Chabot College
Academic Policy
Council
Academic Policy Council Meeting
Approved Minutes
Thursday, April 16, 2009
2:15–4:15pm, Room 2345
Core Representatives
Chair — Ming Ho
Vice President of Academic Services — Gene Groppetti
Vice President of Student Services — Melinda Matsuda
Dean-at-Large — Tram Vo-Kumamoto
Director of Admission and Records — Judy Young
Applied Technology & Business — Vacant
Arts & Humanities — Vacant
Counseling — Dara Greene
Health, Physical Education, & Athletics — Vacant
Language Arts — Vacant
Library — Kim Morrison
Science & Mathematics — Laurie Dockter
Social Sciences — Vacant
Adjunct Faculty — Anne Brichacek
Curriculum Committee Representative — Wayne Pitcher
Articulation Officer — Jane Church
Faculty Association — Vacant
Classified Senate — Edna Danaher & Vacant
ASCC — Jessica Gutierrez
Guest
Jennifer Lange — Biology Faculty & Center for Teaching and Learning
Coordinator.
1) Call to order at 2:20 PM.
2) Approval of minutes, March 19 & April 2, 2009.
There was no meeting April 2, 2009. March 19, 2009 minutes were approved
by consensus.
3) Waiver of AA/AS GE and proficiency requirements for holders of
bachelor’s degree or higher
After discussion, an additional parameter for the waiver was added that
current Title V requirement must be satisfied, and the proposal was to be
forwarded to Academic Senate. A copy of the proposal is attached at the end
of the minutes.
Academic Policy Council April 16, 2009, Minutes
4) Conferring multiple degrees
After further consideration, Dara recommended not to make any changes.
5) Data on readmits of dismissed students was tabled due to Judy Young’s
absence.
6) Credit by examination
The current catalog language stipulates that students arrange for credit by
examination by finding individual instructors willing to administer the exam.
The Council felt that this creates inconsistent access for students and
recommended that exams available for credit by examination be determined
at the discipline level. Counseling can maintain a chart of available exams to
properly counsel students. The Council recommended running these ideas by
Academic Senate before proceeding further.
Edna brought the Application for Credit by Examination form. To avoid
students trying to apply by exam for credit for which they are not eligible and
possibly inadvertently committing other errors, the Council recommends that
a signature for a counselor be added as the first signature for students to
obtain in the approval process on the form.
Based on the 2008–2010 Chabot Catalog, Ming felt that Jane’s description of
the credit by examination process coupled with certain ROP classes does not
comply with stated policy because “credit cannot be given for a course which
is comparable to a course already credited on the students secondary school
transcript” (p. 57), though an exam can be used for placement.
7) On-line labs policy
After discussion, it was clarified that the issue was that certain nursing
instructors were telling prospective nursing applicants that online biology
courses will not be accepted to the program, when in fact the evaluation of a
student’s transcript does not take into account the mode under which the
course was completed. Members were concerned that incorrect information is
unfair to students but decided that this is not a policy issue for this Council, as
there is an existing policy that is followed when evaluating transcripts.
Instead, it may be best for Counseling to send a letter to the nursing faculty
explaining the current process in evaluating nursing applicants’ transcripts, so
that faculty can give correct information to students. Dara will draft the letter.
8) Other and future items: Evaluation of non-traditional education
Edna distributed an e-mail of compilations of policies from six community
colleges on the practice of late add.
9) Adjournment at 3:48 PM.
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Academic Policy Council April 16, 2009, Minutes
Academic Policy Council
4/2/09, Revision 4/16/09
Proposal: Baccalaureate Degree Holders to satisfy AA/AS GE, proficiency and
graduation requirements.
Suggested wording:
For Baccalaureate Degree holders, Chabot College will accept “as completed” all
of the required units and proficiency of General Education needed for an
Associate in Arts or Associate in Science degree under the following parameters:
1. The student has completed all of the requirements and has been granted
a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited university in the
United States.
2. The student presents official transcripts that verify completion of the
baccalaureate degree.
3. The student will need to meet current Title V minimum requirement for the
Associate Degree.
4. The student will need to meet Chabot residency requirements of 12 units
in residence for non-vocational or 12 units in the major for
vocational/occupational majors.
5. Degrees from accredited institutions outside the United States will be
evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Rationale: (will not appear in catalog)
Regionally accredited colleges and universities have to meet similar
academic standards at the minimum academic standards set forth in Title V.
Student with baccalaureate degrees has already completed a substantial
amount of courses/units at the lower and upper division level.
Title V allows the community colleges to grant AA/AS degrees with 12 units of
residency at the degree granting institution.
Many of the CA community colleges already have this policy in place thereby
allowing students to expeditiously complete additional studies that may be
necessary to retrain.
Nursing students holding baccalaureate degrees (by legislation) have recently
been granted this opportunity. The assumption being; holders of
baccalaureate degrees have fulfilled AA requirements and not need to
complete college specific requirements beyond the minimum Title V
requirements.
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