Presidential Summit

Attendees: Dr. Don Averill, Chancellor, San Bernardino Community College District; Dr. Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth, Director, Undergraduate Admissions & Relations with Schools, UCI; Dr. Keith O. Boyum, Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, The California State University; Dr. Wes Bryan, President, Golden West College; Donald S. Castro. Special Assistant to the President & Professor of History, Cal State Fullerton, Dr. John Didion, Interim President, Santa Ana College; Dr. David Dowell, CSULB: Dr. Margaret Fieweger, Associate Vice President, Undergraduate Studies at CSU Northridge; Dr. Ron Fremont, Associate Vice President for University Relations, Cal Poly Pomona; Dr. Henry Gee, Vice President of Student Services, Rio Hondo College; Dr. Eddie Hernandez, Rancho Santiago Community College District; Dr. Kathleen Hodge, President, Fullerton College; Dr. James Kossler, President, Pasadena City College; Dr. James E. Lyons, Sr. President, CSU, Dominguez Hills; Dr. Ray Maghroori, Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs, Riverside Community College; Mr. James Mettler, Director of the President's Scholars Program, California State University, Fullerton; Dr. Christopher O'Hearn, President, Mt. San Antonio College; Dr. J. Michael Ortiz, President, Cal Poly Pomona; Dr. James M. Rosser, President, CSULA; Mr. Santana Ruiz, UCI; Dr. Wm. Gregory Sawyer, Vice President for Student Affairs, CSUCI; Michele Siqueiros, Associate Director, Campaign for College Opportunity; Dr. Lisa Sugimoto, Vice President of Student and Learning Services, Pasadena City College; Dr. Vu T. Tran, Director, Undergraduate Admissions & Relations with Schools, UCLA; Dr. Michael J. Viera, Superintendent/President, Citrus College; Dr. Jenny Zorn, Associate Provost for Academic Programs, CSU San Bernardino; Ms. Michelle Siqueiros and Dr. David wolf, Campaign for College Opportunity; Dr. Denise Whittaker, President, San Bernardino Valley college; Dr. Juan Vasquez, President, Santiago Canyon College.

Meeting Call to Order: Donald S. Castro called the meeting to order at 10:15 and asked the participants to introduce themselves briefly. He commented on the recent meeting of the Southern California Consortium of Hispanic Serving Institutions hosted by the President of East Los Angeles College, Dr. Ernest H. Moreno, which was attended by Dr. Antonio Flores head of the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU). Castro also commented on the Chicano/Latino Intersegmental Convocation held in Burlingame. The President of the UC and representatives of the CSU and the community college systems made presentations. He then turned the meeting over to the host of the meeting President Dr. Michael Viera of Citrus college.

President Viera’s Welcome: President Viera welcomed the participants to his college and gave a brief description of the college, its student body and programs. It is a Hispanic serving Institution. Dr. Viera, who also participated in the SCCHSI meeting at ELA College, added that Dr. Flores will be opening a Western Regional Office of HACU in Sacramento and it is scheduled to open on May 5, 2005 (Cinco de Mayo).

Discussion Items:
1. 10:45-11:30 Campaign for College Opportunity, Ms. Michele Siqueiros, Associate Director of the Campaign and Dr. David Wolf presenters. Introduced by President J. Michael Ortiz

