CACCRAO Annual Conference

1. CACCRAO Annual Conference Chancellor’s Office UpdateMay 6, 2009Linda MichalowskiVice Chancellor, Student Services and Special Programs

2. Budget • Current status:No cuts, 3% Growth for 09-10 • Means:--$165 million in unfunded enrollments --$33+ million property tax shortfall --$37 million base shortfall (from 07-08) --$340 million cash deferrals --No COLA for 2 years = $570 million loss in spending power

3. Budget - 2 What’s coming: • Revenues continue to decline • $7.8 billion deficit has grown to $9.6 billion • Propositions likely to fail • Would increase deficit to $15.4 billion • May Revise will be delayed • Currently expected on May 28 • Revisiting 2009-10 budget will be protracted • ARRA funds provide some (limited) help

4. Budget - 3 • LAO Proposals: • Fees double or more • Reduced funding rate for “recreational” courses • Categorical flexibility proposals were rejected but likely to be back on the table • Advocacy continues: The California Community Colleges are the key to the state’s economic recovery

5. Legislation Sponsored bills: • AB 386 (Ruskin) – Captioning of audio-visual materials • AB 669 (Fong) – Residency for foster youth Other legislation: • AB 440 (Beall) – Create a transfer degree • AB 37 (Furutani) – Request that colleges and universities confer an honorary degree upon any person who was unable to complete due to the internment of Japanese Americans in 1942

6. Legislation - 2 • Textbooks • AB 317 (Solario) – Requirements for publishers, bookstores and those who select books (adopters) • SB 48 (Alquist) – Require publishers to make books available in electronic format by 2020 • SB 216 (Liu) – Require colleges to post textbook information on Web site at least 30 days before start of class • SB 386 (Runner) – Require faculty to provide “cost-benefit analysis” before adopting new version of a book within 3 years

7. Legislation - 3 • Concurrent Enrollment • AB 78 (Portantino) – Allow ESL and Basic Skills, eliminate principal’s recommendation, eliminate 5% summer cap, change “low enrollment priority” to “not a high priority” • AB 555 (Furutani) – Create pilot to allow 5 districts (Kern, Long Beach, LA, Los Rios, San Jose-Evergreen) to partner with schools to concurrently enroll students for academic or CTE courses at the college or high school and collect apportionment for closed classes

8. Legislation - 4 • Assessment and Placement • AB 371 (Fuller) – Spot bill to encourage CCCs to provide incentives for students to enroll in Basic Skills in their first year • AB 1008 (Block) – Require the Board of Governors to convene a working group to consider statewide assessments and report by June 30, 2010 • 50% Law • AB 1157 (Block) – Change to 52% and include counselors

9. Legislation - 5 • Veterans and Military • SB 361 (Runner) – Clarify that enrollment priority (SB 272, 2007) applies only to vets with honorable discharge; adds Reserve and National Guard • AB 38 (Salas) – Residency for anyone eligible for Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act (new GI Bill) with “domicile” in California • AB 1569 (Committee on Veterans Affairs) – Entitle dependents of military stationed in CA to resident status for fee purposes as long as student is continuously enrolled; retain resident classification for military when reassigned outside the state if continuously enrolled; conforms to change in federal law

10. Legislation - 6 • Veterans and Military - 2 • SB 646 (Denham) – Prohibit charging any fees to honorably discharged CA resident vets or National Guard who have exhausted federal veterans benefits; promotes “catalog rights” for vets who re-enroll within 1 year of discharge • SB 15 (Cedillo) – Extend Cal Grant Entitlement to vets who enlisted within 1 year of high school graduation and enroll in college within 2 years of discharge

11. Legislation - 7 • Veterans and Military - 3 • SB 611 (Correa) – Allow Cal Grant A award to be used for non-tuition expenses if tuition is covered by GI Bill • SB 815 (Cogdill) – Create a non-need financial aid program for active duty and veteran National Guard of $500 plus tuition and fees

12. Legislation - 8 • Expelled students • AB 1400 (Fong) – Authorize colleges to share information about students expelled for specific offenses • Title IX Discrimination • SB 195 (Florez) – Require colleges to certify that every activity complies with federal law prohibiting sex discrimination and impose a civil penalty of $50,000 for false certification

13. Legislation - 9 • Transportation Fee • AB 774 (Cook) – Add Rio Hondo and Riveside to districts authorized to charge mandatory transportation fee upon vote of students for public transit • SB 518 (Lowenthal) – Expected to extend transportation fee authority statewide • Nonresident capital outlay fee • AB 947 (Brownley) -- Extend international student fee to all nonresidents

14. Assessment APG • Recommendations for comment: • Pre-requisites • Change Title 5 to only require content review (Model District Policy on Pre-Requisites) for validation of a pre-requisite. • Support for statewide pre-requisites for specific courses to be phased in over time. A significant question is what things need to be considered in the development of any statewide proposal. • Services • Support ongoing system efforts to increase matriculation funding. Promote a desirable counselor: student ratio (but not require).

15. Assessment APG - 2 • Recommendations (continued): • 50% Law • Investigate what a reasonable percentage might be should counselors and librarians be included with "classroom faculty" for purposes of calculating 50% law compliance (AB1157 a possible vehicle). • Investigate the effect of removing the "non-classroom" loads of counselors and librarians from both the numerator and denominator in 50% Law calculations, which would then inform whether or not this might be brought forward as a consensus proposal. • APG to conclude by June 30

16. Pending Title 5 Changes • Withdrawal and Repetition • Board of Governors First Reading on May 4; action scheduled July 13; likely effective September 1 • Defining the AA and AS Degrees • AS for areas of science, technology, engineering, math and CTE • AA for all others • Effective for Fall 2011 • Also First Reading May 4; action scheduled July 13

17. Transfer Task Force • Proposed by UC President Mark Yudof • Charge is to identify reforms or strategies to increase the number of CCC students who: • Are transfer-ready • Are offered and accept transfer • Succeed at the receiving 4-year university • Preliminary report by August 1, 2009 • CCC representatives: • Steering Committee: Morgan Lynn • Planning Committee: Linda Michalowski and Jeff Spano • Working Team: Linda Lacy, Jane Patton, Michelle Pilati, Randy Lawson, Morgan Lynn and Linda Michalowski

18. Site Visit Update • 21 completed for 2008-09 • Improvements in place: Data given to colleges, Self-Evaluation format, Report Template, team training materials, team and college Evaluation Forms • System Advisory Committee on Student Services is working on further improvements for 2009-10 • Chancellor’s Office will have all 2008-09 reports to colleges within 60 days of the end of the visit • Team composition and cancellations has been greatest challenge

19. Categorical Funds Carry-over • Memorandum sent March 28 • Funds may be spent until September 30, 2009 • Applies to EOPS, CARE, DSPS, Matriculation and BFAP-Student Financial Aid Administration • Memo includes reminder that implementation of GASB-45 Advisory is on hold; categorical funds can only be used for current employees

20. Questions? CACCRAO Annual Conference Chancellor’s Office UpdateMay 6, 2009Linda MichalowskiVice Chancellor, Student Services and Special Programs