The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office (Chancellor’s Office) formed the AB 1111 Common Course Numbering Task Force (CCN Task Force) to make recommendations for a systemwide implementation plan. Reflecting the Chancellor’s Office’s participatory governance system, the CCN Task Force included broad and diverse representation from across the system’s 73 districts and 116 colleges. Members reflected key stakeholder groups invested in and intimately knowledgeable about transfer student success, including: community college students; representatives from the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges; administrative leaders, including representatives from the California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers; student service professionals, including student success deans; technology officers; institutional effectiveness researchers; chief executive officers; and trustees. Critically, the CCN Task Force benefited from robust engagement of the California Community College’s four-year transfer partners, the California State University (CSU), University of California (UC), and members of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU). The CCN Task Force was collaboratively led by two co-chairs: Virginia “Ginni” May, Past President of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at Sacramento City College, and Tram Vo-Kumamoto, Past President of the California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers and Vice President of Instruction at Saddleback College.
The CCN Task Force earlier this year released the CCN Task Force report, which details the history of the CCN system in California and why this current CCN effort is different and destined to succeed. The report includes the task force's Recommended Implementation Plan for a student-facing common course numbering system in California that ensures that all students can identify courses across the system as being comparable and therefore transferable and degree-applicable across the California Community Colleges and also to the CSU, the UC and independent colleges and universities in California regardless of the California community college sending institution.
Read the CCN Task Force report.
