Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state.

Existing law authorizes a student who meets specified requirements, and is enrolled at a campus of the California State University, to enroll, without formal admission, and without payment of additional tuition or fees, except as provided, in a course provided entirely online, as defined, by another campus of the California State University.

This bill would enact similar provisions relating to cross-enrollment of community college students in online courses offered by campuses, defined as teaching campuses, other than their home campuses, as defined. The bill would require that the program established by this bill be available at a community college that is part of the Online Education Initiative Consortium, as defined. The bill would specify the qualifications to be met by participating students.

The bill would require the Chancellors Office of the California Community Colleges to provide an online methodology to allow eligible students to be informed of opportunities to access online courses, to enroll in those online courses, and to provide consent to electronically transfer all relevant enrollment data to the teaching college. The bill would also authorize a community college district whose students are participating in this program to accept the determination of a students residency classification under certain conditions.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state.

Existing law authorizes a student who meets specified requirements, and is enrolled at a campus of the California State University, to enroll, without formal admission, and without payment of additional tuition or fees, except as provided, in a course provided entirely online, as defined, by another campus of the California State University.

This bill would enact similar provisions relating to cross-enrollment of community college students in online courses offered by campuses, defined as teaching campuses, other than their home campuses, as defined. The bill would require that the program established by this bill be available at a community college that is part of the Online Education Initiative Consortium, as defined. The bill would specify the qualifications to be met by participating students.

The bill would require the Chancellors Office of the California Community Colleges to provide an online methodology to allow eligible students to be informed of opportunities to access online courses, to enroll in those online courses, and to provide consent to electronically transfer all relevant enrollment data to the teaching college. The bill would also authorize a community college district whose students are participating in this program to accept the determination of a students residency classification under certain conditions.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law, known as the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, establishes and provides for the funding of the Student Success and Support Program. Existing law requires, as a condition for receiving Student Success and Support Program funding, that the governing board of each community college district maintain a student equity plan, as specified.

This bill would require the campus-based research to use a standard definition and measure of equity provided by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. The bill would also require the issue of significant underrepresentation to be addressed based on a standard definition of that term provided by the chancellor. enact similar provisions relating to cross-enrollment of community college students in online courses offered by campuses, defined as teaching campuses, other than their home campuses, as defined. The bill would require that the program established by this bill be available at a community college that is part of the Online Education Initiative Consortium, as defined. The bill would specify the qualifications to be met by participating students.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law, known as the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, establishes and provides for the funding of the Student Success and Support Program. Existing law requires, as a condition for receiving Student Success and Support Program funding, that the governing board of each community college district maintain a student equity plan, as specified.

Existing law requires the student equity plan to include, for each community college in the community college district, campus-based research as to the extent of student equity by gender and for each of several specified categories of students. Existing law also requires the student equity plan to include whether significant underrepresentation of any of these categories of students is found to exist in terms of access to, and completion of, basic skills, career technical education and workforce training, and transfer courses.

This bill would require the campus-based research to use a standard definition and measure of equity provided by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. The bill would also require the issue of significant underrepresentation to be addressed based on a standard definition of that term provided by the chancellor.

CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS

CSA2 Bill Id:AB 637

Author:(Medina)

As Amended Ver:June 12, 2017

Majority vote

Higher Education

Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.

SUMMARY: Authorizes a California Community College (CCC) student who meets specified requirements to enroll in an online course provided by another CCC (referred to as a teaching college) through the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Consortium; and, authorizes a participating community college district to accept the determination of a student's residency classification under certain conditions.

The Senate amendments delete the Assembly version of this bill, and instead:

1. Authorize a CCC student who meets specified requirements to enroll without formal admission, in a course provided entirely online by a CCC.
2. Require a student to meet the following requirements for enrollment:
   1. Be enrolled at a CCC that is part of the OEI Consortium;
   2. Attain at least a 2.0 grade point average (GPA) on a 4-point scale for completed coursework;
   3. Pay the appropriate fees and tuition required by the home college; and,
   4. Have no outstanding tuition and/or fees to be paid at the teaching college.
3. Establish the following requirements for cross-enrollment in online courses at the CCC:
   1. Authorizes nonresident or international students who satisfy the conditions outlined in 2) above, to be able to cross-enroll, but stipulates that these students must pay the required nonresident tuition;
   2. Requires a teaching campus to charge participating students the appropriate course enrollment fees for residents as specified;
   3. Requires the CCC Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) to establish an online methodology to allow students to be informed of the online cross-enrollment option, to simultaneously enroll in both home and teaching colleges, and provide consent to transfer relevant enrollment data to the teaching college;
   4. Requires that the course be accepted for credit at the home campus on the same basis as that for a matriculated student at the teaching campus;
   5. Authorizes the teaching campus to count cross-enrolled students in the calculation of headcount or full-time equivalent student enrollment at the teaching campus, but limits both the home and teaching campus to counting a cross-enrolled student only for those units in which the student is enrolled at each respective campus;
   6. Authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of another community college district as to a student's residency classification provided all of the following conditions are satisfied:
      1. The student is cross-enrolling, as specified;
      2. The student is cross-enrolling in a course available through the online course exchange of the OEI Consortium;
      3. The home college certifies the determination of the community college district as to the student's residency classification;
      4. The student is enrolling in a course available at the teaching college through the online course exchange of the OEI Consortium; and,
      5. Both the home and teaching college have signed on to participate in the online course exchange of the OEI Consortium.
   7. Requires a teaching college to inform each student who enrolls in an online course of the technical or any prerequisite course requirements and any materials, skills knowledge or other elements that are necessary to ensure that a student has an opportunity to succeed in the online course.
4. Define various terms including, but not limited to:
   1. "Home college" to mean the campus of the CCC at which a student is matriculated;
   2. "Teaching college" to mean the campus of the CCC to which a student seeks access;
   3. "OEI Consortium" to mean the efforts to expand the delivery of courses through technology per the Budget Act of 2013 - AB 110 (Blumenfield), Chapter 20, Statues of 2013; and,
   4. "Online course exchange," to mean the technological mechanism used by the OEI Consortium to offer an online-only course that has highest demand, fill quickly, and are prerequisites for many different courses.

