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- Written by: California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office
Chancellor Scott, a former California State Senator who spent much of his political career championing education issues, focused his remarks on the necessity of improving articulation between community colleges and four-year institutions.
“When courses do not transfer from a community college to a four-year institution, students lose valuable time and taxpayers waste a lot of money,” said Chancellor Jack Scott. “Improving how colleges and universities prepare students for transfer is a cost effective strategy for increasing graduation rates. My advice to cash strapped states is to invest a small amount of resources into developing common transfer agreements. Once transfer between systems becomes easy for students to understand, two and four-year colleges will recoup the economic benefits of running more streamlined institutions. In turn, these systems will successfully serve even more consumers.”
A recent study by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office indicated that in the 2007-08 academic year, taxpayers spent about $28 million on excess units taken by students to achieve a bachelor’s degree.
In general, community college students transferring to a California State University graduated with an average of 162 units when the minimum required is 120.
Chancellor Scott has set as one of his top priorities improving transfer rates for students attending California’s 110 community colleges.
Scott supported legislation to permit community colleges to offer an associate degree in a major with the designation for transfer. Studies show transfer students do as well or better than native four-year students in terms of GPA and degree completion.
In Scott’s address he emphasized the need to improve national transfer rates.
Scott maintained that 30 states have some type of formal transfer and articulation policy written into legislation.
He believes that legislative incentives for transfer students, such as increased financial aid packages, guaranteed transfer to four-year institutions and priority admission along with common course numbering, and the automatic transfer of an associate degree will increase the likelihood that students will complete their educational goal.
By the year 2020, President Obama wants America to once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. This target equates to five million new college graduates or certificate holders nationwide.
President Obama’s national goal is supported by HR 3221, or the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009, which establishes three distinct grant programs. One of the three programs, The American Graduation Initiative, is funded at $630 million nationally and designed to increase degree completion.
“During economic downturns, high school graduates are more than twice as likely as college graduates to be unemployed,” said Scott. “Jobs of the future require higher levels of education. By 2025 California will fall approximately one million graduates short of the expected workforce needs. To compete in the new global economy, states must find a way to narrow this workforce gap. I believe this can be achieved, in part, by increasing transfer rates.”
The National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students is affiliated with the University of North Texas and is the leading national association dedicated to promoting transfer student success, advancing transfer research, and facilitating partnerships to enhance transfer.
More than 350 participants from across the country attended in the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students conference. The keynote audience included a mixture of two and four-year college representatives composed of advisors, orientation professionals, enrollment managers, admissions staff, faculty, and mid- to upper level administrators.
Scott, the chancellor of the largest system of higher education in the nation, is gaining a reputation as one of the foremost authorities on the importance of increasing transfer rates of community college students. He will speak at the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers annual meeting in Chicago on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010 on the subject of college transfer.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation comprised of 72 districts and 110 colleges serving 2.9 million students per year.
Community colleges supply workforce training and basic skills education and prepare students for transfer to four-year institutions.
The Chancellor’s Office provides leadership, advocacy and support under the direction of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges.
For more information about the community colleges, please visit www.cccco.edu .
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- Written by: Andrea McMullen
This week marks the beginning of the fourth of six, six-week grading periods. Not many schools in the state have six grading periods. The reason that Carlé does this is to more frequently put the students credits and grades in their hands so with the help of their advisors students can take charge of their own credit history and come up with working plans to graduate.
The students would like to thank all the teachers and especially our secretary Barbara who work hard to produce credit checks and full grade reports every three weeks!
Carlé held its annual arm wrestling tournament and we have six winners. The arm wrestling champions included boys division winners, Daniel Alvarez, Mathew Vaughn, Dylan Nevarez and Vincent Copas. In the girls divisions, best friends Bianca Frias and Alex Von Relowski took the championships.
Congratulations to our arm wrestling champs. All were awarded medallions designed and printed by our own Ellie Hackler in our student-based enterprise. The students would like to thank Mr. Maes for refereeing the tournament and Alan for announcing it.
Also the student body would like to thank student council led by Anthony Henson for designing the competition this year, setting up the library for it, making the music, signs, cleanup etc. Our students continue to learn how much goes into carrying out a successful activity.
The student of the week is Leah Davidson. Leah is new at Carlé and is doing exceptionally well. Leah has immediately stepped into a leadership role in student council and has really become a great asset to this school. Keep up the good work Leah!
