Section 78220 Of Article 1.5. Student Equity Plans From California Education Code >> Division 7. >> Title 3. >> Part 48. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 1.5.
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. (a) As a condition for receiving Student Success and Support
Program funding, and in order to ensure equal educational
opportunities and to promote student success for all students,
regardless of race, gender, age, disability, or economic
circumstances, the governing board of each community college district
shall maintain a student equity plan that includes all of the
following for each community college in the community college
district:
(1) Campus-based research as to the extent of student equity by
gender and for each of the following categories of students:
(A) Current or former foster youth.
(B) Students with disabilities.
(C) Low-income students.
(D) Veterans.
(E) Students in the following ethnic and racial categories, as
they are defined by the United States Census Bureau for the 2010
Census for reporting purposes:
(i) American Indian or Alaska Native.
(ii) Asian.
(iii) Black or African American.
(iv) Hispanic or Latino.
(v) Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.
(vi) White.
(vii) Some other race.
(viii) More than one race.
(2) Goals for access to, and completion of, basic skills, career
technical education and workforce training, and transfer courses for
the overall student population and for each population group of
high-need or disadvantaged students, and a determination of what
activities are most likely to effectively meet those goals.
(3) Whether significant underrepresentation is found to exist
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2), measures for addressing the
disparities in those areas, implementation activities designed to
attain the goals specified in paragraph (2), including, but not
limited to, the adoption of evidence-based models of remediation,
implementation of placement tests and policies that more accurately
predict student success and identify students' remedial needs, and a
means of coordinating with, at a minimum, the following student
equity-related categorical programs or campus-based programs:
(A) Students with disabilities.
(B) Extended Opportunity Programs and Services and Special
Services.
(C) Fund for Student Success.
(D) Student Success and Support Program.
(E) Programs for foster youth.
(F) Programs for veterans.
(G) Special Services for CalWORKs Recipients.
(H) Student Financial Aid Administration.
(I) Student Success for Basic Skills Students.
(4) Sources of funds for the activities in the plan.
(5) A schedule and process for evaluation.
(6) An executive summary that includes, at a minimum, the students
groups for whom goals have been set, the goals, the initiatives that
the community college or community college district will undertake
to achieve these goals, the resources that have been budgeted for
that purpose, and the community college district official to contact
for further information. Commencing with 2016-17 academic year, the
executive summary shall also include a detailed accounting of how
funding was expended and an assessment of the progress made in
achieving the identified goals.
(b) Student equity plans shall be developed with the active
involvement of all groups on campus as required by law, including,
but not limited to, the academic senate, academic faculty and staff,
student services, and students, and with the involvement of
appropriate people from the community.
(c) The plan shall be adopted by the governing board of the
community college district and submitted to the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges on or before January 1, 2015, who shall
publish all executive summaries, sending copies to the appropriate
policy and budget committees of the Legislature, the Department of
Finance, every community college and community college district, each
consultation group identified in subdivision (b) that so requests,
and additional individuals and organizations as deemed appropriate.
(d) The plan shall be updated every three academic years and plan
updates shall be submitted to the Chancellor of the California
Community Colleges for publication and distribution as provided for
in subdivision (c).