EXISTING LAW:

1. Authorizes a student who meets specified requirements and is enrolled at a campus of the California State University (CSU), to enroll, without formal admission, and without payment of additional tuition or fees, except as provided, in a course provided entirely online, as defined, by another campus of the CSU (Education Code (EC) Sections 66760.5 – 66764).
2. Requires that each student be classified as a resident or nonresident at the University of California (UC), the CSU, or the California Maritime Academy, or at a CCC (EC Section 68040).
3. Requires the CCC Chancellor, using funds appropriated under the Budget Act of 2013, to expand the delivery of higher education courses through the use of technology, in order to maximize the development of online courses available across campuses to alleviate shortages of certain core courses at campuses, specifically those courses that have the highest demand, fill quickly, and are perquisites for many different degrees. Under the Budget Act provisions, the CCCCO is required to ensure that students enrolling and successfully completing these courses are granted degree-applicable cross-campus transfer credit and that these online-only courses are made available to students systemwide. These efforts are referred as the OEI (Schedule 26 and Provision 42 Item 6870-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2013 [AB 110 (Blumenfield), Chapter 20, Statutes of 2013]).

FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, negligible state costs.

COMMENTS: Online Exchange Initiative. As noted in the "existing law section" of this analysis, the 2013 Budget Act included a $16.9 million allocation and ongoing annual funding of $10 million for the CCCCO to establish the OEI course exchange.

According to the CCCCO, the OEI Course Exchange provides students who are enrolled at a community college and cannot find the courses they need to complete their degree or transfer, the opportunity to find and take that course at a different CCC through the OEI.

A student's participation in OEI does not mean that he/she will complete his/her degree by taking courses exclusively online; rather, it is a tool available to students after they have exhausted opportunities to enroll at their home college.

Committee Staff understands that the OEI Consortium is available to all CCCs, but participation is not required. To note, of the 24 pilot schools in the OEI Consortium, eight colleges joined the OEI Couse Exchange. According to the author, expansion of courses and the addition of more colleges remains ongoing.

This measure establishes OEI in statute and additionally authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of a student's residency classification.

Need for the measure. According to the author, "Currently, students selecting courses that they need to complete their degree or transfer to a four-year institution in the CCC's OEI Course Exchange encounter delays when attempting to enroll due to the requirement that each community college verify student residency prior to enrollment. At the same time, colleges offering courses in the OEI Course Exchange are at risk of failing to comply with residency determination requirements if they allow a student to enroll prior to verifying student residency."

This bill seeks to remove administrative barriers for students seeking to enroll in courses through the OEI Course Exchange.

Analysis Prepared by: Jeanice Warden / HIGHER ED. / (916) 319-3960 FN: 0001521

Date of Hearing: August 29, 2017

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Jose Medina, Chair

ABPCA Bill Id:AB 637 (

Author:Medina) – As Amended Ver:June 12, 2017

SUBJECT: Community colleges: cross-enrollment in online education.

SUMMARY: Authorizes a California Community College (CCC) student who meets specified requirements to enroll in an online course provided by another CCC (referred to as a teaching college) through the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Consortium; and, authorizes a participating community college district to accept the determination of a student's residency classification under certain conditions. Specifically, this bill:

