- Repeatability Regulations
- Accreditation/ACCJC
- Student Success
- Budget News and Advocacy
- Layoffs
- Salary Comparisons
- Trustees
Repeatability Regulations
- Resolutions to advocate for changes to community college repeatability regulations that limit student success and access
- Resolution approved by the California Federation of Teachers on March 22, 2014
- Cabrillo College Senate Resolution approved December 2, 2014 (note this was not as strong as the resolution below)
- Resolution passed by Academic Senate of California Community Colleges on November 15, 2014 (that the ASCCC will hold a breakout session at the Spring 2015 Plenary, research the impact of the repeatability regulations, and present research at the Spring 2016 Plenary)
- Resolution approved by the Governing Board of Foothill/DeAnza (July 2014)
- Resolution Approved by the Academic Senate of California Community Colleges (passed, Spring 2014 Plenary)
- Resolution for the Academic Senate of California Community Colleges (proposed, Spring 2014 Plenary) Note that the last paragraph was deleted in the final version above.
- FAQ: How New Regulations That Limit the Repeatability of Coursework Take the Community Out of Our Colleges (4/23/14)
- Articles
- “Keep the Community! Organizing Update” by Maya Bendotoff in the May, 2014 Faculty Voice
- “Course repeatability rules restrict student access, learning,” by Emily Watson in the April-May California Teacher
- “Support student success and resist repeatability restriction,” by Max Lopez in the Cabrillo Voice
- Repeatability Regulations Limit Access and Success for Cabrillo Students (list of impacts at Cabrillo, Spring 2014)
- “Repeatability: Why Sometimes Once Is Not Enough!” by Sharon Took-Zozaya in the February, 2014 Faculty Voice
- “Keep the Community in California’s Community Colleges!” by Maya Bendotoff in the February, 2014 Faculty Voice
- Videos
- Highlights from May 1 Forum to Keep the Community in Community Colleges
- Day of Action to Keep the Community in Community Colleges
- Dissertation by Joyce Carrigan
- Background Information
- Chancellor’s Office press release 5/7/12
- ASCCC Repeatability Resolutions (2011)
- Recommendations Regarding Repeatability (Appendix C)
- “The Concept of Credit Courses: Repetition and Repeatability,” by David Morse, Julie Bruno and Michelle Grimes-Hillman in the September, 2014 Rostrum (for an ASCCC perspective; note that CCFT disagrees with some of the content in this article)
- Archives
Accreditation
- Accreditation Watch website
- “ACCJC Gone Wild,” an extensive and eye-opening report by Martin Hittelman, former President of the CFT (updated 8/21/13)
- AFT 2121 and CFT file 300-page complaint against the ACCJC (5/1/13)
- “Accreditation Problems-More Than Meets the Eye?” A summary of “ACCJC Gone Wild” by Mark Newton, past president, AFT 6157
- “Accreditation: Value Clouded in Contentiousness,” Dennis Frisch, President of the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges (FACCC) questions the functioning of the ACCJC
- “What is the ACCJC? Facts and Analysis.” As City College of San Francisco has been struggling to remain open and to prevent cuts in the face of “Show Cause” sanctions from the ACCJC, a research team working with a coalition to save CCSF have prepared this “work in progress that will get deeper as the picture comes into clearer focus.”
City College of San Francisco
- Resolution in support of City College of San Francisco (Feb. 2013)
- “Saving CCSF: What’s At Stake,” by Diane Putnam (Feb. 2013)
Student Success
- Student Success Task Force chart (Jan. 2013)
- Faculty Position Paper on the Student Success Task Force Recommendations (4/2/12)
- Final Student Success Task Force recommendations (12/29/11)
- Student Success Task Force recommendations overview (Jan. 2012)
- Student Success Task Force documents (Chancellor’s Office)
Budget News and Advocacy
- Overview of Proposed 2015-16 Budget (as of May 6, 2015, prior to the May Revise)
- Proposition 30 Would Help Restore Funding for Education and Public Safety
- Educate Students About Cuts to Community Colleges (March 2012)
- California Budget Crisis 2011: Talking Points and Legislative Contact Info