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PART 48. COMMUNITY COLLEGES, EDUCATION PROGRAMS [78015. - 79520.]

Part 48 enacted by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1010.

§§ 78015–79520 · 127 sections

  1. CHAPTER 1. Education Programs §§ 78015–78093.2 · 39 sections
    1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 78015–78016 · 2 sections
      • § 78015 (a) (1) The governing board of a community college district, prior to establishing a vocational or occupational training program, shall conduct a job market…
      • § 78016 (a) Every vocational or occupational training program offered by a community college district shall be reviewed every two years by the governing board of the…
    2. ARTICLE 1.3. Agricultural Education Program Quality Criteria §§ 78017–78017.3 · 2 sections
      • § 78017 The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (a) Agriculture is one of the most important industries in California, contributing over sixty-five…
      • § 78017.3 (a) The California Community Colleges Agriculture and Natural Resources Advisory Committee shall identify and develop quality program criteria that may be used…
    3. ARTICLE 1.4. Vocational Education Coordination Plan § 78018 · 1 section
      • § 78018 (a) As a condition of federal funds provided under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.) or any…
    4. ARTICLE 1.5. Contract Education §§ 78020–78023 · 4 sections
      • § 78020 For purposes of this article: (a) “Contract education” means those situations in which a community college district contracts with a public or private entity…
      • § 78021 (a) The governing board of any community college district may establish, or with one or more community college districts may establish, contract education…
      • § 78022 (a) Faculty in all credit and noncredit contract education classes shall be selected and hired according to procedures existing in a community college district…
      • § 78023 (a) Nonprofit public benefit corporations that are not organized as auxiliary organizations pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 72670) of Chapter 6…
    5. ARTICLE 2. Interdistrict Attendance §§ 78030–78034 · 5 sections
      • § 78030 (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) Many community college students desire to attend, and do attend, community colleges outside their…
      • § 78031 (a) Subject to Article 1 (commencing with Section 76000) of Chapter 1 of Part 47, a district resident, as defined for purposes of Part 41 (commencing with…
      • § 78032 (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges may, pursuant to a finding that one or more of the following concerns in any community college…
      • § 78033 Nothing in this act shall abrogate any contract existing between any school districts on the effective date of this chapter. Any contractual provision in any…
      • § 78034 (a) In addition to classification as a resident pursuant to Section 68040, each community college student shall be classified as either a district resident or…
    6. ARTICLE 3. Baccalaureate Degree Program §§ 78040–78043 · 4 sections
      • § 78040 For purposes of this article, “district” means any community college district identified by the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges as…
      • § 78041 Notwithstanding Section 66010.4, and commencing January 1, 2015, the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with the…
      • § 78042 (a) A district shall seek approval to offer baccalaureate degree programs through the appropriate accreditation body. (b) When seeking approval from the Board…
      • § 78043 Baccalaureate degree programs approved by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges pursuant to this article before January 1, 2022, may…
    7. ARTICLE 4. Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program §§ 78050–78052 · 3 sections
      • § 78050 This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program.
      • § 78051 The Zero-Textbook-Cost Degree Grant Program is hereby established to reduce the overall cost of education for students and decrease the time it takes students…
      • § 78052 (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that community college districts develop and implement zero-textbook-cost degrees and develop open educational…
    8. ARTICLE 5. California Community College Teacher Credentialing Partnership Pilot Act §§ 78060–78061 · 2 sections
      • § 78060 This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Community College Teacher Credentialing Partnership Pilot Act.
      • § 78061 (a) The California Community College Teacher Credentialing Partnership Pilot Program is hereby established for both of the following purposes: (1) To encourage…
    9. ARTICLE 6. Support Services for Justice-Involved Students §§ 78070–78076 · 7 sections
      • § 78070 For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Justice-involved” means a person who is currently or formerly incarcerated in a California…
      • § 78071 (a) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges may establish a program to enter into agreements with community colleges to provide…
      • § 78072 The board of governors shall adopt regulations for the Rising Scholars Network that fulfill the following goals and guidance: (a) Participating colleges…
      • § 78073 The board of governors shall be responsible for the administration of funds for the Rising Scholars Network. To the extent possible, services provided under…
      • § 78074 The board of governors may authorize the chancellor, consistent with the requirements the board may impose, to designate up to 5 percent of the funds allocated…
      • § 78075 Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, on or before December 31, 2023, and every two years thereafter, the board of governors shall submit a…
      • § 78076 This article shall be operative in a fiscal year only if funds have been appropriated for purposes of this article for that fiscal year by the Legislature in…
    10. ARTICLE 7. Hire UP Program §§ 78080–78084 · 5 sections
      • § 78080 This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Hire UP Pilot Program.
