Bill Text: CA AB2451 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Community colleges: transfer course requirements: report.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-04 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB2451 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB2451-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2451 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 8, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Furutani
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
An act to amend Section 88520 of the Education Code,
relating to community colleges. An act relating to
public postsecondary education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2451, as amended, Furutani. Community colleges:
economic and workforce development. transfer course
requirements: report.
Existing law, the Donohoe Higher Education Act, establishes the 3
segments of public postsecondary education in this state. These
segments include the California State University, administered by the
Trustees of the California State University, the University of
California, administered by the Regents of the University of
California, and the California Community Colleges, administered by
the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. A
provision of the act applies to the University of California only to
the extent that the regents, by resolution, make that provision
applicable.
Existing law requires the governing bodies of the 3 public
postsecondary segments, with appropriate consultation with the
academic senates of the respective segments, to develop, maintain,
and disseminate a common core curriculum in general education courses
for the purposes of transfer.
This bill would require the Legislative Analyst's Office to
produce a report evaluating course alignment in the California
Community Colleges and the differing course requirements for transfer
to the California State University and the University of California.
The bill would require the report to be submitted to the Legislature
by July 1, 2011.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under
the administration of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges. Existing law requires the board of governors to
appoint a chief executive officer, known as the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges.
Existing law, until January 1, 2013, establishes the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program and
sets forth the mission of the program. Existing law requires the
board of governors, as part of the program, to award grants to
community college districts for leadership in accomplishing the
missions and goals of the program. Existing law defines various terms
for purposes of the program.
This bill would make various technical, nonsubstantive changes to
these definitions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislative Analyst's Office
shall produce a report evaluating course alignment in the California
Community Colleges and the differing course requirements for transfer
to the California State University and the University of California.
The report shall be submitted to the Legislature on or before July
1, 2011.
(b) (1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall
be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this
section is repealed on January 1, 2015.
SECTION 1. Section 88520 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
88520. The following definitions govern the construction of this
part:
(a) "Business Resource Assistance and Innovation Network" means
the network of projects and programs that comprise the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program.
(b) "California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce
Development Program," "economic and workforce development program,"
and "ED>Net Program" mean the program.
(c) "Center" means a comprehensive program of services offered by
one or more community colleges to an economic region of the state in
accordance with criteria established by the board of governors for
designation as an economic and workforce development program center.
Center services shall be designed to respond to the statewide
strategic priorities pursuant to the mission of the economic and
workforce development program, and to be consistent with programmatic
priorities, targeted industries, identified economic development,
vocational education, business development, and continuous workforce
training needs of a region as identified by regional business
resource, assistance, and innovation network infrastructure plans.
Centers shall provide a foundation for the long-term sustained
relationship with businesses, labor, and colleges in the region. They
shall support, develop, and deliver direct services to businesses,
colleges, labor organizations, employees, and employers. Direct
services shall include curriculum development, faculty training,
assessment, one-on-one counseling, seminars, workshops, conferences,
training, technology transfer, and educational services. Centers
shall provide developmental and delivery support and technical
assistance to colleges within their regions as needed to meet the
business and workforce education and training needs in their
districts.
(d) "Industry cluster" means a geographic concentration or
emerging concentration of interdependent industries with direct
service, supplier, and research relationships, or independent
industries that share common resources and sell a significant portion
of their goods or services outside of the region.
(e) "Industry-driven regional collaborative" means a regional
public, private, or other community organizational structure that
jointly defines priorities, delivers services across programs,
sectors, and in response to, or driven by, industry needs. The
industry-driven regional collaborative projects meet the needs of,
and fill gaps in, services that respond to regional business,
employee, and labor needs. These service-delivery structures offer
flexibility to local communities and partners to meet the identified
needs in an economic development region. Industry-driven regional
collaboratives are broadly defined to allow maximum local autonomy in
developing projects responding to the needs of business, industry,
and labor. Industry-driven regional collaborative services respond to
the statewide strategic priority pursuant to the mission of the
community colleges economic and workforce development program, and
are consistent with the programmatic priorities, targeted industries,
identified economic development, vocational education, and
continuous workforce training needs of a region as identified by
regional business resource, assistance, and innovation network
infrastructure plans.
(f) "Initiative" is an identified strategic priority area that is
organized statewide, but is a regionally based effort to develop and
implement innovative solutions designed to facilitate the
development, implementation, and coordination of community college
economic development and related programs and services. Each
initiative shall be workforce and business development driven by a
statewide committee made up of community college faculty and
administrators and practitioners and managers from business, labor,
and industry. Centers, industry-driven regional collaboratives, and
other economic and workforce development programs performing services
as a part of the implementation of an initiative shall coordinate
services statewide and within regions of the state as appropriate.
(g) "Job development incentive training" means programs that
provide incentives to employers to create entry-level positions in
their businesses, or through their suppliers or prime customers, for
welfare recipients and the working poor.
(h) "Living wage" means family or personal incomes at or above 250
percent of the poverty level, based on United States Census Bureau
data for the region. This definition may be amended upon review of
current data and recommendation of the California Community Colleges
Economic and Workforce Development Program Advisory Committee and
approval of the board of governors.
(i) "Matching resources" means any combination of public or
private resources that are either cash or in-kind, derived from
sources other than the economic and workforce development program
funds appropriated by the annual Budget Act, and are determined to be
necessary for the success of the project to which they are applied.
The criteria for in-kind resources shall be developed by the board of
governors, with advice from the chancellor and the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program
Advisory Committee, and shall be consistent with generally accepted
accounting practices for state and federal matching requirements. The
ratio of matching resources to economic and workforce development
program funding shall be determined by the board of governors.
(j) "Performance improvement training" means training delivered by
a community college that includes all of the following:
(1) An initial needs assessment process that identifies both
training and nontraining issues that need to be addressed to improve
individual and organizational performance.
(2) Consultation with employers to develop action plans that
address business or nonprofit performance improvements.
(3) Training programs that link individual performance
requirements with quantifiable business measures, resulting in
demonstrable productivity gains, and, as appropriate, job retention,
job creation, or improvement in wages or living wages.
(k) "Region" means a geographic area of the state defined by
economic and labor market factors containing at least one industry
cluster and the cities, counties, or community college districts, or
all of them, in the industry cluster's geographic area. For the
purposes of this chapter, "California Community College economic
development regions" shall be designated by the board of governors
based on factors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of
the following:
(1) Regional economic development and training needs of business
and industry.
(2) Regional collaboration, as appropriate, among community
colleges and districts, and existing economic development, continuous
workforce improvement, technology deployment, and business
development.
(3) Other state economic development definitions of regions.
