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
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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)
– 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