Statewide Career Pathways

Creating School to College Articulation

In September 2005 Senator Scott's Vocational Education legislation, SB 70, was chaptered into the Education Code section 88532. The bill focuses on improving the linkages and career-technical pathways between high school and California community colleges. Most of the community college response to the legislation will occur through programs coordinated directly from the System Office, and personnel there have begun to inform colleges about some of their plans. However, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges will design and implement one project called Statewide Career Pathways: Creating School to College Articulation.

Statewide Career Pathways: Creating School to College Articulation will provide an opportunity for high school and college faculty to meet, collaborate and develop articulation agreements. Agreements that result will vary by discipline and may include alignment of course skills, concepts and sequences, advanced placement possibilities and credit by examination options. While our schools and colleges have already participated in many efforts to align curriculum and develop articulation agreements especially through Tech Prep programs, faculty have indicated several unmet needs which this project will address. This project will:

• Develop a database of articulation agreements, accessible across the state.
• Provide opportunities and support for faculty at schools and colleges to meet and develop agreements.
• Create outreach strategies to encourage participation of students, parents and schools/college personnel.

The project will be led by a steering committee with members from community college and high school faculty and administration, the California Department of Education, the System Office for the California Community Colleges, Tech Prep and ROCPs. The committee is beginning its work in July 2006. The project is funded in part by the California Community Colleges for two years for a total of $4 million.

For information about the project, please contact the faculty coordinator, Michelle Pilati at mpilati@riohondo.edu, Katey Lewis at katey@asccc.org or the Academic Senate Office at (916) 445-4753.

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