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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED332768 AUTHOR:
TITLE: The Basic Agenda: Policy Directions and Priorities
for the Nineties.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 21 p.; Presented as agenda item number 13 at a
meeting of the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges (Sacramento, CA, July 11-12, 1991). For
a related document, see JC 910 297.
ABSTRACT: Each year, the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges (CCC) develops and adopts a
Basic Agenda that sets forth current priorities for the 107
college system. Guided by emerging trends and issues, the
1991-92 Basic Agenda constitutes the Board of Governor's
long-range planning document for the 1990's. The report's
introduction describes the most important objectives of the
CCC for the coming decade, which include ensuring
educational quality; developing the system; implementing
the educational legislation of Assembly Bills 3 and 1725;
improving the system's image; accommodating enrollment
demands; fostering diversity; and strengthening
California's economic development efforts. The next six
sections of the report review issues related to general and
transfer education, including educational standards,
English as a second Language (ESL), and basic skills;
economic development and vocational education; student
services; human resources, including staffing, diversity,
and quality; finance; and administration. Proposed
initiatives and recommendations which address each of these
areas are provided, including: (1) implement guaranteed
transfer provisions; (2) offer more ESL and basic skills
courses; (3) increase contract training programs; (4)
attract qualified faculty from business and industry; (5)
hold chief executive officers accountable for affirmative
action in faculty and staff hiring; and (6) consider child
care as a priority in college capital outlay. (PAA)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action;
College-Administration;
Community-Colleges; Educational-Finance;
Educational-Trends;
Futures-of-Society; Governing-Boards; Labor-Force
Development; Two-Year-Colleges
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Educational-Policy; *Educational-Quality;
*Long-Range-Planning; *Policy-Formation;
*Statewide-Planning
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