Changes in Title 5 Regulations: What's New and What to Expect?

1. Title 5: What’s Changed and What Might Change? Beth Smith, Treasurer Kevin Bontenbal, Representative At-Large Spring 2011 Plenary Session

2. Overview of What has Changed • 51010, 53000-53006, 53020-53027, 53030, 53033-34 – Equal Employment Opportunity • 53309 – Calculation of Full Time Obligation Number • 55003 - Prerequisites • 58771 – Change to Time of Apportionment Payment for new centers and colleges Spring 2011 Plenary Session

3. EEO Regulations • The new regulations: • Hold districts accountable for implementing practices designed to increase diversity and eradicate barriers to underrepresented groups. • Give districts the independence and the responsibility to design and implement strategies that make sense for their particular communities. • Emphasize and expect systematic self-evaluation of practices that are focused at the district level. • Expect that data is still collected and important. Spring 2011 Plenary Session

4. 53309 – Calculation of FTEF and Full Time Faculty Obligation Number • The regulations direct calculations for full and part time faculty are being changed to exclude parcel tax revenues from the calculations. Spring 2011 Plenary Session

5. 55003 – Prerequisites • Allows colleges to establish prerequisites and corequisites through content review and would not require content review with statistical validation, though colleges would have the option to use either method to establish prerequisites and corequisites. Spring 2011 Plenary Session

6. 58771 – Funding for New Colleges and New Centers • Beginning in the 2010-11 fiscal year, basic allocation funding augmentations for new colleges, new centers, and for increases in college size, will be provided in the year following the approval or increase in size occurs. • The Chancellor’s Office and the Association of Chief Business Officials (ACBO) board members agree that improving funding predictability is especially important when the system is running a general deficit due to revenue shortfalls from property taxes or student fees. • Waiting to fund any new college, new center, or increase in college size until the following fiscal year, will prevent late-year funding shortfalls for the system caused by such augmentations. Spring 2011 Plenary Session

7. What is Likely to Change? Spring 2011 Plenary Session

8. In Discussion Now • Repetition and Withdrawal • Repeatability for Activity Courses • Intercollegiate Athletics • Cap on the Number of Units a Student May Take • Withdrawal Date • Placement Processes and Instrument(s) • Priority Registration Spring 2011 Plenary Session

9. Other Changes From Proposed Resolutions • Learning Assistant Minimum Qualifications • Clarify Role of Advisors and Paraprofessionals in Counseling • 18 Unit Requirement for an Associate Degree Spring 2011 Plenary Session

10. Do We Need Title 5 Changes Here? • Equivalencies • General Education • Correct the order - put English first  • Competencies - Reading - Why is this here? • 75/25 rule should it be amended • Move student services to the instructional side of the 50% law, make it the 60% law • Distance Education 51% reporting rule Spring 2011 Plenary Session