President J. Michael Ortiz.
Dr. Wolf began the presentation with a description of the founding of the organization, its Board of Directors and what are the issues of concern. The 1.8 million Californians now likely to be denied the opportunity to go college during the next 10 years is comparable to the total current enrollment of all the community colleges, the California State University and the University of California. Of this total number, approximately 1,350,000 students would start their college education at the community colleges if given the chance, 350,000 students at a California State University and 80,000 students at the University of California. (Private colleges will also be affected.) Many of those students likely to be excluded will be from low-income families, and a majority will be from communities of color. Ms. Michele Siqueiros continued the presentation with descriptions of what the organization is currently doing and how the Presidential Summit members may be able to participate. The Campaign for College Opportunity is sounding the alarm, alerting citizens to the crisis in our midst. They are currently conducting a listening tour throughout the state, meeting with education and business leaders to identify potential solutions. Their website is http://www.collegecampaign.org/. the presentation generated a discussion on a number of related topics with the presentation and on the revision of the California Master Plan for Higher Education. President James Rosser raised the issue of the need for more support for community colleges for science, engineering and technology programs to meet certificate, degree and new job demands, and the need to build grass roots support for higher education. He further stated that Master Plan revisions need to address not only access but also the success of students in receiving degrees appropriate to their educational goals. Others, including Dr. Viera, raised issues related to high school preparation and college readiness.

2. 11:30- 12:00 Mission Statement: Dr. Castro presented the mission statement as an action item noting that the statement was sent out by e-mail with the draft summary notes. He stated that he had received no feedback on possible rewording and presented the statement as originally proposed. It was passed without discussion.

Presidential Summit

“Completion of the student’s educational goal is our paramount concern.”

The Presidential Summit, a consortium of public institutions of higher learning, is committed to a system in which a qualified student may move freely from one member campus to another in the greater Los Angeles Basin region, from one level to another, and from program to program in a timely fashion without repetitive course and/or other procedural requirements. The Presidential Summit is committed to removing institutional and inter-institutional barriers that impede the student’s progress to his or her educational objective.

Summary Notes Approval: Just prior to breaking for lunch Dr. Castro presented the summary notes from the Fullerton meeting held last September 24, 2005. They were approved with the following corrections: Vu Tan was corrected to reflect his real name Vu Tran (UCLA) and Jenny Zorn was moved to her correct campus (CSULB to CSUSB)

Discussion items cont.

The meeting was reconvened at 12:30

3. 12:30-1:30 CSU Academic Policy on Transfer and Core Degree credits. Dr Keith Boyum, Associate Vice Chancellor, CSU Chancellor’s Office. Dr. Castro introduced Dr. Boyum.

The Lower-Division Transfer Patterns (LDTP) project is a joint effort of the Academic Senate CSU and the CSU Chancellor’s Office. Its central purpose is to help community college students who wish eventually to transfer to the CSU to choose efficient patterns of classes, so that they may graduate in a more timely fashion and without having taken excess units. The project goal for the 2004-05 academic year is to identify a pattern of lower-division coursework to be taken in community college for each of up to thirty high-demand majors. CSU faculty and representatives from the Community Colleges have made remarkable progress in arriving at consensus on what these common courses should be. These transfer packages by major are in the process of finalization and student who complete these transfer patterns will be given admission preference to local CSU campuses (excluding impacted programs). Beginning in fall term 2006, students who take the recommended path may be given priority admission when they transfer to a CSU campus, community college advisors and counselors may want to refer to the CSU web site for additional information: http://www.calstate.edu/AcadAff/ldtp.shtml

Dr. Boyum’s presentation raised many issues that were discussed including the issue that with this new pattern of agreed to courses may impact the number of community college students who take the recommended pattern of courses for the AA or As degree because it will require additional units in AA/AS graduation requirements (including physical education and health). This is of concern to the community colleges because they are subject to reporting requirments including the # of AA/AS degrees awarded and the legislators view their success in meeting community college goals based on degrees awarded as well as on the number who transfer to a CSU or a UC campus. There might come a time when it would be helpful if the CSU system request/suggest to community colleges that they consider accepting the CSU 60 unit completion contract as sufficient for meeting the AA degree requirements. Another concern was the issue of impaction and how this affects community colleges and access of their students to CSU campuses. This in especially true for multiple campus college districts that may have more than one campus within the service area of local CSU campuses.

