bill requires the
representatives in the stakeholder group meetings from the UC,
CSU, and the CCCs to include, but not be limited to, faculty
members from these institutions. This bill makes additional
nonsubstantive changes in these provisions.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, unknown,
potentially substantial ongoing costs, depending on the amount
of the incentive grants and the extent of their use.
PQ:nl 5/28/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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