AB 1925, as introduced, Logue. Public postsecondary education: Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program: University of California.
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools operated by local educational agencies throughout the state. Existing law also establishes a system of public postsecondary education in this state that includes 3 segments: the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to establish a pilot program with the goal of establishing a coordinated curriculum that enables students, including, but not necessarily limited to, students who have earned college course credit through concurrent enrollment in high school and community college, to earn a baccalaureate degree from a participating University of California campus within 3 years of graduating from a secondary school, at a total cost to the student as close as possible to $25,000, excluding the cost of mandatory campus-based fees. The bill would authorize the University of California to establish a Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program that includes any campus of the University of California, any campus of the California Community Colleges that volunteers to participate, and any secondary educational institution that volunteers to participate. The bill would place specified conditions on the operation of the pilot program, which would apply to the University of California only to the extent made applicable by action of the Regents of the University of California.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 92700) is
2added to Part 57 of Division 9 of Title 3 of the Education Code,
3to read:
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It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a pilot
8program with the goal of establishing a coordinated curriculum
9that enables students, including, but not necessarily limited to,
10students who have earned college course credit through concurrent
11enrollment in high school and community college, to earn a
12baccalaureate degree from a participating University of California
13campus within three years of graduating from a secondary school,
14at a total cost to the student as close as possible to twenty-five
15thousand dollars ($25,000), excluding the cost of mandatory
16campus-based fees.
The University of California may establish a
18Baccalaureate Degree Pilot Program that includes any campus of
19the University of California, any campus of the California
20Community Colleges that volunteers to participate, and any
21secondary educational institution that volunteers to participate.
Notwithstanding any other law, all of the following
23provisions shall apply to the operation of the pilot program:
24(a) The number of advanced placement (AP) course credits that
25a participating high school pupil may earn is unlimited.
26(b) The number of transfer credits that a participating high
27school pupil earns that may be accepted by the participating
28community college or University of California campus shall be
29unlimited, except as provided for in subdivision (h).
P3 1(c) A participating student may attend and earn college course
2credit at either his or her high school or at a participating
3community college, and the provisions of
subdivision (c) of Section
448800 shall not apply to a participating high school pupil.
5(d) In order to earn college course credit under the pilot program
6for college-level coursework undertaken before graduation from
7high school, other than courses taken at a community college, a
8participating student shall earn a score of three or better on the AP
9examination for each college-level course.
10(e) A participating student shall receive priority enrollment
11status at a participating community college, and be required to
12enroll at that community college either in the summer term or the
13fall semester immediately succeeding that pupil’s graduation from
14high school.
15(f) In order to remain in the pilot program, a participating student
16shall maintain a minimum grade point average determined by the
17participating institution that
shall be at least 2.5 on a 4-point scale.
18(g) A participating student shall be a full time student, shall take
19no less than 12 semester units each semester, and shall complete
20his or her associate of arts transfer degree in not more than two
21years from the date he or she enrolled at the community college.
22(h) A participating University of California campus shall accept
23a minimum of 60 semester units earned by a participating student
24at either a high school or a community college pursuant to the pilot
25program.
26(i) The mandatory systemwide fees and tuition and mandatory
27campus-based fees charged to a participating student shall not be
28increased during the first two academic years of his or her
29attendance at a University of California campus pursuant to the
30pilot program.
31(j) Institutions participating in the pilot program may offer
32participating students summer internships for credit toward the
33pilot program.
34(k) A participating student shall receive priority enrollment
35status at a participating University of California campus, and shall
36be required to enroll at that University of California campus either
37in the summer term or the fall semester immediately succeeding
38that student’s completion of the required community college
39coursework.
P4 1(l) The bachelor’s degrees awarded at the participating
2University of California campus to a participating student shall be
3limited to baccalaureate degrees in one or more of the following
4fields of study:
5(1) Science.
6(2) Technology.
7(3) Engineering.
8(4) Mathematics.
The requirements imposed on the University of
10California pursuant to Section 92702 shall only apply to the extent
11that the regents, by appropriate resolution, make them applicable.
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