Community Services Courses
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Excerpts from the California Education Code: Community Services Courses
- Ed Code §66010.4. (Source) (Title 3, Div. 5, Part 40, Ch. 2, Art. 2)
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The missions and functions of California's public and independent segments, and their respective institutions of higher education shall be differentiated as follows:
- (a)
- (1) The California Community Colleges shall, as a primary mission, offer academic and vocational instruction at the lower division level for both younger and older students, including those persons returning to school. Public community colleges shall offer instruction through but not beyond the second year of college. These institutions may grant the associate in arts and the associate in science degree.
- (2) In addition to the primary mission of academic and vocational instruction, the community colleges shall offer instruction and courses to achieve all of the following:
- (A) The provision of remedial instruction for those in need of it and, in conjunction with the school districts, instruction in English as a second language, adult noncredit instruction, and support services which help students succeed at the postsecondary level are reaffirmed and supported as essential and important functions of the community colleges.
- (B) The provision of adult noncredit education curricula in areas defined as being in the state's interest is an essential and important function of the community colleges.
- (C) The provision of community services courses and programs is an authorized function of the community colleges so long as their provision is compatible with an institution's ability to meet its obligations in its primary missions.
- (3) A primary mission of the California Community Colleges is to advance California's economic growth and global competitiveness through education, training, and services that contribute to continuous work force improvement.
- (4) The community colleges may conduct to the extent that state funding is provided, institutional research concerning student learning and retention as is needed to facilitate their educational missions.
- (b) The California State University shall offer undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education, including teacher education. Presently established two-year programs in agriculture are authorized, but other two-year programs shall be permitted only when mutually agreed upon by the Trustees of the California State University and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. The doctoral degree may be awarded jointly with the University of California, as provided in subdivision (c) and pursuant to Section 66904. The doctoral degree may also be awarded jointly with one or more independent institutions of higher education, provided that the proposed doctoral program is approved by the California Postsecondary Education Commission. Research, scholarship, and creative activity in support of its undergraduate and graduate instructional mission is authorized in the California State University and shall be supported by the state. The primary mission of the California State University is undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree.
- (c) The University of California may provide undergraduate and graduate instruction in the liberal arts and sciences and in the professions, including the teaching professions. It shall have exclusive jurisdiction in public higher education over instruction in the profession of law and over graduate instruction in the professions of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. It has the sole authority in public higher education to award the doctoral degree in all fields of learning, except that it may agree with the California State University to award joint doctoral degrees in selected fields. The University of California shall be the primary state-supported academic agency for research.
- (d) The independent institutions of higher education shall provide undergraduate and graduate instruction and research in accordance with their respective missions.
- (a)
- Ed Code §66903. (Source) (Title 3, Div. 5, Part 40, Ch. 11, Art. 1)
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The commission [California Postsecondary Education Commission (CPEC)] has the following functions and responsibilities in its capacity as the statewide postsecondary education planning and coordinating agency and adviser to the Legislature and the Governor:
- (a) It shall require the governing boards of the segments of public postsecondary education to develop and submit to the commission institutional and systemwide long-range plans in a form determined by the commission after consultation with the segments.
- (b) It shall prepare a state plan for postsecondary education that shall integrate the planning efforts of the public segments with other pertinent plans.
The commission shall seek to resolve conflicts or inconsistencies among segmental plans in consultation with the segments.
If these consultations are unsuccessful, the commission shall report the unresolved issues to the Legislature with recommendations for resolution.
In developing the plan, the commission shall consider at least the following factors:
- (1) The need for, and location of, new facilities.
- (2) The range and kinds of programs appropriate to each institution or system.
- (3) The budgetary priorities of the institutions and systems of postsecondary education.
- (4) The impact of various types and levels of student charges on students and on postsecondary education programs and institutions.
- (5) The appropriate levels of state-funded student financial aid.
- (6) The access and admission of students to postsecondary education.
