Education Code
This Education Code section outlines the mission of California community colleges.
What is Section 66010.4?
This Title 5 section describes the purpose of community colleges, including student access, equity, and success.
What is Section 51000 et seq.?
This body has the ultimate authority for policy decisions in a community college district.
What is the Board of Trustees?
This document is the "voice of the Board of Trustees" and defines general goals and acceptable practices.
What is Board Policy (BP)?
This is the number that identifies the section of California Code of Regulations devoted to community colleges.
What is 5 (Title 5)?
This section requires each community college district to have policies for academic standards and requirements.
What is Section 70901?
This Title 5 section establishes student discipline procedures.
What is Section 51018?
This group must be consulted collegially on academic and professional matters, as defined by law.
What is the Academic Senate?
This type of document implements Board Policy, laws, and regulations and addresses how the general goals of the District are achieved.
What are Administrative Procedures (AP)?
This is the total number of community college districts in California.
What is 73?
These Education Code sections cover the governance of community colleges, including the role of the Board of Governors and local boards of trustees.
What are Sections 70900-71001?
These Title 5 sections govern matriculation, including assessment, orientation, and counseling services.
What are Sections 55500-55536?
This statewide body sets policy and provides guidance for the 73 districts and 116 colleges in the California Community College system.
What is the Board of Governors?
This organization provides Board Policy and Administrative Procedure templates to 67 out of 72 California community college districts.
What is the Community College League of California (CCLC)?
This is the total number of community colleges in the California system.
What is 116?
This section establishes the Matriculation and Student Success and Support Program.
What are Sections 78210-78213?
This Title 5 section provides standards for course outlines, grading policies, and prerequisites.
What is Section 55002?
According to Title 5, governing boards will normally accept recommendations from this group, and "only in exceptional circumstances and for compelling reasons will the recommendations not be accepted."
What is the Academic Senate?
Board policies are organized into this many standard chapters in the CCLC template system.
What is seven?
This principle ensures that community college faculty have a voice in academic and professional matters through a specific consultation process.
What is collegial consultation (or the "10+1")?
This Education Code section states that no community college district may require a candidate for an academic position to be a resident of the district.
What is Section 87428?
These Title 5 sections specify regulations related to equal educational opportunity and non-discrimination.
What are Sections 54200-54230?
This process ensures that appropriate members of the district participate in developing recommended policies for Board action.
What is participatory governance (or collegial consultation)?
This law firm partners with CCLC to provide legal counsel for the Board Policy and Administrative Procedure Service.
What is Liebert Cassidy Whitmore?
This is the approximate number of students served by the California Community College system, making it the largest system of higher education in the United States.
What is 1.8 million?