      • § 78081 (a) The Hire UP Pilot Program is hereby established, to be administered by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, for purposes of…
      • § 78082 (a) (1) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before March 1, 2025, and annually thereafter until…
      • § 78083 Funding for the Hire UP pilot program shall be subject to appropriation by the Legislature for purposes of this article, up to a total of thirty million…
      • § 78084 This article shall become inoperative on March 15, 2029, and as of January 1, 2030, is repealed.
    11. ARTICLE 8. The Community College Student Access, Retention, and Debt Cancellation Program § 78090 · 1 section
      • § 78090 (a) The Community College Student Access, Retention, and Debt Cancellation Program is hereby established. (b) The Chancellor of the California Community…
    12. ARTICLE 9. Credit for Prior Learning Initiative §§ 78093–78093.2 · 3 sections
      • § 78093 This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Credit for Prior Learning Initiative.
      • § 78093.1 For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply: (a) “Campus” means a campus of the California Community Colleges. (b) “Chancellor’s office”…
      • § 78093.2 (a) Building upon the California Mapping Articulated Pathways Initiative, the chancellor’s office shall support the Credit for Prior Learning Initiative as a…
  2. CHAPTER 1.5. Library Services §§ 78100–78103 · 3 sections
    • § 78100 The governing board of each community college district shall provide library services for the students and faculty of the district by establishing and…
    • § 78101 The board of governors shall adopt standards, rules, and regulations for community college library services.
    • § 78103 The libraries shall be open for the use of the faculty and the students of the community college district during the day. In addition, the libraries may be…
  3. CHAPTER 2. Courses of Study §§ 78210–78300 · 31 sections
    1. ARTICLE 1. Student Matriculation §§ 78210–78219 · 13 sections
      • § 78210 This article shall be known and may be cited as the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012.
      • § 78211 It is the intent of the Legislature to do all of the following: (a) Ensure equal education opportunity for all Californians. (b) Provide students with the…
      • § 78211.5 (a) The purpose of the Seymour-Campbell Student Success Act of 2012 is to increase California community college student access and success by providing…
      • § 78212 (a) (1) For purposes of this article, “matriculation” means a process that brings a college and a student into an agreement for the purpose of achieving the…
      • § 78212.5 It is the intent of the Legislature that, pursuant to Sections 78213 and 78213.1, all of the following are satisfied: (a) All United States high school…
      • § 78213 (a) A community college district or community college shall not use any assessment instrument for the purposes of this article without the authorization of the…
      • § 78213.1 (a) Beginning July 1, 2023, the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges shall make available on its internet website a dashboard containing…
      • § 78213.2 (a) As used in this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Chancellor’s office” means the office of the Chancellor of the California Community…
      • § 78214 (a) All participating districts shall, with the assistance of the chancellor, establish and maintain institutional research to evaluate the effectiveness of…
      • § 78215 (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with students, faculty, student service administrators, and other key…
      • § 78216 (a) The Legislature recognizes that community college districts are currently funding various components of student matriculation through existing orientation,…
      • § 78218 In the 2012–13 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, this article shall be operative only if funds are specifically appropriated for the purposes of…
      • § 78219 (a) The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall establish a common assessment system to be used as one of multiple measures, consistent…
    2. ARTICLE 1.5. Student Equity Plans §§ 78220–78222 · 4 sections
      • § 78220 (a) As a condition for receiving Student Success and Support Program funding, and in order to ensure equal educational opportunities and to promote student…
      • § 78221 The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall allocate funds provided for purposes of successfully implementing the activities and goals specified…
      • § 78221.5 As a condition for receiving funding pursuant to the Student Equity and Achievement Program established by Section 78222, a community college shall do all of…
      • § 78222 (a) (1) The Student Equity and Achievement Program is hereby established. (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that funds for the Student Equity and…
    3. ARTICLE 2. Athletic Programs § 78223 · 1 section
      • § 78223 The governing board of a community college district may enforce rules and regulations relating to eligibility for and participation in intercollegiate…
    4. ARTICLE 3. Work-Experience Education § 78249 · 1 section
      • § 78249 (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of this code or the Labor Code to the contrary, the community college district under whose supervision work-experience…
    5. ARTICLE 3.51. Nursing Faculty § 78260 · 1 section
      • § 78260 (a) (1) In order to further the state’s interests in a major expansion in the number of educated nurses in California, the Legislature finds that it is…
    6. ARTICLE 3.52. Nursing Students §§ 78261–78261.5 · 3 sections
      • § 78261 (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the following: (1) The Legislature intends to facilitate both the expansion of associate degree nursing programs…
      • § 78261.3 Notwithstanding any other provision of law: (a) Any community college district, irrespective of whether it participates in the program established by this…
      • § 78261.5 (a) A community college registered nursing program that determines that the number of applicants to that program exceeds its capacity may admit students in…
    7. ARTICLE 3.53. Nursing Resource Centers § 78262 · 1 section
      • § 78262 (a) The Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges shall fund the development of regional nursing resource centers that bring together school,…
    8. ARTICLE 3.54. Allied Health Programs §§ 78263–78263.3 · 4 sections
      • § 78263 As used in this article, “allied health program” means a community college program that offers certificates or degrees related to allied health professionals,…
      • § 78263.1 (a) A community college allied health program that determines that the number of applicants to that program exceeds its capacity may admit students in…
      • § 78263.2 Notwithstanding any other law: (a) A community college district may use any diagnostic assessment tool that is commonly used in allied health programs and is…
      • § 78263.3 This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.