- (7) The educational programs and resources of independent and private postsecondary institutions.
- (8) The provisions of this division differentiating the functions of the public systems of higher education.
- (c) It shall update the plan periodically, as appropriate.
- (d) It shall participate in appropriate stages of the executive and the legislative budget processes as requested by the executive and the legislative branches, and shall advise the executive and the legislative branches as to whether segmental programmatic budgetary requests are compatible with the state plan. It is not intended that the commission hold independent budget hearings.
- (e) It shall advise the Legislature and the Governor regarding the need for, and location of, new institutions and campuses of public higher education.
- (f) It shall review proposals by the public segments for new programs, the priorities that guide them, and the degree of coordination with nearby public, independent, and private postsecondary educational institutions, and shall make recommendations regarding those proposals to the Legislature and the Governor.
- (g) In consultation with the public segments, it shall establish a schedule for segmental review of selected educational programs, evaluate the program approval, review, and disestablishment processes of the segments, and report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor.
- (h) It shall serve as a stimulus to the segments and institutions of postsecondary education by projecting and identifying societal and educational needs and encouraging adaptability to change.
- (i) It shall periodically collect or conduct, or both collect and conduct, studies of projected manpower supply and demand, in cooperation with appropriate state agencies, and disseminate the results of those studies to institutions of postsecondary education and to the public in order to improve the information base upon which student choices are made.
- (j) It shall periodically review and make recommendations concerning the need for, and availability of, postsecondary programs for adult and continuing education.
- (k) It shall develop criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of all aspects of postsecondary education.
- (l) It shall maintain and update annually an inventory of all off-campus programs and facilities for education, research, and community services operated by public and independent institutions of postsecondary education.
- (m)
- (1) It shall act as a clearinghouse for postsecondary education information and as a primary source of information for the Legislature, the Governor, and other agencies.
It shall develop and maintain a comprehensive data base that does all of the following:
- (A) Ensures comparability of data from diverse sources.
- (B) Supports longitudinal studies of individual students as they progress through the state's postsecondary educational institutions, based upon the commission's existing student data base through the use of a unique student identifier.
- (C) Is compatible with the California School Information System and the student information systems developed and maintained by the public segments of higher education, as appropriate.
- (D) Provides Internet access to data, as appropriate, to the sectors of higher education.
- (E) Provides each of the educational segments access to the data made available to the commission for the purposes of the data base, in order to support, most efficiently and effectively, statewide, segmental, and individual campus educational research information needs.
- (2) The commission, in implementing paragraph (1), shall comply with the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g) relating to the disclosure of personally identifiable information concerning students.
- (3) The commission may not make available any personally identifiable information received from a postsecondary educational institution concerning students for any regulatory purpose unless the institution has authorized the commission to provide that information on behalf of the institution.
- (4) The commission shall provide 30-day notification to the chairpersons of the appropriate legislative policy and budget committees of the Legislature, to the Director of Finance, and to the Governor prior to making any significant changes to the student information contained in the data base.
- (1) It shall act as a clearinghouse for postsecondary education information and as a primary source of information for the Legislature, the Governor, and other agencies.
It shall develop and maintain a comprehensive data base that does all of the following:
- (n) It shall establish criteria for state support of new and existing programs, in consultation with the public segments, the Department of Finance, and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.
- (o) It shall comply with the appropriate provisions of the federal Education Amendments of 1972 (P.L. 92-318), as specified in Section 67000.
- (p) It shall consider the relationship among academic education and vocational education and job training programs, and shall actively consult with representatives of public and private education.
- (q) It shall review all proposals for changes in eligibility pools for admission to public institutions and segments of postsecondary education and shall make recommendations to the Legislature, the Governor, and institutions of postsecondary education. In carrying out this subdivision, the commission periodically shall conduct a study of the percentages of California public high school graduates estimated to be eligible for admission to the University of California and the California State University. The changes made to this subdivision during the 2001-02 Regular Session of the Legislature shall be implemented only during those fiscal years for which funding is provided for the purposes of those provisions in the annual Budget Act or in another measure.