Dr. Castro suggested that the members of the Summit send him their concerns relative to this discussion item and he would forward these to Dr. Boyum. In this discussion Dr. Boyum also promised to send a reply to us relative to the transfer issue and impaction. Here is his response:

Enrollment Controls at CSU Campuses

As of Spring 2005:

• CSU Fullerton was impacted only for first-time freshmen, and was not impacted for upper-division transfers. Also in this category were Chico, Pomona, San Marcos, and Sonoma. Fullerton’s supplementary admissions criteria are additional points on the eligibility index (H.S. grades + SAT or ACT scores).

• CSU Long Beach was impacted for first-time freshman and also for upper-division transfers. Applicants for upper-division transfer must specify a major, and may be held to supplemental admissions criteria for selected majors. Long Beach undergraduate programs in nineteen areas were not impacted; but nine undergraduate majors were impacted. Certain areas of Art, Health Science, and Kinesiology were also impacted at Long Beach.

• CSU Dominguez Hills notes certain programs in health science and clinical sciences as impacted.

• CSU Los Angeles is impacted only in basic Nursing.

Further Notes and Some Implications.

1. CSU Long Beach does have a local area that includes only one community college, within which students seeking upper-division transfer admission are not held to supplementary criteria. 2. A student who lived within the Long Beach local area and was admissible as a first-time freshman without being held to supplementary admissions criteria will be held to supplementary admissions criteria when seeking admission to an impacted major as an upper division transfer. 3. L.A. basin students may seek upper-division transfer admission without being held to supplementary criteria at CSU Fullerton, CSU Dominguez Hills, CSU Los Angeles, and CSPU Pomona. Such a student should be alert to the application windows, and if he or she is tardy, may be denied admission when an application window is closed.

Background; General Overview.

CSU campuses have a variety of tools available with which to manage enrollments. Prominent among these is controlling the periods within which applications for admission are received.

Opening / Closing “Windows” Within Which Applications are Received. For all students, the fall period for receiving applications, to gain admission for the following Fall semester, is a minimum of two months long. Applications are received beginning October 1st, and the window for receiving applications must remain open at least until November 30th. A campus seeking additional enrollment holds the window open longer. If a campus chooses to stop accepting applications for admission on November 30, it is required to admit all fully eligible students on the basis of system admission criteria who applied during this two-month priority application filing date. Campuses may stop accepting applications on any date after November 30 at the point at which it has received a sufficient number of applications necessary to fill openings. However, all fully eligible students who apply up to the date applications are closed must be admitted on the basis of CSU system admission criteria.

The closing of this window is done by student category. Thus a campus may close for first-time freshman applications but remain open for upper-division transfers and for graduate and post-baccalaureate students. Similarly, a campus may close at the graduate level by program: chemistry may close while history stays open awhile. At the time a category is closed, all fully eligible students must be admitted on the basis of CSU system admission criteria.

Campuses may open again after having closed, if budgets or other factors change and the campus wishes to recruit additional students. When CSU unexpectedly experienced a smaller budget cut than anticipated in late July, 2004, a number of campuses re-opened applications, notably for upper-division transfers, that previously had been closed.

Impaction. Some campuses have too much demand, and move to “impacted” status. Impaction may specify program (e.g., discipline, division, major) and / or class levels (e.g., first-time freshmen, upper-division transfers). When campus-wide admission impaction by level is utilized, CSU Trustee policy requires that a “local area” must be designated. Students from the local area are not subject to supplementary admissions criteria, but instead are admissible if they meet standard CSU requirements. K. Boyum, 2/12/05

Comments on CAN: Dr. Boyum wished that the following be forwarded as well: Dr. Boyum: “I am also advised that it is NOT true, though I had thought it was, that existing CAN descriptors are out the window. While there is indeed an effort commencing to write fuller, better ones, until such are in hand the previous, often brief descriptors continue as valid.”

Meeting was adjourned at 2:30 with no additional items for discussion raised by the Summit members in attendance. We need to decide when the next meeting will be held and where.