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AB86 Planning Grant Outcomes
California has the opportunity to rethink and redesign an educational system to establish linkages for students across the California Department of Education and the California Community College Chancellor’s Office adult education systems that provide adults with the academic and career skills needed to enhance student success. To that end, the Legislature and Governor have put in place two unprecedented indicators of California’s commitment to improve adult education.
Regional Consortium
The Consortia’s Guiding Principles:
- Establish and maintain effective communication among stakeholders (educational entities and students), ensure instructional integrity and seamless transitions between educational partners and support student success in achieving their individual goals.
- Provide opportunities for students to select their pathway and implement a framework that emphasizes student-centered learning.
- Establish activities that have practical, real world applications.
Adult Education Block Grant
About Assembly Bill 104: Adult Education Block Grant Funding
South Orange County Community College District (SOCCCD) is the fiscal agent for Assembly Bill (AB) 104 Adult Education Block Grant Funding in a collaborative effort that brings together both Irvine Valley and Saddleback colleges and the five K-12 districts located within the SOCCCD boundary. These local consortia will focus on five program areas including:
Academic Affairs
Welcome to the Academic Affairs Committee
As a subcommittee of the Academic Senate, all Academic Affairs Committee recommendations are forwarded to the Academic Senate for approval.
Academic Affairs Committee Charge (per the IVC Planning and Decision Making Manual, March 2011):
The Representative Council
Charge
This council shall act and speak on behalf of the entire academic senate, that is, the general assembly. The council shall therefore assume the responsibilities of, function as, and bear the title of the Academic Senate, except in those instances in which the general assembly acts in this capacity.
Roster
President | Rebecca Beck |
Vice President | RJ Dolbin |
Vice President of Equity | Henry Carnie |
Chair, Curriculum | RJ Dolbin |
Chair, Academic Affairs | Summer Serpas |
Recorder | Eric Garcia |
Past President | N/A |
Parliamentarian | N/A |
Senate Cabinet
Charge
The officers of the Academic Senate, collectively referred to as the Senate Cabinet, consists of 6 members that serve terms of two years, commencing on the final day of the regular instructional calendar in spring. Senate Cabinet represents the faculty before the governing board and other district and college councils; establishes and guides the agenda of initiatives that that fall under the umbrella of 10+1; appoints faculty to committees; sits on governing bodies, as needed; and assume other responsibilities as directed by the Senate.