1. Authorizes a CCC student who meets specified requirements to enroll without formal admission, in a course provided entirely online by a CCC.
2. Requires a student to meet the following requirements for enrollment:
   1. Be enrolled at a CCC that is part of the OEI Consortium;
   2. Attain at least a 2.0 grade point average (GPA) on a 4-point scale for completed coursework;
   3. Pay the appropriate fees and tuition required by the home college; and,
   4. Have no outstanding tuition and or fees to be paid at the teaching college.
3. Establishes the following requirements for cross-enrollment in online courses at the CCC:
   1. Authorizes nonresident or international students who satisfy the conditions outlined in 2) above, to be able to cross-enroll, but stipulates that these students must pay the required nonresident tuition;
   2. Requires a teaching campus to charge participating students the appropriate course enrollment fees for residents as specified;
   3. Requires the CCC Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) to establish an online methodology to allow students to be informed of the online cross-enrollment option, to simultaneously enroll in both home and teaching colleges, and provide consent to transfer relevant enrollment data to the teaching college;
   4. Requires that the course be accepted for credit at the home campus on the same basis as that for a matriculated student at the teaching campus;
   5. Authorizes the teaching campus to count cross-enrolled students in the calculation of headcount or full-time equivalent student enrollment at the teaching campus, but limits both the home and teaching campus to counting a cross-enrolled student only for those units in which the student is enrolled at each respective campus;
   6. Authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of another community college district as to a student's residency classification provided all of the following conditions are satisfied:
      1. The student is cross-enrolling, as specified;
      2. The student is cross-enrolling in a course available through the online course exchange of the OEI Consortium;
      3. The home college certifies the determination of the community college district as to the student's residency classification;
      4. The student is enrolling in a course available at the teaching college through the online course exchange of the OEI Consortium; and,
      5. Both the home and teaching college have signed on to participate in the online course exchange of the OEI Consortium.
   7. Requires a teaching college to inform each student who enrolls in an online course of the technical or any prerequisite course requirements and any materials, skills knowledge or other elements that are necessary to ensure that a student has an opportunity to succeed in the online course.
4. Defines various terms including, but not limited to:
   1. "Home college" to mean the campus of the CCC at which a student is matriculated;
   2. "Teaching college" to mean the campus of the CCC to which a student seeks access;
   3. "OEI Consortium" to mean the efforts to expand the delivery of courses through technology per the Budget Act of 2013 (Chapter 20, Statues of 2013); and,
   4. "Online course exchange," to mean the technological mechanism used by the OEI Consortium to offer an online-only course that has highest demand, fill quickly, and are prerequisites for many different courses.

EXISTING LAW:

1. Authorizes a student who meets specified requirements and is enrolled at a campus of the California State University (CSU), to enroll, without formal admission, and without payment of additional tuition or fees, except as provided, in a course provided entirely online, as defined, by another campus of the CSU (Education Code (EC) Sections 66760.5 – 66764).
2. Requires that each student be classified as a resident or nonresident at the University of California (UC), the CSU, or the California Maritime Academy, or at a CCC (EC Section 68040).
3. Requires the CCC Chancellor, using funds appropriated under the Budget Act of 2013, to expand the delivery of higher education courses through the use of technology, in order to maximize the development of online courses available across campuses to alleviate shortages of certain core courses at campuses, specifically those courses that have the highest demand, fill quickly, and are perquisites for many different degrees. Under the Budget Act provisions, the CCCCO is required to ensure that students enrolling and successfully completing these courses are granted degree-applicable cross-campus transfer credit and that these online-only courses are made available to students systemwide. These efforts are referred as the OEI (Schedule 26 and Provision 42 Item 6870-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2013 [AB 110 (Blumenfield), Chapter 20, Statutes of 2013]).

FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, negligible state costs.

COMMENTS: Online Exchange Initiative. As noted in the "existing law section" of this analysis, the 2013 Budget Act included a $16.9 million allocation and ongoing annual funding of $10 million for the CCCCO to establish the OEI course exchange.

According to the CCCCO, the OEI Course Exchange provides students who are enrolled at a community college and cannot find the courses they need to complete their degree or transfer, the opportunity to find and take that course at a different CCC through the OEI.

A student's participation in OEI does not mean that he/she will complete his/her degree by taking courses exclusively online; rather, it is a tool available to students after they have exhausted opportunities to enroll at their home college.

Committee Staff understands that the OEI Consortium is available to all CCCs, but participation is not required. To note, of the 24 pilot schools in the OEI Consortium, eight colleges joined the OEI Couse Exchange. According to the author, expansion of courses and the addition of more colleges remains ongoing.

This measure establishes OEI in statute and additionally authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of a student's residency classification.

Need for the measure. According to the author, "Currently, students selecting courses that they need to complete their degree or transfer to a four-year institution in the CCC's OEI Course Exchange encounter delays when attempting to enroll due to the requirement that each community college verify student residency prior to enrollment. At the same time, colleges offering courses in the OEI Course Exchange are at risk of failing to comply with residency determination requirements if they allow a student to enroll prior to verifying student residency."

This bill seeks to remove administrative barriers for students seeking to enroll in courses through the OEI Course Exchange.

REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:

Support

California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (sponsor)

MiraCosta College

Opposition

None on file.

Analysis Prepared by: Jeanice Warden / HIGHER ED. / (916) 319-3960

CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS

CSA1 Bill Id:AB 637

Author:(Medina)

As Amended Ver:June 12, 2017

Majority vote

(Vote not relevant)

Original Committee Reference: HIGHER ED.

SUMMARY: Authorizes a California Community College (CCC) student who meets specified requirements to enroll, without payment of additional tuition or fees and without formal admission, in an online course provided by another CCC through the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Consortium; and, authorizes a participating community college district to accept the determination of a student's residency classification under certain conditions.

