Learners benefit from the realignment through enhanced program identity, expanded learning community opportunities, and increased emphasis on anytime, anyplace, and anyway learning. With completion of a major overhaul of the college's computer systems, students can register at any CCD campus for any CCD course. The realignment provides faculty with increased support for multidisciplinary work and multiple delivery options. Faculty also receive expanded entrepreneurial opportunities, and they may choose to work at more than one location. CCD's realignment allows greater flexibility for faculty and staff to work together in ad hoc groups across any perceived boundaries or barriers of centers, campuses, or disciplines.
Groups form as they are needed, move the work forward, and then disband.
As the college fully integrated the branch campuses and moved from six instructional divisions to five instructional centers , job responsibilities and commensurate authority shifted. Campus directors are faculty who provide the venue for instruction, hold responsibility for facilities management, implement their respective campus budgets, report to the dean for the Center for Learning Outreach for daily administration, and report to center deans for curriculum and faculty endeavors. Moving from Now to Beyond The realignment of the instruction unit affected the entire college in unanticipated ways, especially during its first semester. For example, new codes were needed in the college's student information system to allow for the scheduling of classes at new centers, at newly renamed campuses, and in other campus buildings. Changes also needed to be made in CCD's accounting cost centers to reflect the new instructional centers and new cost center administrators.