    9. ARTICLE 4. Aviation § 78271 · 1 section
      • § 78271 The State Department of Transportation is authorized to make available to community colleges offering actual flight experience as part of the regular…
    10. ARTICLE 4.5. Teacher Preparation Programs § 78275 · 1 section
      • § 78275 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) There is a significant teacher shortage in California and the nation. (2) The teacher shortage…
    11. ARTICLE 7. Community Service Classes § 78300 · 1 section
      • § 78300 (a) The governing board of a community college district may, without the approval of the board of governors, establish and maintain community service classes…
  4. CHAPTER 3. Adult Schools §§ 78401–78402 · 2 sections
    1. ARTICLE 1. General Provisions §§ 78401–78402 · 2 sections
      • § 78401 (a) The governing board of a community college district may, with the approval of the board of governors, establish and maintain classes for adults for the…
      • § 78402 (a) The chancellor’s office, in conjunction with the department, as part of the report and recommendations required pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision…
  5. CHAPTER 7. Instructional Materials §§ 78900–78907 · 2 sections
    1. ARTICLE 1. Prohibited Acts §§ 78900–78907 · 2 sections
      • § 78900 (a) No publisher or manufacturer of instructional materials, nor any of his or her representatives, shall offer or give any emolument, money, or other valuable…
      • § 78907 The use by any person, including a student, of any electronic listening or recording device in any classroom without the prior consent of the instructor is…
  6. CHAPTER 8. College Terms §§ 79020–79030 · 3 sections
    1. ARTICLE 3. Holidays and Observances §§ 79020–79030 · 3 sections
      • § 79020 Except as otherwise provided, the community colleges shall continue in session or close on specified holidays as follows: (a) The community colleges shall…
      • § 79021 Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, whenever the Governor appoints any other day as a holiday and does not provide for the closing of the…
      • § 79030 Whenever climatic conditions of a community college district are such as to render it necessary that the colleges be closed as early in the year as possible or…
  7. CHAPTER 9. Miscellaneous §§ 79120–79520 · 47 sections
    1. ARTICLE 1. Child Development Centers §§ 79120–79121 · 2 sections
      • § 79120 The governing board of any community college district may establish and maintain a child development center on or near each community college campus pursuant…
      • § 79121 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a child under two years of age whose parent is a student, or whose parents are students, may attend child…
    2. ARTICLE 3. Industry, Internship, Apprenticeship, and Preapprenticeship Programs §§ 79140–79149.7 · 14 sections
      • § 79140 The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) A consensus exists among employment training professionals, economists, and industry experts…
      • § 79144 For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply: (a) “Apprenticeship program standards” means the written document containing, among…
      • § 79146 (a) To the extent sufficient resources exist, the board of governors may establish internship training programs and actively support apprenticeship and…
      • § 79148 To the extent that sufficient federal funds and other resources are available, the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial…
      • § 79148.1 (a) The California Apprenticeship Initiative (CAI) New and Innovative Grant Program is hereby established, under the administration of the Chancellor of the…
      • § 79149 (a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall be responsible for allocating funds for apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs in good…
      • § 79149.1 (a) Attendance of apprentices enrolled in any class offered for community college credit by a community college in collaboration with an apprenticeship program…
      • § 79149.2 (a) An apprentice or preapprentice attending community college in classes of instruction pursuant to approved standards as provided pursuant to Section 3074 of…
      • § 79149.25 A student enrolled in a community college class or classes pursuant to an apprenticeship training program or an internship training program who does not have a…
      • § 79149.3 (a) The reimbursement rate for related and supplemental instruction reimbursed pursuant to this article shall be established in the annual Budget Act and the…
      • § 79149.4 For purposes of the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program, a class of related and supplemental instruction that qualifies for funding pursuant to…
      • § 79149.5 (a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in consultation with the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial…
      • § 79149.6 (a) The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations, in consultation…
      • § 79149.7 The Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the Division of Apprenticeship Standards of the Department of Industrial Relations, in consultation…
    3. ARTICLE 4. Cooperative Agencies Resources for Education Program §§ 79150–79155 · 5 sections
      • § 79150 The Chancellor’s office of the California Community Colleges, in cooperation with the State Department of Social Services and the State Employment Development…
      • § 79151 Each community college district specified in Section 79150 may apply for the funds pursuant to this article. Each district shall demonstrate that all existing…
      • § 79152 Participants in cooperative agencies resources for education programs shall be at least 18 years of age, be a single head-of-household, be receiving Aid to…
      • § 79154 The Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, in conjunction with the State Department of Social Services and the State Employment Development…
      • § 79155 For the 1983–84 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, this article shall be operative only if funds are specifically appropriated for the purposes of…
    4. ARTICLE 5. CalWORKs Recipients Education Program §§ 79200–79209 · 10 sections
      • § 79200 (a) There is in the California Community Colleges the CalWORKs Recipients Education Program. (b) As used in this article, “CalWORKs recipient” means a…
      • § 79201 It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this article to assist CalWORKs recipients prepare for employment.
