Get Involved:  

• Budget and Fiscal Review - Senate Subcommittee on Education will meet on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 12 noon in State Capitol Room 112. Please read HELP by Leslie Smith and get involved!
   
• Please press for backfill of $149 million hit to community colleges. Sample letter here.

Student Success Taskforce (SSTF) Implementation Update

• College faculty statewide have called for a task force to be formed to determine the cost of implementing the SSTF recommendations.   
  Consultation Digest, February 6, 2012
   
• Many people are not sold on the completion agenda. Here is an article that advocates for learning, creativity, critical thinking, and enlightenment to be the focus and goal of education. Should we move our colleges in this direction or move in a direction of short-sighted rationing, restriction, and control to balance the budget?
  Inside Higher Ed, February 9, 2012 
   
• At its January 9, 2012 meeting, the CCC Board of Governors accepted the final report of the Student Success Task Force.
  Advancing Student Success in California Community Colleges
   
• Feedback on earlier versions of SSTF drafts from ACCE and other organizations can be accessed through these links:

Letter from ACCE to the Memebers of the SSTF, December 1, 2011

Academic Senate for California Community Colleges: SSTF - Recommendations, Resources, and Responses

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office - CIO Feedback    

California Community College Assciation for Occupational Education, Response to SSTF Recommendations   

Community College Council of the California Federation of Teachers

 

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