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Booze, David Mosely – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The California Community Colleges (CCC) is the largest system of higher education in the United States. In the past two decades, CCC has effectively shut hundreds of thousands of students out of higher education by increasing the cost of tuition. The drop in student enrollment resulted in fewer students meeting their educational goals within a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Enrollment Management, Funding Formulas, Program Effectiveness
Douglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This essay discusses the contentious events leading to the decision by the University of California's Board of Regents to end affirmative action in admissions, hiring and contracting at the university in July 1995. This controversial decision provided momentum for California's passage of Proposition 209 the following year ending "racial…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Politics of Education, Access to Education, Equal Education
Bracco, Kathy Reeves; Schrager, Cynthia; Calisi, Grace; Gutierrez, Priscilla; Salciccioli, Maria; Finkelstein, Neal – WestEd, 2019
Executive Order (EO) 1110, a major policy adopted by the California State University System (CSU) Chancellor's Office in August 2017, requires CSU campuses to eliminate non-credit-bearing developmental courses in written communication and math/quantitative reasoning, and change how students are placed into entry-level courses in these areas. The…
Descriptors: College Readiness, State Universities, Educational Policy, Educational Change
Geiser, Saul – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Of all college admission criteria, scores on nationally normed tests like the SAT and ACT are most affected by the socioeconomic background of the student. The effect of socioeconomic background on test scores has grown substantially at University of California over the past two decades, and tests have become more of a barrier to admission of…
Descriptors: Norm Referenced Tests, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Race
Fleming, Kevin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The California Community College mission requires offering relevant Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs. Due to program accretion and bureaucratic inertia, program discontinuance (PD) seems at odds with postsecondary culture. Yet, as a result of recent budget constrictions, community colleges are forced to identify effective PD…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Vocational Education, Program Termination, Retrenchment
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2012
The 1998 Academic Senate for California Community Colleges paper Program Discontinuance: A Faculty Perspective presented issues of program discontinuance and addressed principles and key factors for effective faculty participation in the development of fair and equitable program discontinuance processes. In 2009, an Academic Senate resolution…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Faculty College Relationship, Program Termination
Valliani, Nadia – Campaign for College Opportunity, 2015
In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 209--a ban on the consideration of race in the college admissions process at public universities. This policy brief examines the effects of Proposition 209 at the University of California system by analyzing twenty years' of application, admission, and enrollment data. The brief concludes that in…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Educational Policy, State Universities, College Admission
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Garces, Liliana M. – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
This study examines the effects of affirmative action bans in four states (California, Florida, Texas, and Washington) on the enrollment of underrepresented students of color within six different graduate fields of study: the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, education, and humanities. Findings show that affirmative action…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities
Spaulding, Trent Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The objective of this research is to understand how a set of systems, as defined by the business process, creates value. The three studies contained in this work develop the model of process-based automation. The model states that complementarities among systems are specified by handoffs in the business process. The model also provides theory to…
Descriptors: Automation, Hospitals, Medicine, Drug Therapy
Wasley, Paula – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
When the University of Southern California announced that it would shutter its tiny German department, the outcry was out of proportion to the handful of faculty members and students directly affected by the move. In addition to students who advertised their dismay on Facebook and faculty members who complained that their efforts to bolster the…
Descriptors: German, Departments, College Second Language Programs, Program Termination
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Eddy, Rebecca M.; Berry, Tiffany – American Journal of Evaluation, 2009
Evaluators face challenges when programs consistently fail to meet expectations for performance or improvement and consequently, evaluators may recommend that closing a program is the most prudent course of action. However, the evaluation literature provides little guidance regarding when an evaluator might recommend program closure. Given…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Evaluators, Lobbying, Heuristics
Mattimore, Patrick – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Last week the Board of Regents of the University of California tabled a faculty proposal to broaden the pool of applicants eligible for admission to the 10 campuses in the University of California system. The regents took the action to allow the university's new president, Mark G. Yudof, as well as regents who were uncertain about the proposal,…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Achievement Tests, Governing Boards, College Admission
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2010
The Rostrum is a quarterly publication of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) The Need for full Time faculty (again) by Jane Patton; (2) Reading May Be the Key to Unlocking Basic Skills Success by Janet Fulks; (3) Diversity Institute on the Right Track by Beth Smith; (4)…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Basic Skills, Reading
Paul J. Porwoll – Online Submission, 1979
For half a century, merit pay for teachers has been intensely debated in school systems of various sizes and in virtually every state in the nation. Yet current data on the extent to which merit pay and incentives are actually used in education have not been available. To help fill this void, Educational Research Service conducted the most…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, School Personnel, Incentives, Compensation (Remuneration)
Children Now, Oakland, CA. – 1998
After 10 years of development, the California Statewide Automated Child Support System, run by the Department of Social Services (DSS), has been scrapped and the state has begun developing a new child support collection computer. This report evaluates the performance of publicly-funded child support collection programs in California, examining the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Child Support, Child Welfare, Children
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