The Senate amendments delete the Assembly version of this bill, and instead:

1. Authorize a student who meets specified requirements to enroll without payment of additional tuition or fees and without formal admission, in a course provided entirely online by a CCC.
2. Require a student to meet the following requirements for enrollment:
   1. Be enrolled at a CCC that is part of the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Consortium;
   2. Attain a 2.0 grade point average (GPA);
   3. Pay the appropriate fees and tuition required by the home college; and,
   4. Have no outstanding tuition and or fees to be paid at the host college.
3. Establish the following requirements for cross-enrollment in online courses at the CCC:
   1. Authorizes nonresident or international students who satisfy the conditions outlined in 2) above, to be able to cross-enroll but requires that these students pay the required nonresident tuition at the host campus;
   2. Requires a host campus to charge participating students the appropriate course enrollment fees for residents as specified;
   3. Requires the CCC Chancellor's Office (CCCCO) to establish an online methodology to allow students to be informed of the online cross-enrollment option, to simultaneously enroll in both home and host colleges, and provide consent to transfer relevant enrollment data to the host college;
   4. Requires that the course be accepted for credit at the home campus on the same basis as that for a matriculated student at the host campus;
   5. Authorizes the host campus to count cross-enrolled students in the calculation of headcount or full-time equivalent student enrollment at the host campus, but limits both the home and host campus to counting a cross-enrolled student only for those units in which the student is enrolled at each respective campus;
   6. Authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of another community college district as to a student's residency classification provided certain conditions are satisfied; and,
   7. Requires a host college to inform each student who enrolls in an online course of the technical or any prerequisite course requirements and any materials, skills knowledge or other elements that are necessary to ensure that a student has an opportunity to succeed in the online course.
4. Define various terms including, "Online course exchange," to mean the technological mechanism used by the OEI Consortium to offer an online-only course that has highest demand, fill quickly, and are prerequisites for many different courses.

EXISTING LAW:

1. Authorizes a student who meets specified requirements and is enrolled at a campus of the California State University (CSU), to enroll, without formal admission, and without payment of additional tuition or fees, except as provided, in a course provided entirely online, as defined, by another campus of the CSU (Education Code (EC) Sections 66760.5 – 66764).
2. Requires that each student be classified as a resident or nonresident at the University of California (UC), the CSU, or the California Maritime Academy, or at a CCC (EC Section 68040).

To note: Using funds appropriated under the Budget Act of 2013, the CCC Chancellor is required to expand the delivery of higher education courses through the use of technology, in order to maximize the development of online courses available across campuses to alleviate shortages of certain core courses at campuses, specifically those courses that have the highest demand, fill quickly, and are perquisites for many different degrees. Under the Budget Act provisions, the CCCCO is required to ensure that students enrolling and successfully completing these courses are granted degree-applicable cross-campus transfer credit and that these online-only courses are made available to students systemwide. These efforts are referred as the OEI (Schedule 26 and Provision 42 Item 6870-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2013 [AB 110 (Blumenfield), Chapter 20, Statutes of 2013]).

FISCAL EFFECT: According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, negligible state costs.

COMMENTS: Online Exchange Initiative. As noted in the "existing law section" of this analysis, the 2013 Budget Act included a $16.9 million allocation and ongoing annual funding of $10 million for the CCCCO to establish the OEI course exchange.

According to the CCCCO, OEI Course Exchange provides students who are enrolled at a community college, and cannot find the courses they need to complete their degree or transfer, the opportunity to find and take that course at a different CCC through the OEI.

A student's participation in OEI does not mean that he/she will complete his/her degree by taking courses exclusively online; rather, it is a tool available to students after they have exhausted opportunities to enroll at their home college.

To note, of the 24 pilot schools in the OEI Consortium, eight colleges joined the OEI Couse Exchange. According to the author, expansion of courses and the addition of more colleges is ongoing.

This measure establishes OEI in statute and additionally authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of a student's residency classification.

Need for the measure. According to the author, "Currently, students selecting courses that they need to complete their degree or transfer to a four-year institution in the CCC's OEI Course Exchange encounter delays when attempting to enroll due to the requirement that each community college verify student residency prior to enrollment. At the same time, colleges offering courses in the OEI Course Exchange are at risk of failing to comply with residency determination requirements if they allow a student to enroll prior to verifying student residency." This bill seeks to remove administrative barriers for students seeking to enroll in courses through the OEI Course Exchange.

Analysis Prepared by: Jeanice Warden / HIGHER ED. / (916) 319-3960 FN: 0001209

 CONSENT  

Bill No: AB 637

Author:

:

Vote:

SENATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE: 6-0, 6/21/17

AYES: Allen, Galgiani, Leyva, Mendoza, Pan, Vidak

NO VOTE RECORDED: Wilk

SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE: Senate Rule 28.8

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 76-0, 5/4/17 (Consent) - See last page for vote

SUBJECT:

SOURCE: Author

DIGEST:

This bill statutorily authorizes a California Community College (CCC) student who meets specified requirements to enroll, without payment of additional tuition or fees and without formal admission, in an online course provided by another CCC through the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Consortium. This bill also authorizes a participating community college district to accept the determination of a student’s residency classification under certain conditions.

