Greetings!
Today, we are proud to announce our sponsorship of priority transfer legislation, AB 928, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman.
AB 928 will strengthen and transform transfer in California so that more California Community College students can reach their goal of earning a bachelor’s degree by simplifying the path to transfer for students and building on the framework of the Associate Degree for Transfer (ADT).
AB 928 would:
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Establish an intersegmental implementation committee to hold campuses accountable and enable a statewide focus on simplifying transfer. The creation of an intersegmental implementation committee is vital to ensuring coordination among institutions.
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Consolidate the two existing general education pathways into one that meets admission requirements at both the CSU and UC.
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Automate the placement of all community college students onto an ADT pathway intended for their major. In doing so, a student will be placed directly onto the pathway that will maximize their probability of entering and completing a four-year university degree in their chosen field of study in a timely manner, while minimizing the accrual of excess units.
Together with you, we have spent the last ten years working to monitor and strengthen implementation of the ADT so that more students are able to navigate and transfer to a four-year university in a timely fashion. We have been pleased to see the exponential growth in students utilizing the benefits of this pathway. To date, over 280,000 ADTs have been conferred. However, the data is clear: the ADT is still not the preferred pathway by which students achieve their transfer goals, which leaves far too many students without the benefits of a streamlined roadmap to transfer and without guaranteed admission to the CSU.
AB 928 is informed by research, critical conversations with students, campus presidents, campus transfer directors and others, and Assemblymember Berman’s expertise as the Chair of the Select Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education.
