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AB-475 Postsecondary education: Community College Leadership Institute.(1999-2000)

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 27, 1999
Amended  IN  Assembly  May 06, 1999
Amended  IN  Assembly  May 28, 1999
Amended  IN  Senate  July 01, 1999
Amended  IN  Senate  July 08, 1999
Amended  IN  Senate  August 17, 1999
Amended  IN  Senate  April 24, 2000
Amended  IN  Senate  June 12, 2000
Amended  IN  Senate  July 06, 2000
Amended  IN  Senate  August 18, 2000

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 1999–2000 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 475

Introduced  by  Assembly Member Ducheny

February 18, 1999

An act to add and repeal Section 71093 of the Education Code, and to amend Section 12419.7 of the Government Code, relating to postsecondary education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 475, as amended, Ducheny. Postsecondary education: Community College Leadership Institute.
Existing law sets forth the missions and functions of California’s public and independent segments of higher education and their respective institutions of higher education. Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. Existing law requires the board of governors to appoint a chief executive officer, known as the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and specifies the duties and powers of that office.
This bill would require the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to contract with a doctoral level university in California to establish and operate a Community College Leadership Institute to provide education and training for community college faculty and administrators for leadership roles in the California Community Colleges. The bill would require that the institute operate a doctoral fellows program for the purpose of assisting qualified individuals to complete preparation for community college leadership at the doctoral level. Under the bill, these individuals would be required to serve as faculty members or administrators in the California Community Colleges for at least 5 years after leaving the doctoral program. The bill would require a fellow who fails to complete the required service to repay to the state a proportionate share of the support received. The bill would provide that if the doctoral fellow does not voluntarily repay those funds, the amount owing may be offset against any amount that is owed to that person by any state agency. The bill also would require that the institute operate a faculty preparation program to provide grants to assist qualified individuals in improving their direct instruction methodologies by enrolling in courses, seminars, or workshops that are related to teaching pedagogy or that will result in enhancing direct classroom instruction.
The bill would require the California Postsecondary Education Commission to report to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before June 30, 2006, on the various outcomes and effectiveness of the institute and its programs.
The bill would make these provisions inoperative on June 30, 2007, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2008.
The bill would appropriate $1,500,000 from the General Fund to the chancellor for allocation for this purpose.
The bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3   Appropriation: YES   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) Approximately 1,500,000 students in California depend upon the public community colleges for all or part of their college education. Community colleges also play a vital role in educating California’s minority populations, reflecting California’s growing workforce, with a student body that is 12 percent Asian, 7.4 percent African-American, 3.2 percent Filipino, 24.4 percent Latino, and 1 percent American Indian.
(2) California depends upon the graduates of community colleges to fill critically important jobs in the economy. Community colleges are the avenue for the realization of educational aspirations vital to meeting California’s future workforce needs.
(3) The campuses of the California Community Colleges are a precious asset for the entire state, with a unique focus for each of the 107 communities served. The community colleges cannot do their job without a sufficient number of skilled faculty and administrators.
(4) Simply to accommodate anticipated enrollment growth, California Community Colleges must hire 16,000 more faculty and 1,000 more administrators in this decade. The necessity of replacing retiring faculty and administrators will increase these hiring requirements substantially. Additionally, key administrative positions now attract smaller numbers of well-qualified candidates than in earlier years, and high turnover rates are being experienced.
(5) It is essential that innovative and cost-effective means be established to strengthen the preparation of both faculty and administration for their vital roles in the community college system. These programs should ensure access, at a reasonable cost, to necessary preparation at both master’s and doctoral levels and access to other forms of advanced preparation.
(6) Most leadership programs for community college administrators are inaccessible to these leaders. Approximately 40 percent of all doctoral degrees granted to the chief executive officers (CEOs) of community colleges were granted by institutions outside of California and, among the doctoral degrees awarded to community college CEOs in California, 80 percent were granted by private institutions.
(7) It is in the best interests of the State of California to address the faculty, administrative, and leadership needs of the state’s community colleges, and to ensure that these needs are met.
(8) In order to strengthen community college leadership, a variety of initiatives should be undertaken to prepare and assist leaders in many different roles and at different levels of seniority. These efforts should include, but not necessarily be limited to, doctoral and master’s degree programs tailored to community college leadership needs, certificate programs at the university level to help prepare individuals beginning in leadership roles, intensive short-term programs (typically in the summer) to provide advanced leadership training, structured mentorship programs that draw upon the experience of incumbent community college leaders, and programs readily accessible in the various geographical regions of the state to provide ongoing professional development opportunities for community college faculty, administrators, and trustees.
(b) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to accomplish all of the following:
(1) To strengthen the leadership of the California Community Colleges in their role of providing effective instruction and institutional support for a larger and more diverse student body. For purposes of this act, leadership is broadly defined, and includes leadership as exercised in faculty, administrative, and trustee roles.
(2)  To establish a Community College Leadership Institute, which shall operate as part of a doctoral level university in California.
(3) To vest state responsibility for the institute in the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, working closely with an advisory committee of faculty, administrative, and trustee leaders designated by the chancellor for this purpose.

