I am on re-assignment with the State Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and will not be teaching for 2006-07. As a member of the Executive Committee and the Treasurer for the Academic Senate, I sit on many varied committees and interact regularly with educators across the state and in the three segments of higher education on policy issues that affect our students. Below is a summary of the tasks I am working on at present.

     Under the new legislation SB 70, passed last year, the ASCCC was awarded a $4 million grant (and the fiscal agent is WVMCCD) for a project called Statewide Career Pathways: Creating School to College Articulation. This project will provide an opportunity for high school and college faculty to meet, collaborate and develop articulation agreements. Agreements that result will vary by discipline and may include, alignment of course skills, concepts and sequences, advanced placement possibilities and credit by examination options. While our schools and colleges have already participated in many efforts to align curriculum and develop articulation agreements especially through Tech Prep programs, faculty have indicated several unmet needs which this project will address. I am the faculty coordinator for this very exciting project and the chair of its Steering Committee.