SECTIONS 71020.5-71051 - California Statutes

EDUCATION CODE

SECTION 71020.5-71051

71020.5. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this
section to foster the creation, implementation, and phase-in of a
comprehensive community college accountability system that describes
the performance of community colleges in meeting the postsecondary
educational needs of students. This educational and fiscal
accountability system shall provide performance data on students,
programs, and institutions.
It is further the intent of the Legislature that this
accountability system assist all participants in the community
college system, including students, faculty, staff, administrators,
local governing boards, the chancellor, the state board of governors,
the public, and other interested constituencies, in identifying the
educational and fiscal strengths and weaknesses of colleges in order
to improve educational quality in community colleges.
(b) The board of governors shall develop and implement a
comprehensive community college educational and fiscal accountability
system. In developing and implementing this system, the board of
governors shall solicit consultation from institutional and
organizational representatives of the California Community Colleges,
including statewide faculty and staff organizations. At a minimum,
the system shall do all of the following:
(1) Be consistent with the Legislature's intent as expressed in
this act, Chapter 136 of the Statutes of 1987, and Chapter 1465 of
the Statutes of 1986.
(2) Draw from, and build upon, the system proposed in the report
entitled "AB 3409 Community College Accountability Report," prepared
pursuant to Chapter 1465 of the Statutes of 1986.
(3) Be designed to promote student success in community colleges.
(4) Define and measure, quantitatively and qualitatively,
accountability information, including all of the following:
(A) Student access to community colleges.
(B) The extent to which the community college student body
reflects proportionately the adult population of the state.
(C) Student transfer rates and programs.
(D) Academic standards and student achievement.
(E) Student goal satisfaction and success in courses and programs.
(F) Completion rates of courses and programs.
(G) Occupational preparation relative to state and local work
force needs and for entry-level employment, occupational advancement,
and career changes of students.
(H) Adequacy of basic skills and English as a second language
courses and instruction in preparing students to succeed in
collegiate level work.
(I) Adequacy of, and student satisfaction with, student services.
(J) The extent to which the community college work force reflects
proportionately the adult population of the state.
(K) Fiscal conditions of community college districts.
(5) Be designed to streamline the use of multiple performance
measures from appropriate sources of data, including, but not limited
to, matriculation evaluations, categorical program evaluations, the
community college management information system, and other existing
data collection and evaluation systems.
(6) Provide feedback to individual colleges in order to improve
access to community colleges, student performance, and educational
programs where needed.
(7) Produce a published report of community college
accountability.
(c) The Legislature finds and declares that successful
implementation of a comprehensive educational and fiscal
accountability system is, in part, dependent upon an adequate data
collection and reporting system. The accountability system developed
and implemented pursuant to this section shall be phased in, to the
extent necessary, with the funding and local implementation of the
community college management information system.

71021. All official acts of the board shall require the affirmative
vote of a majority of the board, as determined by the policies of
the board. The vote of all members shall be recorded.

71022. All meetings of the board shall be open and public except as
otherwise provided.
The board may hold executive sessions closed to the public to
consider the employment of any person, or the dismissal or other form
of disciplinary action to be taken against any officer or employee
under the jurisdiction of the board, except where that person,
officer, or employee requests a public hearing. The employment status
of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges is subject to
this authority of the board. The board may exclude from that
meeting, whether public or closed to the public, during the
examination of a witness, any or all other witnesses in the matter
being investigated.

71024. The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
has the duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction
heretofore vested in the State Board of Education, Superintendent of
Public Instruction, the Department of Education, and the Director of
Education with respect to the management, administration, and control
of the community colleges.
Whenever in any law other than a provision of the Education Code,
enacted prior to January 1, 1977, relating to the management,
administration and control of the community colleges reference is
made to the State Board of Education, Superintendent of Public
Instruction, the Department of Education, or the Director of
Education, such reference shall be deemed to mean the Board of
Governors of the California Community Colleges.

71025. (a) The name "California Community Colleges" is the property
of the state. No person shall, without permission of the Board of
Governors of the California Community Colleges, use this name, or any
abbreviation of it, or any name of which these words are a part in
any of the following ways:
(1) To designate any business, social, political, religious, or
other organization, including but not limited to, any corporation,
firm, partnership, association, group, activity or enterprise.
(2) To imply, indicate or otherwise suggest that any organization,
or any product or service of that organization, is connected or
affiliated with, or is endorsed, favored or supported by, or is
opposed by one or more California Community Colleges, the Board of
Governors of the California Community Colleges, or the office of the
Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
(3) To display, advertise, or announce these names publicly at or
in connection with any meeting, assembly, or demonstration, or any
propaganda, advertising or promotional activity of any kind which has
for its purpose or any part of its purpose the support, endorsement,
advancement, opposition or defeat of any strike, lockout, or boycott
or of any political, religious, sociological, or economic movement,
activity or program.
The provisions of this section shall not preclude the use of the
name "California Community Colleges" by any person or organization
otherwise subject to this section using the name immediately prior to
March 4, 1972.
(b) Nothing in this section shall interfere with or restrict the
right of any person to make a true and accurate statement in the
course of stating his or her experience or qualifications for any
academic, governmental, business, or professional credit or
enrollment, or in connection with any academic, governmental,
professional or other employment whatsoever.
(c) Every person violating provisions of this section is guilty of
a misdemeanor.