ANALYSIS:

Existing law:

1. Requires that each student be classified as a resident or nonresident at the University of California, the California State University (CSU), or the California Maritime Academy or at a CCC. (Education Code (EC) § 68040)
2. Authorizes a student who meets specified requirements and is enrolled at a campus of the CSU, to enroll, without formal admission, and without payment of additional tuition or fees, except as provided, in a course provided entirely online, as defined, by another campus of the CSU. (EC § 66760.5 – 66764)
3. Requires, using funds appropriated under the Budget Act of 2013, the Chancellor of the CCCs to expand the delivery of higher education courses through the use of technology, in order to maximize the development of online courses available across campuses to alleviate shortages of certain core courses at campuses, specifically those courses that have the highest demand, fill quickly, and are perquisites for many different degrees. Under these provisions the Chancellor’s Office is required to ensure that students enrolling and successfully completing these courses are granted degree-applicable cross-campus transfer credit and that these online-only courses are made available to students systemwide. These efforts are referred as the OEI. (Schedule 26 and Provision 42 Item 6870-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2013 (AB 110, Chapter 20, Statutes of 2013))

This bill:

1. Authorizes, statutorily, a student who meets specified requirements to enroll without payment of additional tuition or fees and without formal admission, in a course provided entirely online by other CCC.
2. Requires a student to meet the following requirements for enrollment:
   1. Be enrolled at a CCC that is part of the OEI Consortium.
   2. Attain a 2.0 G.P.A.
   3. Pay the appropriate fees and tuition required by the home college.
   4. Have no outstanding tuition and or fees to be paid at the host college.
3. Establishes the following requirements and authorities for cross-enrollment in online courses at the CCC:
   1. Authorizes nonresident or an international student who satisfies the conditions outlined in #2 above to cross-enrollment but requires that these students pay the required nonresident tuition at the host campus.
   2. Requires a host campus to charge participating students the appropriate course enrollment fees for residents as specified.
   3. Requires the CCC Chancellor’s Office to establish an online methodology to allow students to be informed of the online cross-enrollment option, to simultaneously enroll in both home and host colleges and provide consent to transfer relevant enrollment data to the host college.
   4. Requires that the course be accepted for credit at the home campus on the same basis as that for a matriculated student at the host campus.
   5. Authorizes the host campus to count cross-enrolled students in the calculation of headcount or full-time equivalent student enrollment at the host campus, but limits both the home and host campus to counting a cross-enrolled student only for those units in which the student is enrolled at each respective campus.
   6. Authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of another community college district as to a student’s residency classification provided certain conditions are satisfied.
   7. Requires a host college to inform each student who enrolls in an online course of the technical or any prerequisite course requirements and any materials, skills knowledge or other elements that are necessary to ensure that a student has an opportunity to succeed in the online course.
4. Defines, statutorily, various terms including, “Online course exchange,” to mean the technological mechanism used by the OEI Consortium to offer an online-only course that has highest demand, fill quickly and are prerequisites for many different courses

Comments

1. Need for the bill. According to the author, “currently, students selecting courses that they need to complete their degree or transfer to a four-year institution in the California Community College’s OEI Course Exchange encounter delays when attempting to enroll due to the requirement that each community college verify student residency prior to enrollment. At the same time, colleges offering courses in the OEI Course Exchange are at risk of failing to comply with residency determination requirements if they allow a student to enroll prior to verifying student residency.” This bill seeks to remove administrative barriers for students seeking to enroll in courses through the OEI Course Exchange.
2. Online Exchange Initiative. The 2013 Budget Act included a $16.9 million allocation and ongoing annual funding of $10 million for the CCC to establish the OEI Course Exchange. According to the CCC, OEI Course Exchange provides students who are enrolled at a community college, and cannot find the course they need to complete their degree or transfer, the opportunity to find and take that course at a different CCC through the OEI.

A student’s participation in OEI does not mean that a student will complete his or her degree by taking courses exclusively online. Rather, it is a tool available to students after they have exhausted opportunities to enroll them at their home college. It appears that the program is open to all community colleges but participation is not required. Of the 24 pilot schools in the OEI Consortium, eight colleges joined the OEI Couse Exchange. According to the author, expansion of courses and the addition of more colleges is ongoing.

This bill establishes OEI in statute and additionally authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of a student’s residency classification.

FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: Fiscal Com.: Local:

SUPPORT: (Verified 7/17/17)

American Association of University Women

California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office

Faculty Association of California Community Colleges

OPPOSITION: (Verified 7/17/17)

None received

ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 76-0, 5/4/17

AYES: Acosta, Aguiar-Curry, Arambula, Baker, Berman, Bloom, Bocanegra, Bonta, Brough, Burke, Caballero, Calderon, Cervantes, Chau, Chávez, Chen, Chiu, Choi, Chu, Cooley, Cooper, Cunningham, Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Eggman, Flora, Fong, Frazier, Friedman, Gallagher, Eduardo Garcia, Gipson, Gloria, Gomez, Gonzalez Fletcher, Gray, Grayson, Harper, Holden, Irwin, Jones-Sawyer, Kalra, Kiley, Lackey, Levine, Limón, Low, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, McCarty, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Obernolte, O'Donnell, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Reyes, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez, Rubio, Salas, Santiago, Steinorth, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Voepel, Waldron, Weber, Wood, Rendon

NO VOTE RECORDED: Travis Allen, Bigelow, Cristina Garcia, Patterson

Prepared by:

7/19/17 15:20:00

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SENATE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Senator Benjamin Allen, Chair

2017 - 2018 Regular

Bill No: Hearing Date: June 21, 2017

Subject:

NOTE: This bill has been amended to replace its contents and this is the first time the bill is being heard in its current form.

