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          Date of Hearing:  June 29, 2016


                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS


                               Lorena Gonzalez, Chair


          ACR  
          158 (Holden) - As Introduced March 29, 2016


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          Urgency:      State Mandated Local Program:   NoReimbursable:   
          No


          SUMMARY:


          This measure encourages the Academic Senates of the University  
          of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), and  
          the California Community Colleges (CCC) to expedite their  
          current efforts to streamline the transfer process and ensure  
          that all general education credits can transfer between the UC,  
          CSU, and the CCC systems. 


          FISCAL EFFECT:










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          No direct state costs.


          COMMENTS:


          Purpose. According to the author, "This resolution is seeking to  
          streamline the student credit transfer process from and across  
          University of California campuses and California State  
          Universities.  AB 2303, from 2010, requires UC, CSU, and CCC to  
          develop an intersegmental common core transfer curriculum in  
          major preparation courses in which the major preparation common  
          core curriculum shall be the same for all transfer students,  
          regardless of the public four-year institution or the campus to  
          which the student transfers, yet in 2016 this still is not  
          happening.  It appears that the Community Colleges hold most of  
          the articulation agreements and therefore students need to go to  
          a CCC in order to take advantage of transferring credits in the  
          most effective way.  Community Colleges are measured on their  
          transfer rates of students who go to UC and Cal States.   
          California State Universities and University of California do  
          not have the same incentive to help students transfer across or  
          within their two systems."


          A constituent of the author, after completing three semesters at  
          one CSU decided to change majors and sought to transfer to  
          another CSU campus that offers the new major.  During the  
          transfer process, only three of the constituent's classes  
          transferred.  The constituent had to enroll in a CCC, which  
          accepted his credits from the initial CSU campus, and continues  
          to seek ways as to how to allow all of the credits to be  
          accepted at the new CSU. It is unknown how many students are  
          impacted by similar circumstances. According to CSU, this  
          student's case will soon have an appeal hearing.


          According to CSU, in general, a pathway for transfer from one  
          CSU to another CSU exists, but it requires a student to transfer  








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          as an upper division student and to have completed the "Golden  
          Four" requirements-basic skills required of all university  
          students: oral communication, written communication, critical  
          thinking, and mathematics/quantitative reasoning.





          Analysis Prepared by:Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081