71027. (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community
Colleges shall develop, maintain, and disseminate a general common
course numbering system for use by the community college districts.
(b) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges shall absorb the costs of developing, maintaining, and
disseminating a general common course numbering system pursuant to
this section within the office's existing resources.

71028. The board of governors shall adopt regulations to ensure
that the California Community Colleges, as a system, establish and
apply the statewide participation goals for contracting with minority
business enterprises and women business enterprises specified in
Section 10115 of the Public Contract Code. The statewide
participation goal for the California Community Colleges shall be
based upon the total dollar amount of contracts awarded, with not
less than 15 percent being awarded to minority business enterprises,
and not less than 5 percent being awarded to women business
enterprises. The regulations adopted by the board of governors shall
be adapted from and consistent with the provisions of Article 1.5
(commencing with Section 10115) of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Public
Contract Code.

71029. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Board of
Governors of the California Community Colleges, in cooperation with
the Trustees of the California State University and Colleges and the
Regents of the University of California, may support existing and
additional programs which provide postsecondary educational
opportunities and services for prison inmates, wards, and parolees of
the Department of Corrections and the Department of the Youth
Authority. The board of governors may support programs developed and
operated cooperatively by at least one correctional institution and a
two- or four-year college. Priority shall be given to programs
linking more than two correctional institutions, educational
agencies, parolee programs, community agencies, and potential
employers. The board of governors may support existing programs and
additional demonstration projects which have one or more of the
following components:
(a) Academic and vocational instructional programs at the
postsecondary educational level offered inside state prisons, county
jails, or Department of the Youth Authority institutions.
(b) Information, counseling, and tutoring services for inmates,
wards, and ex-offenders presently enrolled or interested in a
postsecondary educational program.
(c) Courses for inmates and wards which also serve prison
personnel and college students who are not incarcerated.
(d) Cooperative efforts linking postsecondary education programs
with potential employers of ex-offenders.
(e) Research on alternative methods of assessing academic
abilities of inmates and alternative ways of making available
education to inmates and ex-offenders.

71040. The board of governors may allow actual and necessary travel
expenses to community college students, faculty, staff, or other
community college officials or employees who serve on study teams,
task forces, or similar groups formed by the board of governors or by
the chancellor's office and who, in these capacities, attend
meetings of any association, organization, or agency that has as its
principal purpose the study of matters pertinent to education or to a
particular field or fields of education relevant to community
colleges.

71046. The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
may accept on behalf of, and in the name of, the state gifts,
donations, bequests, and devises that may be made to the board of
governors, or to any school or other institution under the
jurisdiction of the board of governors whenever the gift, donation,
bequest, or devise and the terms and conditions thereof, will aid the
Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges in carrying
out its primary functions, as specified in Sections 70900 to 70902,
inclusive. Gifts, donations, bequests, and devises may be made
subject to the conditions or restrictions as the board of governors
may deem advisable.

71049. For the purposes of Government Code Section 11032, the
following constitute, among other proper purposes of like or
different character, state business for officers and employees of the
board of governors and the chancellor's office for which the
officers and employees shall be allowed actual and necessary
traveling expenses:
(a) Attending meetings of any national association or organization
having as its principal purpose the study of matters relating to
education or to a particular field or fields of education, or any
agency of such association.
(b) Conferring with officers or employees of the United States, or
appearing before committees of either house of the Congress of the
United States, relative to problems relating to education in
California.
(c) Conferring with officers or employees of other states engaged
in the performance of similar duties.
(d) Obtaining information useful to the agency in the conduct of
its work.
When traveling is outside the state, traveling and expense shall
be approved by the Governor and Director of Finance as provided in
Government Code Section 11032.

71050. The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges
shall survey local community college districts to determine the level
and type of services needed and available for welfare recipients
pursuant to Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320) of Chapter 2
of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The
Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall develop
a plan and standards for the level of participation by community
college districts required to meet the goal of providing open
entry/open exit education, skills training, assessment, and
counseling to these recipients. The plan shall provide for local
in-service training and technical assistance to community college
districts in development of contracts and programs in cooperation
with county welfare agencies, service delivery areas under the Job
Training Partnership Act, and others necessary to carry out the
intent of that article. The plan shall also provide for the
identification of necessary funding levels and sources of funding,
including employer-based training and funds available under Section
202(b)(1) of the Job Training Partnership Act, to meet the goals of
Article 3.2 (commencing with Section 11320) of Chapter 2 of Part 3 of
Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and the development
and implementation of monitoring and reporting tools for the
continued participation of community college districts in the
provision of services under contracts required by that article.

71051. (a) The board of governors shall develop a process for the
approval and funding of new collaborative facilities projects that
are proposed by community college districts.
(b) The board of governors shall not implement subdivision (a)
without statutory authorization.