- (r) It shall report periodically to the Legislature and the Governor regarding the financial conditions of independent institutions, their enrollment and application figures, the number of student spaces available, and the respective cost of utilizing those spaces as compared to providing additional public spaces. The reports shall include recommendations concerning state policies and programs having a significant impact on independent institutions.
- (s) Upon request of the Legislature or the Governor, it shall submit to the Legislature and the Governor a report on all matters so requested that are compatible with its role as the statewide postsecondary education planning and coordinating agency. Upon request of individual Members of the Legislature or personnel in the executive branch, the commission shall submit information or a report on any matter to the extent that sufficient resources are available. From time to time, it also may submit to the Legislature and the Governor a report that contains recommendations as to necessary or desirable changes, if any, in the functions, policies, and programs of the several segments of public, independent, and private postsecondary education.
- (t) In consultation with the public segments, it shall consider the development of facilities to be used by more than one segment of public higher education, commonly called "joint-use facilities." It shall recommend to the Legislature criteria and processes for different segments to utilize bond funds for these intersegmental, joint-use facilities.
- (u) It may undertake other functions and responsibilities that are compatible with its role as the statewide postsecondary education planning and coordinating agency.
- Ed Code §78020. (Source) (Title 3, Div. 7, Part 48, Ch. 1, Art. 1.5)
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For purposes of this article:
- (a) "Contract education" means those situations in which a community college district contracts with a public or private entity for the purposes of providing instruction or services or both by the community college.
- (b) "Credit" refers to any class offered for community college credit, regardless of whether the class generates state apportionments.
- (c) "Noncredit" refers to courses that meet the criteria for apportionment pursuant to Section 84711.
- (d) "Not-for-credit" refers to classes, including community services classes, that are offered without credit and which are not eligible for apportionments pursuant to Section 84711.
- Ed Code §78300. (Source) (Title 3, Div. 7, Part 48, Ch. 2, Art. 7)
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- (a) The governing board of any community college district may, without the approval of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, establish and maintain community service classes in civic, vocational, literacy, health, homemaking, technical and general education, including, but not limited to, classes in the fields of visual and performing arts, handicraft, science, literature, nature study, nature contacting, aquatic sports and athletics. These classes shall be designed to provide instruction and to contribute to the physical, mental, moral, economic, or civic development of the individuals or groups enrolled therein.
- (b) Community service classes shall be open for the admission of adults and of those minors as in the judgment of the governing board may profit therefrom.
- (c) Governing boards shall not expend General Fund moneys to establish and maintain community service classes. Governing boards may charge students enrolled in community service classes a fee not to exceed the cost of maintaining community service classes, or may provide instruction in community service classes for remuneration by contract, or with contributions or donations of individuals or groups. The board of governors shall adopt guidelines defining the acceptable reimbursable costs for which a fee may be charged and shall collect data and maintain uniform accounting procedures to ensure that General Fund moneys are not used for community services classes.
Excerpts from the California Code of Regulations, Title 5: Community Services Courses
- Title 5 §53401. Applicability to Community Services and Contract Classes. (Source) (Div. 6, Ch. 4, Subch. 4, Art. 1)
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Community service or contract classes which do not award college credit and are not supported by state apportionment are not subject to the provisions of this Subchapter. Contract classes which award college credit are subject to this Subchapter, even if they are not supported by state apportionment.
- Title 5 §55160. Approval of Community Service Classes. (Source) (Div. 6, Ch. 6, Subch. 1, Art. 2)
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- (a) Districts are authorized in accordance with the provisions of article 7 (commencing with section 78300) of chapter 2, part 48 of the Education Code to approve and conduct community services classes without the approval of the Chancellor. The classification of all such classes shall be reported to the Chancellor in accordance with section 55001.
- (b) Community services classes shall not be referred to as noncredit classes.
