BILL ANALYSIS
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CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
AB 2302 (Fong)
As Amended August 20, 2010
Majority vote
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|ASSEMBLY: |75-2 |(June 1, 2010) |SENATE: |29-0 |(August 25, |
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Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.
SUMMARY : Changes current law regarding transfer admissions to
support the transfer pathway proposed by SB 1440 (Padilla),
which is pending on the Assembly Floor, as follows:
1)Requires the California State University (CSU) to do the
following for any California Community College (CCC) student
who meets all the requirements for transfer established by SB
1440, notwithstanding existing laws relating to admission and
categories of admission priority:
a) Guarantee admission with junior status, and,
b) Grant priority consideration for admission to the CSU
campus that serves the local service area in which the
student resides.
2)Requires CSU and CCC Chancellor's Office of (CCCCO) to work
together to establish the most effective methods to inform
students, college advisors, and the general public about the
associate degree for transfer and specific details that help
students navigate this transfer pathway, including, but not be
limited to, Internet notification.
3)Requires the final methods determined by CSU and CCCCO to be
completed prior to the beginning of the fall term of the
2011-12 academic year and included as part of the report
required subdivision (a) of Section 66749 of the Education
Code that is established in SB 1440.
4)Operative August 1, 2011 and commencing with the fall term of
the 2011-12 academic year, for any CCC student who meets all
the requirements for transfer established by SB 1440
(Padilla), requests that the University of California (UC):
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a) Continue its examination of articulation of lower
division major prerequisites in high demand transfer majors
with a goal of working in collaboration with CCC to design
CCC transfer degrees that provide students adequate
preparation for entry into a major;
b) Consider offering guaranteed eligibility for admission
into a UC campus that accepts a designated CCC transfer
degree for admission into a designated UC major;
c) Implement pathways to qualify CCC transfer courses for a
designated UC major by designating a series of CCC courses
that provide sufficient lower division preparation for a
designated UC major and that will be accepted by UC; and,
d) Provide an interim progress report to the Legislature by
June 30, 2011 and a final report by December 31, 2011, with
specific findings regarding UC's implementation of the
specified transfer pathways.
5)Allows a CCC district, in developing an associate degree for
transfer, to consider all the local articulation agreements
and other work between the respective faculties from the
affected community college and CSU campus to clarify pathways
for students.
6)Consistent with existing law requiring CCC to develop common
course numbering, requires CCCCO to establish a process to
facilitate the acceptance of credits at other community
colleges toward the associate degree for transfer established
pursuant to SB 1440.
The Senate amendments removed most of the language approved by
the Assembly, some of which is also contained in SB 1440.
Specifically, SB 1440 establishes a new transfer pathway between
CSU and CCC, commencing with the fall term of the 2011-12
academic year. This bill was amended to make several changes to
current law to support the pathway proposed by SB 1440,
including:
1)Clarifies that students who pursue the transfer pathway
established by SB 1440 will be granted admission priority over
all other students.
2)Request the UC to participate in the new transfer pathway.
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3)Ensures that students are notified of this option for
transfer.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Specifies that the transfer function be a central
institutional priority of all segments of higher education in
California and that the segments develop policy and practices
to support this priority.
2)Requires that the segments of higher education develop
transfer agreements that specify the requirements a CCC
student must meet to transfer to the public four-year segments
of higher education.
AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY , this bill required CSU and CCC, and
requested UC, to develop a common core curriculum for major
preparation, to develop transfer agreements, and to establish
transfer degree programs that would guarantee an associate
degree and transfer to the UC and CSU systems.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown cost exposure, potentially offset by
system efficiencies.
COMMENTS : While the rate of student transfer has generally
increased over the past 15 years, the transfer process is widely
regarded as complex, confusing, and inefficient. A CSU study
found that transfer students graduated with an average of 141
semester units (120 units is usually needed to graduate). The
excess units resulted from course-taking actions at both CSU and
CCC. A separate study found that CCC transfer students earn an
average of 75 CCC units. Numerous entities have called for the
streamlining of the transfer process, including the Legislative
Analyst's Office and the Institute for Higher Education
Leadership and Policy.
Analysis Prepared by : Sandra Fried / HIGHER ED. / (916)
319-3960 FN:
0006661