The Evolution of
Curriculum: TMCs
and Local
Degrees
Julie Bruno, Facilitator
Michelle Pilati, ASCCC
Barry Russell, CCCCO
•Overview
• TMC
and AA-T/AS-T Update
• Reciprocity
• Permissible “Local Graduation
Requirements”
• BoG AA-T and AS-T Goals
• C-ID and TMC Issues
• Local Considerations
Administration of Justice
Kinesiology
Art History
Mathematics
Business Administration
Music
Communication Studies
Psychology
Early Childhood Education
Physics
Elementary Education
Political Science
English
Sociology
Geology
Studio Arts
Geography
Theater Arts
History
Computer Science
Journalism
Anthropology
•TMC Update
• Disciplines
now vetting:
Philosophy
• Spanish
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• Disciplines
recently convened
•Recently Convened
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Child and Adolescent Development*
Exercise Science*
Graphic Arts/Graphic Design
Health Science
Hospitality/Hotel Management
Nutrition/Food Science/Dietetics
Environmental Science/Studies
* These are in addition to existing TMCs and descriptors. They are not
intended to replace existing TMCs.
•AA-T/AS-T Development
501 TMC aligned degrees
• Top 5 colleges:
• Fullerton 17
• Pasadena 13
• American River/Golden West 12
• College of San Mateo, Citrus, and
Ventura 11
•
•Reciprocity
• CEC
section 66746.
• Community colleges are encouraged
to facilitate the acceptance of credits
earned at other community colleges
toward the associate degree for
transfer pursuant to this section.
•Reciprocity
• C-ID
ensures course-to-course
reciprocity
• 15.01 Reciprocity for TMC Courses in
Associate Degrees for Transfer (Sp 2011)
• ASCCC strongly urges community
colleges to establish policies to allow
and encourage acceptance of the
courses students have taken at other
colleges in a TMC-aligned degree.
•Reciprocity - Example
• List
•
Choose 1 of red, green, or blue
• List
•
A of the XXX TMC
C of the XXX TMC
Any course not used in list A or B
• College
1 requires red for List A
• College 2 requires green for List A
• Students takes red at College 1 and
then moves to College 2
• What are College 2’s options?
•Reciprocity - Example
• Choices?
• Ignore
the law
• Allow red to fill the List A
requirement
• Require the student to take green
to fill List A and apply red to List C
•Reciprocity - Considerations
• Honoring
the law
• Preparing the student for the local
CSU
• Ensuring that the degree awarded
is consistent with the TMC
•Permissible “Local Graduation
Requirements”?
•A
CC district shall not impose any
requirements in addition to the
requirements of this section, including
any local college or district
requirements, for a student to be
eligible for the associate degree for
transfer and subsequent admission to
the California State University pursuant
to Section 66747.
•Permissible “Local Graduation
Requirements”?
• Complete
12 units “in residency”?
• Require that 12 units “in residency” be
major preparation?
• Require completion of CSU AH&I
requirement as part of GE?
• Require a C in all courses for the major?
•Permissible “Local Graduation
Requirements”?
• Complete
15 units “in residency”?
• Can limits be placed on earning a 2nd
degree?
•
Require that a student complete x
unique/unduplicated units in the major?
• Can
a CCC require that a student be
“in good standing” before graduation?
•
Some CCCs require a GPA of 2.25 to get
off of probation.
•Degree Development Goals
• May
• the
22, 2012 CCCCO Memo
CCC BoG has adopted a goal
of each college having AA-T and
AS-T degrees approved by Fall of
2013 in 80 percent of the majors
they offer in which there is a TMC
and in 100 percent by Fall of 2014.
C-ID and Associate Degrees for
Transfer Update
90 CCCs have courses that have been granted C-ID
designations
1299 CCC courses have received C-ID designations
Top 3:
1.Santa Rosa (102)
2.American River (79)
3.Hartnell (53)
11 CSU Campuses have identified 937 courses as comparable to CID descriptors
346 (140 AG) C-ID descriptors have been approved – in 30
disciplines
501 AA-T and AS-T degrees approved in the Chancellor’s Office
•Definitions
• Active
ADT (Associate Degree for
Transfer)
• Associate Degree Proposal
• Self-certified (C-ID exists)
• Articulation (no C-ID exists)
• C-ID Pending vs. C-ID Final
•How to Compute 100% Goals?
The number of AA-T and AS-T
degrees that are active in the
Chancellor’s Office
The number of TMCs that match
with your existing AA or AS
degrees (as of 12/2012)
Associate Degree for Transfer Goal
Now
2013
June 1
January
2014
June 1
January
80%
100%
Replace self-certified CID with pending or final
C-ID
Replace the use of articulation if C-ID exists
New degree proposals must
show that C-ID approval is
pending or final if C-ID exists;
use articulation only if C-ID does
not exist *
*Articulation may not be used
to bypass C-ID participation.
All non-conforming
degrees pulled
•Degree Development Goals
• What
if we don’t/can’t offer all the
courses?
• What if students never complete that
major, even though we’ve always had
it on the books?
• If we get rid of our existing degree, do
we still have to create an AA-T or AS-T?
•C-ID and TMC Issues
Colleges that provided evidence of
articulation instead of comparability to a CID descriptor during the degree approval
process.
• Colleges that have self-certified that their
courses are comparable to C-ID descriptors
during the degree submission process:
• …have claimed courses are comparable
when they are not.
• …are not submitting courses to C-ID.
•
•So?
• Will
the Chancellor’s Office
revoke degree approval?
• What possible consequences
might there be for:
• misrepresenting
courses in AA-
T/AS-T degrees?
• not submitting courses to C-ID?
•Meet Bill
•Really? Legislation?
•A
poorly worded bill that would have
imposed ill-defined and extensive
portability of courses in TMC-aligned
degrees was defeated, in part, due to
the portability ensured by C-ID.
• C-ID addresses the need for
“portability”.
• C-ID is our solution to prior legislation
calling for common course numbers.
“Existing law requires the Board of
Governors of the California
Community Colleges to develop,
maintain, and disseminate a general
common course numbering system
for use by community college
districts.”
SB 1415 (2004)
•Really? Legislation?
• But
C-ID can only provide these
benefits if colleges participate.
• AND others who want to see SB 1440
work have noted the
value/benefit/role of C-ID.
• “Others” who like legislation….
•SB 1440
• May
11, 2012 Reforming the State's
Transfer Process: A Progress Report on
Senate Bill SB 1440
• LAO Recommendations:
Statutorily endorse the TMC approach
• Clarify in statute that community colleges
are expected to create an associate
degree for transfer in every major they
offer that has an approved TMC
•
•LAO Recommendations
(continued)
• Clarify
in statute its expectation that—
with limited exceptions—CSU
campuses accept TMC–aligned
associate degrees for transfer in each
of the CSU degree options within a
given major.
• Begin to identify next steps if the
segments fall short of meeting the
above goals.
•Local Considerations
• Are
degrees being created to protect
programs or courses – degrees that no
one ever expects a student to earn?
• www.SB1440.org
• www.ASCCC.org
• info@asccc.org
(email)
• www.C-ID.net
• www.ADegreeWithAGuarantee.com.
•Questions?