SUMMARY

This bill statutorily authorizes a California Community College (CCC) student who meets specified requirements to enroll, without payment of additional tuition or fees and without formal admission, in an online course provided by another CCC through the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Consortium. The bill also authorizes a participating community college district to accept the determination of a student’s residency classification under certain conditions.

BACKGROUND

Existing law:

1. Requires that each student be classified as a resident or nonresident at the University of California (UC), the California State University (CSU), or the California Maritime Academy or at a CCC. (Education Code (EC) § 68040)
2. Authorizes a student who meets specified requirements and is enrolled at a campus of the CSU, to enroll, without formal admission, and without payment of additional tuition or fees, except as provided, in a course provided entirely online, as defined, by another campus of the CSU. (EC § 66760.5 – 66764)
3. Using funds appropriated under the Budget Act of 2013, requires the Chancellor of the CCCs to expand the delivery of higher education courses through the use of technology, in order to maximize the development of online courses available across campuses to alleviate shortages of certain core courses at campuses, specifically those courses that have the highest demand, fill quickly, and are perquisites for many different degrees. Under these provisions the Chancellors office is required to ensure that students enrolling and successfully completing these courses are granted degree-applicable cross-campus transfer credit and that these online-only courses are made available to students systemwide. These efforts are referred as the OEI. (Schedule 26 and Provision 42 Item 6870-101-0001 of Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2013 (AB 110, Chapter 20, Statutes of 2013))

ANALYSIS

This bill:

1. Statutorily authorizes a student who meets specified requirements to enroll without payment of additional tuition or fees and without formal admission, in a course provided entirely online by other California Community College (CCC).
2. Requires a student to meet the following requirements for enrollment:
   1. Be enrolled at a CCC that is part of the Online Education

Initiative (OEI) Consortium.

• 1. Attain a 2.0 G.P.A.
  2. Pay the appropriate fees and tuition required by the home college.
  3. Have no outstanding tuition and or fees to be paid at the host college.

1. Establishes the following requirements and authorities for cross-enrollment in online courses at the CCC:
   1. Authorizes nonresident or an international student who satisfies the

conditions outlined in #2 above to cross-enrollment but requires that these students pay the required nonresident tuition at the host campus.

• 1. Requires a host campus to charge participating students the appropriate

course enrollment fees for residents as specified.

• 1. Requires the CCC Chancellor’s Office to establish an online methodology to allow students to be informed of the online cross-enrollment option, to simultaneously enroll in both home and host colleges and provide consent to transfer relevant enrollment data to the host college.
  2. Requires that the course be accepted for credit at the home campus on

the same basis as that for a matriculated student at the host campus.

• 1. Authorizes the host campus to count cross-enrolled students in the

calculation of headcount or full-time equivalent student enrollment at the host campus, but limits both the home and host campus to counting a cross-enrolled student only for those units in which the student is enrolled at each respective campus.

• 1. Authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of

another community college district as to a student’s residency classification provided certain conditions are satisfied.

• 1. Requires a host college to inform each student who enrolls in an online

course of the technical or any prerequisite course requirements and any materials, skills knowledge or other elements that are necessary to ensure that a student has an opportunity to succeed in the online course.

1. Statutorily defines various terms including, “Online course exchange,” to mean the technological mechanism used by the Online Education Initiative (OEI) Consortium to offer an online-only course that has highest demand, fill quickly and are prerequisites for many different courses.

STAFF COMMENTS

1. Need for the bill. According to the author, “currently, students selecting courses that they need to complete their degree or transfer to a four-year institution in the California Community College’s OEI Course Exchange encounter delays when attempting to enroll due to the requirement that each community college verify student residency prior to enrollment. At the same time, colleges offering courses in the OEI Course Exchange are at risk of failing to comply with residency determination requirements if they allow a student to enroll prior to verifying student residency.” This bill seeks to remove administrative barriers for students seeking to enroll in courses through the OEI Course Exchange.
2. Online Exchange Initiative. As noted in the background of this analysis the 2013 Budget Act included a $16.9 million allocation and ongoing annual funding of $10 million for the California Community Colleges (CCC) to establish the OEI course exchange. According to the CCC, OEI Course Exchange provides students who are enrolled at a community college, and cannot find the course they need to complete their degree or transfer, the opportunity to find and take that course at a different CCC through the OEI.

A student’s participation in OEI does not mean that a student will complete his or her degree by taking courses exclusively online. Rather, it is a tool available to students after they have exhausted opportunities to enroll them at their home college. It appears that the program is open to all community colleges but participation is not required. Of the 24 pilot schools in the OEI Consortium, eight colleges joined the OEI Couse Exchange. According to the author, expansion of courses and the addition of more colleges is ongoing.

This bill establishes OEI in statute and additionally authorizes a community college district to accept the determination of a student’s residency classification.

1. Related activity at California State University (CSU). AB 386 (Levine, Chapter 363, Statutes of 2013) authorized cross-enrollment in online education among CSU campuses. AB 386 also required the Legislative Analyst Office to report and review CSU's Online Programs by October 2017. This report is now scheduled to be released in 2018.The provisions in this bill parallel the authority granted to CSU under AB 386.