      • § 79202 To the extent that funding is provided in the annual Budget Act, a community college shall receive funding for educational services provided to CalWORKs…
      • § 79203 To the extent that funding is provided in the annual Budget Act, funds received by a community college for curriculum development or redesign for CalWORKs…
      • § 79204 (a) In addition to the funding received pursuant to Section 79202, and to the extent that funding is provided in the annual Budget Act, a community college…
      • § 79205 (a) Funds allocated pursuant to Section 79204 for the purposes of subsidized child care shall be utilized only for children of CalWORKs recipients through…
      • § 79206 (a) Funds allocated pursuant to Section 79204 may be used to provide additional sections of credit or noncredit classes for CalWORKs recipient students if the…
      • § 79207 (a) As a condition of continued receipt of the funds allocated pursuant to Section 79204, by the fourth week following the end of the semester or quarter term…
      • § 79208 (a) First priority for expenditures of any funds allocated in Section 79204 shall be for the support of current CalWORKs recipients. (b) If the needs of…
      • § 79209 (a) If a community college district is unable to fully expend its share of funds allocated for child care pursuant to Section 79204, it may request that the…
    5. ARTICLE 6. Grants for Worksite-Based Training Programs § 79210 · 1 section
      • § 79210 (a) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall award grants to community college districts for the purpose of developing curricula…
    6. ARTICLE 7. Support Services for Foster Youth Attending Community College §§ 79220–79228 · 10 sections
      • § 79220 (a) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges may enter into agreements with community college districts to provide, and allocate to…
      • § 79221 (a) A community college district that wishes to participate in this program shall submit a letter of interest to participate to the board of governors for…
      • § 79222 A student participant in the program shall meet both of the following requirements: (a) Be a current or former foster youth in California whose dependency was…
      • § 79223 The board of governors shall adopt regulations that authorize the director of the Community College Extended Opportunity Programs and Services at each…
      • § 79223.5 All current and former foster youth who meet NextUp eligibility criteria specified in Sections 79222 and 79223 are eligible to enroll in the NextUp program and…
      • § 79224 It is the intent of the Legislature that, consistent with the requirements and intent outlined in subdivisions (b) and (c) of Section 78215, and to the extent…
      • § 79225 (a) The board of governors, in consultation with the State Department of Social Services, shall adopt regulations for the program. The board of governors shall…
      • § 79226 Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, commencing March 31, 2020, and every two years thereafter, the board of governors shall submit a report…
      • § 79227 This article shall be operative in a fiscal year only if funds have been appropriated for purposes of this article for that fiscal year.
      • § 79228 The board of governors may authorize the chancellor, consistent with the requirements the board may impose, to designate up to 1 percent of the funds allocated…
    7. ARTICLE 8. Foster and Kinship Care Education Program § 79420 · 1 section
      • § 79420 Funds appropriated to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for the Foster and Kinship Care Education Program shall be used for resource…
    8. ARTICLE 9. Advanced Placement Credit § 79500 · 1 section
      • § 79500 (a) The office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges shall, in collaboration with the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, do…
    9. ARTICLE 10. California Community Colleges Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Student Achievement Program §§ 79510–79511 · 2 sections
      • § 79510 As used in this article, unless the context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply: (a) “AANHPI” means Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and…
      • § 79511 (a) (1) The Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Student Achievement Program is hereby established at the California Community…
    10. ARTICLE 11. The Native American Student Support and Success Program § 79520 · 1 section
      • § 79520 (a) The Native American Student Support and Success Program is hereby established under the administration of the office of the Chancellor of the California…