Fall 2009
Committee:
President, Educational Policies Committee
Whereas, The Basic Skills Initiative has raised awareness about the large number of underprepared students in the California Community College System, where 75% of first-time entering students assess as having basic skills needs;
Whereas, Student success data indicate that students who are not college ready are less likely to succeed than students already at college level;
Whereas, Title 5 regulations demand local college-by-college, course-by-course statistical validation of prerequisites documenting student failure for courses outside of a discipline, and these requirements are perceived as onerous, resulting in a lack of prerequisites for the vast majority of general education courses; and
Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges adopted a resolution for Spring 2009 9.03, Pilot Project for Basic Skills Prerequisite Applications to General Education Courses;
Resolved, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges support the efforts of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges to research potential pilot projects, easily replicable at all colleges, for applying basic skills prerequisites to general education courses.
Whereas, Student success data indicate that students who are not college ready are less likely to succeed than students already at college level;
Whereas, Title 5 regulations demand local college-by-college, course-by-course statistical validation of prerequisites documenting student failure for courses outside of a discipline, and these requirements are perceived as onerous, resulting in a lack of prerequisites for the vast majority of general education courses; and
Whereas, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges adopted a resolution for Spring 2009 9.03, Pilot Project for Basic Skills Prerequisite Applications to General Education Courses;
Resolved, That the Student Senate for California Community Colleges support the efforts of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges to research potential pilot projects, easily replicable at all colleges, for applying basic skills prerequisites to general education courses.