SUPPORT

California Community Colleges

OPPOSITION

None received

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Date of Hearing: April 26, 2017

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, Chair

ABPCA Bill Id:AB 637

Author:(Medina) – As Introduced Ver:February 14, 2017

Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: No Reimbursable: No

SUMMARY:

This bill requires campus-based research, for purposes of student equity plans, to use a standard definition and measure of "equity" and "significant underrepresentation" as provided by the California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor.

FISCAL EFFECT:

Minor and absorbable costs to the CCC Chancellor’s Office.

COMMENTS

1. Purpose. According to the author, "Without a standard definition and measure of "equity" and "significant underrepresentation", colleges cannot set cohesive goals to reduce educational gaps and improve student success. A top-down approach to define these terms would help community colleges streamline their research efforts and better target underrepresented groups and improve educational equity." This measure would require campus-based research for purposes of student equity plans, to use a standard definition and measure of "equity" and "significant underrepresentation" as provided by the CCC Chancellor.
2. Background. Existing law creates the Student Success and Support Program (SSSP) in order to provide a variety of programs intended to ensure the success of CCC students, including, but not limited to: a) student assessment before course registration; b) counseling and other education planning services; c) advising; and, d) development of an education plan leading to a course of study.

State law also directs all community college districts (CCDs), with the assistance of the CCC Chancellor to establish and maintain institutional research to evaluate the effectiveness of the SSSP. Current law also specifies the metrics for said research must include, but are not limited to the following: a) prior educational experience, including transcripts when appropriate, as determined by the chancellor; b) educational goals and courses of study; c) criteria for exemption from orientation, assessment, or required counseling or advisement, if applicable; d) need for financial assistance; e) disaggregated data by ethnicity, gender, disability, age, and socioeconomic status, to the extent this information is available; f) academic performance, such as the completion of specified unit thresholds, success in basic skills courses, grade point average, course completion outcomes, transfer readiness, and degree and certificate completion; and, g) any additional information that the chancellor finds appropriate.

1. Related Legislation. AB 504 (Medina) of this Legislative Session requires the CCC Chancellor, when allocating SSSP funds to CCDs for purposes of successfully implementing activities and goals adopted in student equity plans, to establish a standard definition of "equity" and a standard definition of "significant underrepresentation" and measures of these terms, for use in the student equity places of CCDs. AB 504 will be heard today in this Committee.

Analysis Prepared by: Daisy Gonzales / APPR. / (916) 319-2081

Date of Hearing: April 18, 2017

ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON HIGHER EDUCATION

Jose Medina, Chair

ABPCA Bill Id:AB 637 (

Author:Medina) – As Introduced Ver:February 14, 2017

SUBJECT: Community colleges: student equity plans.

SUMMARY: Requires campus-based research for purposes of student equity plans, to use a standard definition and measure of "equity" and "significant underrepresentation" as provided by the California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor.

EXISTING LAW:

1. Creates the Student Success and Support Program (SSSP) in order to provide a variety of programs intended to ensure the success of CCC students, including, but not limited to: a) student assessment before course registration; b) counseling and other education planning services; c) advising; and, d) development of an education plan leading to a course of study. Specifies funding for SSSP shall be targeted to fully implement orientation, assessment, counseling and advising, and other education planning services needed to assist a student in making an informed decision about his or her educational goal and course of study and in the development of an education plan. (Education Code (EC) 78212).
2. Requires that all community college districts (CCD), with the assistance of the California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor, establish and maintain institutional research to evaluate the effectiveness of the SSSP, as specified, and of any other programs or services designed to facilitate students' completion of their educational goals and course of study. Specifies the metrics for said research shall include, but be not limited to the following: a) prior educational experience, including transcripts when appropriate, as determined by the chancellor; b) educational goals and courses of study; c) criteria for exemption from orientation, assessment, or required counseling or advisement, if applicable; d) need for financial assistance; e) disaggregated data by ethnicity, gender, disability, age, and socioeconomic status, to the extent this information is available; f) academic performance, such as the completion of specified unit thresholds, success in basic skills courses, grade point average, course completion outcomes, transfer readiness, and degree and certificate completion; and, g) any additional information that the chancellor finds appropriate (EC Section 78214).
3. As a condition for receiving SSSP funding, and in order to ensure equal educational opportunities and to promote student success for all students, regardless of race, gender, age, disability, or economic circumstances, the governing board of each CCD shall maintain a student equity plan that includes, but is not limited to, the following for each community college in the CCD: a) campus-based research as to the extent of student equity by gender and specified underrepresented groups; b) goals for access to, and completion of, basic skills, career technical education and workforce training, and transfer courses for the overall student population and for each population group of high-need or disadvantaged students, and a determination of what activities are most likely to effectively meet those goals; c) where significant underrepresentation is found to exist, measures for addressing the disparities in those areas, implementation activities designed to attain the specified goals, including, but not limited to, the adoption of evidence-based models of remediation; and, d) a schedule and process for evaluation. The plan shall be adopted by the governing board of the CCD and submitted to the CCC Chancellor, as specified (EC 78820).
4. Requires the CCC Chancellor to allocate funds provided for purposes of successfully implementing the activities and goals specified in the student equity plans, consistent with all of the following: a) the Chancellor shall ensure CCDs submit a student equity plan that is consistent, as specified in EC Section 78220; b) the Chancellor shall ensure that CCDs serving greater populations of students who are high-need or disadvantaged receive greater resources to provide services to students, consistent to the goals and activities specified in their student equity plans; c) the Chancellor shall establish criteria for calculating the number of high-need and disadvantaged students in a CCD; d) the Chancellor shall establish a list of eligible and ineligible expenditures and activities to ensure that funding is used to support the implementation of student equity plan goals and the coordination of services for the targeted student populations; and, e) the Chancellor shall report to the Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, on the expenditure of student equity funds (EC Section 78221).

