BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: May 13, 2015
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Jimmy Gomez, Chair
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1016 (Santiago) - As Amended April 13, 2015
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: YesReimbursable:
Yes
SUMMARY:
This bill requires the California Community Colleges
Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) and the California State University
(CSU) to report to the Legislature on each system's compliance
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with provisions of the Student Transfer Achievement (STAR) Act.
Specifically, this bill:
1)Requires the CCCCO, by March 1, 2016, to report on the status
of each community college's compliance regarding the creation
of associate degrees for transfer.
2)Requires the CSU to report on campus acceptance of transfer
model curricula (TMC) by concentration, by March 1, 2016 and
again by March 1, 2017.
3)Requires CSU, by November 1, 2018, and annually thereafter
through 2022, to publicly post data on admittance of associate
degree for transfer students to their first-choice campus and
a program similar to their degree, and on these students'
outcomes, as specified.
FISCAL EFFECT:
1)CSU indicates that students do not current rank the campuses
to which they apply, thus there will be one-time General Fund
costs of $500,000 to $1 million for programming to capture and
report this data and to train staff regarding the new coding
requirements.
2)Costs to the CCC will be minor and absorbable.
COMMENTS:
1)Background. As a way to address long standing issues and
concerns about the need to ensure a clearer, transparent and
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more navigable transfer process between the CCC and CSU, SB
1440 (Padilla), Chapter 428, Statutes of 2010, required
community colleges to create two-year 60 unit associate
degrees for transfer that are fully transferable to CSU.
Students who earn such a degree are automatically eligible to
transfer to the CSU system as an upper-division student in a
bachelor's degree program. Though these students are not
guaranteed admission to a particular CSU campus or into a
particular degree program, SB 1440 gives them priority
admission to a CSU program that is "similar" to the student's
CCC major or area of emphasis, as determined by the CSU campus
to which the student is admitted. Once admitted, SB 1440
students need only complete two additional years (an
additional 60 units) of coursework to earn a bachelor's
degree.
Senate Bill 440 (Padilla), Chapter 720, Statutes of 2013,
required a CCC, prior to the 2014-15 academic year, to create
a transfer degree in every major that has a TMC. Once
approved by faculty, community colleges use a TMC to design a
transfer degree in that particular major.
2)Purpose. As a way to ensure more students are familiar with
the ADT and its direct path for CSU transfer, and to help the
Legislature monitor how the segments are implementing the STAR
Act, the Legislative Analyst's Office, in a recent status
report on the STAR Act, recommended one near-term report from
the CCC and two from the CSU to track the segments' progress
in creating associate degrees for transfer and accepting TMCs;
and, recommended requiring CSU to annually provide data on
certain student outcomes, beginning Fall 2018.
Analysis Prepared by:Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916)
319-2081
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