What’s Changed and What Needs to Change in Title 5?

1. What’s Changed and What Needs to Change in Title 5? Beth Smith, Treasurer Mark Wade Lieu, Past President Spring 2010

2. Proposed Changes • 51010 – Equal Employment Opportunity (53000-53006, 53020-53034) • 53412 – Minimum Qualifications for Noncredit (resolution pending) • 55003 – Prerequisites • 55035 – Remedial Coursework

3. More Proposed Changes • 55047 – Repetition of Noncredit Coursework • 55063 – Minimum Requirements for the Associate Degree (SB 1440) • 55152 – Short Term Vocational Programs Providing 288 Hours or More of Instruction (noncredit) • 57030-57037 – Lab Space Allocation

4. 51010 – EEO • Overall Updates to the language • Removal of “availability data” references • New tone of self-assessment and self-accountability • Lengthens the term from 1 to 2 years for an interim administrative position • Interims positions must be filled through regular or in-house searches that include EEO responsibilities • Provides more suggestions on how to demonstrate efforts on hiring and retaining a diverse workforce

5. 53412 – MQs for Noncredit Faculty • Resolution pending this spring to remove the MQs from Title 5 and move to the Disciplines List • Support from noncredit faculty and HR directors • New format of the Disciplines List will make it relatively easy to incorporate noncredit

6. 55003 – Prerequisites • Removes requirement for data analysis for English or mathematics prerequisites on courses outside these disciplines. • Content review is the only requirement for validition • Prerequisites continue to need review every 6 years or 2 years if vocational courses/programs • Must monitor student equity in applying prerequisites • Must apply multiple measures when using assessment/placement tests for meeting prereqs

7. 55035 – Remedial Coursework • 30 unit limit for basic skills instruction • ESL is exempt from the 30 unit limit • Need to update because: • Use of the word “remedial” is problematic • Students are officially banished to adult school or noncredit when they reach 30 unit limit • Confusing and hard to interpret • SACC to investigate

8. 55047 – Noncredit Repetition • Added definitions of • Repetition • Re-enrollment • Multiple Enrollments • Requires Boards of Trustees to establish policies and procedures pertaining to these three areas.

9. 55063 – Minimum Requirements for the Associate Degree • Pending outcomes of resolutions this spring

10. 55152 – Short Term Vocational Programs - noncredit • Currently, there is 288 hour minimum for enhanced funding • Researching why “288” and if another number of hours makes sense • Proposal to increase the number of hours required for these programs

11. 57030-57037 – Lab Space Allocation • Regs are over 40 years old • Were designed to be temporary at the time • There is interest in removing the specifics within the regs and replacing them with separate guidelines • There is support in various pockets of the system for change

12. What needs to change? • MQs • Clarification about whether there can be an equivalency to the associate degree for minimum qualifications • Adding pedagogical training as a minimum qualification

13. What needs to change? • How we approach the 50% law • Change or abolish the percentage • Counselor : student ratio • Change overall funding formula to create incentives to hire more counselors (more than just Title 5)

14. What needs to change? • Language that actually moves the System forward in increasing the percentage of courses taught by full time faculty • Legislation that removes the Department of Finance’s ability to determine what is an “unfunded mandate” in Title 5 or not • Reduction in regulations overall