BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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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