FISCAL EFFECT: Unknown.

COMMENTS: Student equity plans. The 2016-17 Budget Act allocated $155 million in ongoing funds to CCDs to implement student equity plans. The 2016-17 allocations to districts were calculated using the existing student equity funding formula, which includes factors for annual full-time equivalent student (FTES), high need students, educational attainment of residential zip code, participation rate, poverty rate, unemployment rate, and unduplicated foster youth headcount.

To be noted, student equity funds must be used to address the student equity populations and indicators as defined in statute (EC Sections 78220 and 78221) and be based on the disproportionate impact study, goals, and activities as outlined in the CCDs student equity plans that are submitted to the CCC Chancellor's Office (CCCCO). Additionally, the colleges have two fiscal years to expend these funds. The expenditure cycle for the 2016-17 funds will thus end on June 30, 2018; the CCDs will have to provide mid-cycle and end of cycle expenditure reports to the CCCCO in September 2017 and September 2018, respectively.

Student success and support. Senate Bill 1456 (Lowenthal), Chapter 624, Statutes of 2012, was enacted to implement some of the Student Success Task Force recommendations. Among other things, SB 1456 revised and recast the Seymour-Campbell Matriculation Act of 1986 as the Seymour-Campbell Success Act of 2012 in order to target funding to services such as orientation, assessment, and counseling and advising to assist students with the development of education plans. It also required that students define goals, required that students declare a course of study and mandated student participation in assessment, orientation and education planning.

At a regulatory level, the CCC Board of Governors (BOG) has approved regulations that provide enrollment priority to students who have participated in assessment, orientation and who have developed an education plan. A revision of Title 5 regulations is in progress to implement provisions of SB 1456 to require students to complete core services as well as to declare a course of study. Additionally, in 2012 the Board of Governors adopted enrollment priorities and, as of Spring 2013, districts are required to notify students that accumulating 100 degree applicable units or being on academic or progress probation for two consecutive terms will result in the loss of enrollment priority. Finally, as of Fall 2014, students who complete orientation, assessment, and have a student education plan receive a higher enrollment priority.

Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) report. The LAO, per SB 1456 (as highlighted in the "Student success and support" section of this analysis), in September 2016 issued, "California Community Colleges: Second Progress Report on the Student Success Act of 2012". The report, in part, found that systemwide and college efforts to implement SSSP and student equity are generally consistent with the intent of the SB 1456. The report also found that SSSP and student equity activities vary across colleges. Additionally, the report found that under current guidelines, a college may receive conflicting answers as to whether an equity gap exists for a particular group, depending on which methodology the college chooses.

The report made several recommendations including, but not limited to: a) the Legislature should direct the CCCCO to identify a consistent way of measuring disparities for each of the specified student outcomes; and, b) the Legislature should direct the CCCCO to identify a list of practices shown to be effective in improving student success and reducing equity gaps in community college settings.

Need for the measure. According to the author, "Without a standard definition and measure of "equity" and "significant underrepresentation", colleges cannot set cohesive goals to reduce educational gaps and improve student success. A top-down approach to define these terms would help community colleges streamline their research efforts and better target underrepresented groups and improve educational equity."

This measure would require campus-based research for purposes of student equity plans, to use a standard definition and measure of "equity" and "significant underrepresentation" as provided by the CCC Chancellor.

Related and previous legislation. AB 504 (Medina), which will be heard in this Committee today, would, require the CCC Chancellor, when allocating SSSP funds to CCDs for purposes of successfully implementing activities and goals adopted in student equity plans, to establish a standard definition of "equity" and a standard definition of "significant underrepresentation" and measures of these terms, for use in the student equity places of CCDs.

SB 1143 (Liu) Chapter 409, Statutes of 2010, created the California Community Colleges Student Success Task Force which made 22 recommendations to the CCC BOG to improve student educational achievement in the state. To note, the CCC BOG approved the recommendations in January 2012, which focused on increasing student graduation, transfer, and certificate completion rates at then all 112 community colleges.

SB 1456 (Lowenthal) Chapter 624, Statutes of 2012, established the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012, and among other reforms to the CCCs relating to student success, established the SSSP. To note, since the enactment of SB 1456, the Legislature and the Governor have continually provided funding to SSSP, which is currently $285 million annually.

REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:

Support

Faculty Association of California Community Colleges

Young Invincibles

Opposition

None on file

Analysis Prepared by: Jeanice Warden / HIGHER ED. / (916) 319-3960