The silver level award movie was Friday, Jan. 22. All gold level, silver level and bronze level with 100 percent attendance are invited to attend. All are given popcorn and a drink as part of their reward.
With attendance in mind, Alan and Angie two of our teachers, have donated a big TV set for any student who had a 90 percent attendance rate or higher to be in a raffle to win. The two CHILY (Carlé High is liking you) winners were Chris Clark and Yanet Pineta. They each chose a prize picked out and shopped for by our student council.
Carlé's year books went on sale this week! The new yearbooks are $35 so get them while they last! The head designer was Danielle Hudson and Carlé would like to thank her for her hard work and dedication! She is uniquely talented as a designer and many have commented that this yearbook is the
best ever! Thanks go out to Verna Rogers for shepherding the tough job each year that is the yearbook.
The fourth grade period brings us two courses that will help us in life. Angie will be teaching an adult hazmat certification class which will open a lot of doors to our students and we are very grateful to her for taking the time to get certified as an instructor, prepping this intensive class and teaching it for us.
In addition, Steve Hamann who is a certified driving instructor, brings his drivers education class free of charge to those students who need it. This makes Carlé one of the only schools in the county that still offers drivers education as part of its curriculum.
Andrea McMullen is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake.
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Seniors Lexi Nance and Danielle Hudson will have their portfolio celebration on Jan. 21 and Stacey Fedewa successfully completed hers on Jan. 14. Good luck to you, graduates!
We will have our annual arm wrestling tournament on Jan. 20 during lunch and sixth period. Carlé likes to make a big show of it with smoke, card holders, brackets and announcers declaring, “Are you ready to rumble?” It is sure to be great fun! We will announce the winners of our six divisions in a future article.
Carlé would like to give a big thank you to Tim Gill from the Lake County Office of Education for taking the time to come to our school and helping with our academics.
On Jan. 19 our teacher Verna Rogers will take some Carlé students to Mrs. Sullivan's second grade class and interview the elementary students about themselves. Carlé students will then write children's stories with each individual elementary student being the main character.
Verna and her students will return to Mrs. Sullivan's class and give the students their books and share a great time.
Many of you already know that Pat our algebra tutor was in a bad car accident during the summer. We are overjoyed to know that on Feb. 9 she will be returning to us.
We are very grateful to Nicole Sherrell who, in Pat's absence, substituted and helped our students achieve success in, for many, their toughest subject, algebra. Thank you very much, Nicole.
Andrea McMullen is a student at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake.
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Carlé's Odyssey of the Mind team has added two new members: Lisa Davis and Jeremy Burton. This completes their roster for their upcoming competition. The team took a trip to SF which went very well. They visited Japan town and learned about Japanese culture and samurai armor at the Asian Art
Museum. They walked the historical path of Buddha and students were amazed at the art.
Now, they are taking a trip to “Spontaneous Day.” This program help teens and coaches in problem solving. This event will be held on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 12:45 p.m. at Hidden Valley School in Santa Rosa. The team and Carle High School would like to thank Christine Petty and Kathleen Ortega for driving and really supporting the team and our school.
During Carlé's last WASC evaluation the school received the highest accreditation possible, six years. The six years are up and once again Carle will be evaluated through the WASC process. The state will visit the school to do an onsite evaluation this March. The WASC report (self study) is finished and on the way to the state as this article goes to press.
Carlé's whole staff helped put this together overseen and driven by our secretary Barbara Dye and principal Ed Zander. When this process is finished Carlé High will start work on what would be an unprecedented fourth Model School award. Presently Carlé High School is one of the few schools in the history of California to receive model school status three times in a row.
As we approach the end of the third grading period media students are helping to make 29 sustainability awards that were given out after the end of the second grade period. More sustainability awards will be given out to students who have sustained or bettered their high academic levels. The
more grading periods students sustain their high level of academics the more items they receive from our in house design class.
The class often sponsors in house contest and we have just finished and printed the designs of the 10 winners of our coaster contest.
We would like to recognize Stephani Conner whom we failed to acknowledge in our last article for doing a great job singing in our Christmas choir.
Finally, a big thank you goes out to Art Carson of Ingram Books, Lynn of Catfish Books and Tom Hardy for organizing the donation of ten copies of the book “Three Cups of Tea” to our school. The entire student body and staff is very grateful for the generous donation and will use them well.
Andrea McMullen is a student at Carlé High School in Lower Lake.