page_title: Student Senate for the California Community Colleges
section_title: Predecessor organizations
hierarchical_section_title: Student Senate for the California Community Colleges / History / Predecessor organizations
caption_attribution_description: This file contains an image of the logo of California Student Association of Community Colleges (CalSACC). The association was founded in 1987 and it disbanded in 2007.
context_page_description: Student Senate for the California Community Colleges was established in 1988 by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges. SSCCC was originally known as the "Council of Student Body Governments" and then later as the "Student Senate".
  SSCCC operates under the supervision and control of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges. SSCCC promotes and safeguards access for current and future students to California public higher education in accordance with the Master Plan for Higher Education.
context_section_description: The unincorporated SSCCC was established in May 2006. It was preceded by several similar organizations: the California Junior College Association; the California Community College Student Government Association; the Community College Student Lobby; and the California Student Association of Community Colleges (CalSACC).
  CalSACC was established on November 15, 1987. In 1999, CalSACC's membership included 72 community college student body associations.  By 2005, CalSACC's membership had dwindled to just 31 student body associations. And by 2007, CalSACC had become "virtually non-existent". In 2008 CalSACC's remaining assets  were donated to the unincorporated SSCCC. The sum of $57,150.53 was transferred to the SSCCC on June 3, 2008.
  CalSACC had ten organizational subdivisions, which were called "regions".  During the gradual disintegration and ultimate dissolution of CalSACC, its regions continued functioning autonomously. On May 6 and 7, 2006, community college student leaders from throughout California gathered at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Diego, California. They considered several model constitutions for a new statewide student organization.  They adopted constitutional model "E" by a vote of 59 in favor and 11 opposed. That model grouped the former CalSACC regions together under the name "Student Senate for California Community Colleges". Then, each of the ten former CalSACC regions selected two representatives, and those 20 representatives ratified the SSCCC constitution on May 7, 2006.  The former CalSACC regions subsequently changed their names to reflect the fact that they had become regions of the SSCCC.
caption: CalSACC logo.
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