AB 2610, as amended, Williams. California State University: special sessions.
Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Under existing law, the California State University comprises 25 institutions of higher education. Existing law requires that tuition fees adequate to meet the cost of maintaining special sessions, as defined, in the California State University be collected from students enrolled in each special session pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the trustees.
This bill would express legislative findings and declarations relating to self-supported extension education programs of the university that are prohibited from supplanting state-supported courses. The bill would also express legislative intent to enact legislation to provide sufficient direction to the Chancellor of the California State University and to campuses of the university by clarifying statutory language and defining “supplant.” The bill would also make other nonsubstantive changes.
begin insertThe bill would require the Chancellor of the California State University, in consultation with stakeholders, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Academic Senate of the California State University, to develop a definition for “supplanting” in accordance with the intent of the Legislature expressed in this bill and report that recommended definition to the chairpersons of the Assembly Committee on Higher Education and the Senate Committee on Education on or before January 31, 2015.
end insertVote: majority.
Appropriation: no.
Fiscal committee: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert.
State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 89708 of the Education Code is amended
2to read:
(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
4following:
5(1) In addition to providing state-supported courses and
6programs, California State University campuses offer extension
7education courses and programs that must be self-supporting.
8(2) Extension education courses and programs are designed and
9used to provide increased access to the educational resources of
10the system and to otherwise facilitate the use of those resources.
11(3) California State University campuses are prohibited from
12“supplanting” state-supported courses offered
during the regular
13academic year with self-supported courses. However, the State
14Auditor has determined that existing state law does not define
15“supplanting.”
16(4) “Supplant” is used in the context of community college
17extension courses in subdivision (g) of Section 78230, but is not
18defined in that provision.
19(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to
20provide sufficient direction to the Chancellor of the California
21State University and to campuses of the university by clarifying
22statutory language and defining “supplant.”
23(c) Tuition fees adequate, in the long run, to meet the cost of
24maintaining special sessions in the California State University
25shall be required of, and collected from,
students enrolled in each
26special session pursuant to rules and regulations prescribed by the
27trustees.
28(d) “Special sessions,” as used in this chapter, means
29self-supporting instructional programs conducted by the California
P3 1State University. The special sessions shall include, but not
2necessarily be limited to, career enrichment and retraining
3programs. It is the intent of the Legislature that those programs,
4currently offered on a self-supporting basis by the California State
5University during summer sessions, may be provided throughout
6the year, and shall be known as special sessions. The
7self-supporting special sessions shall not supplant regular course
8offerings available on a non-self-supporting basis during the regular
9academic year.
begin insertThe Chancellor of the California State University, in
11consultation with stakeholders, including, but not necessarily
12limited to, the Academic Senate of the California State University,
13shall develop a definition for “supplanting” in accordance with
14the intent of the Legislature expressed in subdivision (b) of Section
1589708 of the Education Code and report that recommended
16definition to the chairpersons of the Assembly Committee on Higher
17Education and the Senate Committee on Educationend insertbegin insert on or before
18January
31, 2015.end insert
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