Fall Session 2008, Los Angeles – Noncredit Committee

Equitable Education for Our Noncredit Students

Are You Ready to Help ??

Ad Hoc Noncredit Committee

Ian Walton, Mission CollegeSara McKinnon, College of MarinGreg Keech, City College San FranciscoHal Huntsman, City College San Francisco

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Other Committee Members

Marsha Elliott, North Orange CCD,

School of Continuing Ed

Andrea Sibley Smith, North Orange CCD, School of Continuing Ed

Sylvia Ramirez, MiraCosta College

Fall Session 2008, Los Angeles – Noncredit Committee

Raising the Profile of Noncredit

• ASCCC Ad Hoc Committee

• ASCCC 2006 Paper

• System Office Alignment Project

• SB361 – Enhanced Funding

• Basic Skills Conversation

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Inequity + Solution?

• Basic Skills Initiative

- most vulnerable students

- least resources & services• Noncredit

- same situation – but more so• Another Senate Paper

- focus on student success

- provide same academic integrity as credit

Fall Session 2008, Los Angeles – Noncredit Committee

Are You Ready to Help?

Obvious but Sensitive Issues

- funding rate

- full time faculty (number)

- faculty workload

- counseling & support services

- local budget allocation

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Local Examples

Sara McKinnon – Marin Noncredit

• Part-time Faculty – Participation problems

• Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

• Equal Access

• Social Justice

• Academic Senate Support

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Local Examples

Greg Keech – San Francisco Noncredit

• Cr & NCr under one roof ?

• Equal Footing in Department– integration– professional development– better for students

Fall Session 2008, Los Angeles – Noncredit Committee

Local Examples

Hal Huntsman – San Francisco Senate

• Standing Committee for Noncredit Issues

- Shared Governance

• Designated Noncredit Positions on Senate ?

• Noncredit as Diversity Criterion

- Representative Bodies

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Bargaining

Sylvia Ramirez – MiraCosta

• Material from Jonathan Cole

- past Senate president

• Bargaining Issues

- Faculty fairness: same load

- Expect equal participation / leadership

- All students deserve FT faculty

Fall Session 2008, Los Angeles – Noncredit Committee

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