BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 1016 Page 1 Date of Hearing: May 13, 2015 ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS Jimmy Gomez, Chair AB 1016 (Santiago) - As Amended April 13, 2015 ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Policy |Higher Education |Vote:|12 - 0 | |Committee: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |-------------+-------------------------------+-----+-------------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 AB 1016 Page 2 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 AB 1016 Page 3 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 AB 1016 Page 4