California Code of Regulations › Title 5 - Education › Division 6 - California Community Colleges › Chapter 2 - Community College Standards › Subchapter 1 - Minimum Conditions › Section 51027 - Transfer Centers: Minimum Program Standards

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The governing board of each community
				  college district shall recognize transfer as one of its primary missions, and
				  shall place priority emphasis on the preparation and transfer of
				  underrepresented students, including African-American, Chicano/Latino, American
				  Indian, disabled, low-income and other students historically and currently
				  underrepresented in the transfer process.
(b) Each community college district governing
				  board shall direct the development and adoption of a transfer center plan
				  describing the activities of the transfer center and the services to be
				  provided to students, incorporating the provisions established in the standards
				  outlined below. Plans shall identify target student populations and shall
				  establish target increases in the number of applicants baccalaureate
				  institutions from these populations, including specific targets for increasing
				  the transfer applications of underrepresented students among transfer students.
				  Plans shall be developed in consultation with baccalaureate college and
				  university personnel as available.
Plan components shall include, but not be limited to:
					 services to be provided to students; facilities; staffing; advisory committee;
					 and evaluation and reporting.
(1)
				  Required Services. Districts shall:
(A)
				  Identify, contact, and provide transfer support services to targeted student
				  populations as identified in the transfer center plan, with a priority emphasis
				  placed on African-American, Chicano/Latino, American Indian, disabled,
				  low-income, and other underrepresented students. These activities shall be
				  developed and implemented in cooperation with student services departments and
				  with faculty.
(B) Ensure the
				  provision of academic planning for transfer, the development and use of
				  transfer admission agreements with baccalaureate institutions where available
				  and as appropriate, and the development and use of course-to-course and major
				  articulation agreements. Academic planning and articulation activities shall be
				  provided in cooperation with student services, with faculty, and with
				  baccalaureate institution personnel as available.
(C) Ensure that students receive accurate and
				  up-to-date academic and transfer information through coordinated transfer
				  counseling services.
(D) Monitor
				  the progress of transfer students to the point of transfer, in accordance with
				  monitoring activities established in the Transfer Center Plan.
(E) Support the progress of transfer students
				  through referral as necessary, to such services as ability and diagnostic
				  testing, tutoring, financial assistance, counseling, and to other instructional
				  and student services on campus as appropriate.
(F) Assist students in the transition
				  process, including timely completion and submittal of necessary forms and
				  applications.
(G) In cooperation
				  with baccalaureate institution personnel as available, develop and implement a
				  schedule of services for transfer students to be provided by baccalaureate
				  institution staff.
(H) Provide a
				  resource library of college catalogs, transfer guides, articulation information
				  and agreements, applications to baccalaureate institutions, and related
				  transfer information.