BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: May 4, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
AB
2137 (Santiago) - As Amended March 28, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: NoReimbursable: No
SUMMARY:
This bill requests that the University of California (UC) report
by March 1 in each year from 2017 through 2020 regarding
California Community Colleges (CCC) student transfers to the UC.
The report is to include the number of transfer
applicants-through the associate degree for transfer (AD/T),
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transfer pathway framework, and transfer admission guarantee
(TAG), respectively-who were admitted, denied admission,
enrolled, and graduated within two or three academic years, all
disaggregated by UC campus. The average CCC grade point averages
for the cohorts admitted and denied admission are also to be
provided.
FISCAL EFFECT:
Minor absorbable costs for the UC to report the required
information annually for four years.
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose. The author contends that, "The Legislature must
continue monitoring UC to ensure a straightforward transfer
process is available to all students. This bill requests
reporting from UC related to transfer between the CCCs and
UC."
2)AD/Ts. SB 1440 (Padilla), Chapter 428, Statues of 2010,
created the Student Transfer Achievement Reform (STAR) Act,
which requires community colleges to create two-year, 60- unit
AD/Ts 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. Once admitted, SB 1440 students need only complete
two additional years (an additional 60 units) of coursework to
earn a bachelor's degree.
AB 2302 (Fong), Chapter 427, Statues of 2010, stipulates that
any community college student who meets all the requirements
for transfer established by SB1440 can request that the UC
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guarantee admission with junior status. AB 2302 also requests
that UC grant priority admission for such a student to a
program or major similar to his or her community college major
or area of emphasis.
3)Transfer Pathways. The UC Transfer Pathways outline a single
set of community college courses that prospective transfer
students can take to prepare for a particular major at any of
UC's nine undergraduate campuses. With Transfer Pathways
developed for the 21 most popular majors for transfer
students, the Pathways cover two-thirds of all transfer
admissions applications UC receives.
4)TAGs. Six UC campuses (Davis, Irvine, Merced, Riverside, Santa
Barbara, and Santa Cruz) offer the TAG program for CCC
students meeting specific requirements. Participating students
receive early review of their academic records, early
admission notification, and specific guidance about major
preparation and general education coursework.
Analysis Prepared by:Chuck Nicol / APPR. / (916)
319-2081