SEC. 2.

 Section 71093 is added to the Education Code, to read:

71093.
 (a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall establish and contract with a doctoral level university in California to operate a Community College Leadership Institute to provide education and training for community college faculty and administrators for leadership roles in the California Community Colleges.
(b) The institute shall work closely with individual colleges and districts, employee organizations, and other professional organizations. The institute shall also cooperate with other public and private universities in establishing and improving degree and nondegree programs and offering to strengthen community college leadership. The institute shall aggressively seek funding to supplement state support from other governmental sources, individual community colleges and community college districts, and other private sources as appropriate.
(c) Among the programs operated by the institute shall be the following:
(1) A doctoral fellows program.
(A) The purpose of this program is to assist qualified individuals to complete preparation for community college leadership at the doctoral level, with an accompanying commitment to serve in the California Community Colleges for a specified number of years after completion of the degree.
(B) Doctoral fellows shall be selected in accordance with procedures established by the institute, in conjunction with an advisory board designated by the Chancellor chancellor, based upon potential for leadership in the community colleges, as evidenced by accomplishments and personal commitment demonstrated in an educational setting, commitment to a career in the community colleges, residence in the State of California, and current or past employment in a California Community College.
(C) Doctoral fellows may complete their degrees in any regionally accredited postsecondary institution in the State of California that offers a doctoral degree. Selection of the institution attended shall be solely at the discretion of the doctoral fellow, and admission to the institution shall be solely at the discretion of that institution. Achieving a diversity of doctoral students reflective of the enrollment of the community colleges shall be a commitment of each participating institution.
(D) The doctoral fellowship shall be awarded for tuition or fees, or both. No participant may receive, in any academic year, a doctoral fellowship award that exceeds nine thousand dollars ($9,000).
(E) Upon leaving a doctoral program, whether the degree has been achieved or not, each fellow shall serve as a faculty member or administrator for at least five years in the California Community Colleges. A fellow who fails to complete the required five years of service shall repay the State of California a portion of the state fellowship support that he or she has received that is proportionate to that part of the five-year period of service not completed. If the doctoral fellow does not voluntarily repay these funds, the amount owed may be offset pursuant to Section 12419.5 of the Government Code.
(2) A faculty preparation program.
(A) The purpose of the faculty preparation program is to provide grants to assist qualified individuals in improving their direct instruction methodologies by enrolling in courses, seminars, or workshops that are related to teaching pedagogy or that will result in enhancing direct classroom instruction.
(B) Grants awarded pursuant to this program shall cover the costs of enrolling in courses, seminars, and workshops.
(C) Program participants shall be selected by their employing college based on an application process established by the institute.
(d) On or before June 30, 2006, the California Postsecondary Education Commission shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the various outcomes and effectiveness of the institute and its programs.
(e) This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2007, and, as of January 1, 2008, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2008, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

Section 12419.7 of the Government Code is amended to read:

12419.7.
 (a) For the purposes of Section 12419.5, an amount due a state agency from a person or entity shall includeany includes the following:
(1) Any amount due a community college district from a person for repayment of student financial assistance or any other proper financial obligation due to the district or a college.

If

(2) Any amount due to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges pursuant to subparagraph (E) of paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 71093 of the Education Code.
(b) If the Controller, in his or her discretion, offsets an amount due a community college district or the chancellor’s office from a person pursuant to Section 12419.5, the Controller shall remit the amount offset to the district or the chancellor’s office, as appropriate.

SEC. 4.

 The sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, for allocation, for the 2000–01 fiscal year, for the purposes of Section 71093 of the Education Code.
SEC. 4.

SEC. 5.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order for the Community College Leadership Institute to operate commencing with the 2000–01 academic year, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.