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This page contains Best Practices from various California Community Colleges who have given us permission to share their innovative ideas and practices with you. They have been placed in alphabetical order on the page for your convenience. If you have a successful Best Practice used at your community college that you would like to share it with your CCC colleagues contact the webmaster at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Featured Link(s) of the Month:

Northern California Event Calendar     Northern California Host Contacts   
Southern California Host Contacts         Running Participant Reports Instructions
(All found under item 17)

  1. AP Chart - (Santa Monica) This chart is designed so you can customize it for your own campus use. To get an idea of how to fill the chart out you can view this completed Santa Monica version.
     
  2. Bridging the Gaps to Success: Promising Practices for Promoting Transfer Among Low-Income and First-Generation Students  (11/19/2009) - A report from The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education highlights promising transfer practices at six community colleges in Texas. The six colleges were selected based on an analysis of the transfer rates of low-income and first-generation students, and site visits were conducted to learn more about best practices that led to these results. CCC Transfer Center, Recommended Guidelines. NEW!

  3. California Community College Transfer: Recommended Guidelines has been moved to the TCDA-WCCTC page.  CLICK HERE to be redirected.

  4. Centers and/or Programs Funded Through the Chancellor’s Office (Galvin Group LLC) NEW!
    - The High Tech Center Training Unit is a state of the art training and support facility for community college faculty and staff wishing to acquire or improve teaching skills, methodologies, and pedagogy in Assistive Computer Technology, Alternate Media and Web Accessibility. (htctu.fhda.edu) 
    - The Alternate Media Production Center (ATPC) is the first publicly funded, system-wide resource dedicated to serving the alternate media needs of the largest post-secondary educational system in the world. All community colleges in California have equal access to the media services provided by the ATPC. (ATPC.net) 
    - The Galvin Group, LLC provides distance and on-site technical assistance to all 112 community colleges. They maintain website resources and have developed a modular self-paced on-line training program for new DSPS Coordinators. (Galvin Group LLC)  

    - Distance Education Captioning and Transcription (DECT) provides CCCs with funding for live and asynchronous captioning and transcription as a means of enhancing the access of all students to distance education courses. Further, the DECT promotes and supports awareness of available funding as a means to support faculty efforts to develop high-quality, media-rich distance learning courses.(Canyons.edu)  

     

  5. Easing the Transitional Fears About Transferring - Santa Rosa Junior College offers links to the following handouts from Santa Rosa College's "Moving On: Making the Transition to a University" workshop.

    Transfer Transition (.pdf) (TCW)   After Transfer Support (.pdf) (TCW)   UC After Transfer Services (.ppt) (UCOP)
     

  6. Honoring Transfer Students - San Diego Mesa College honors their transfer students with an Annual Transfer Recognition Luncheon.   It is just one way they insure that the college remains involved with the Transfer Culture.  (TCW)
     

  7. In-Class Presentations - Don't Cancel That Class! - is an in-class presentations that affords continued classroom instruction while exposing Transfer Center Programs & Services to the students - Butte College. (TCW)
     

  8. Keeping the Door Open for Transfers - with CSUs through On-The-Spot Admissions (TCW)
     

  9. Open Campus Drop-in - Transfer Talk - Open Drop-in is a new way to expose students to transfer services.  Utilized at the Butte Community College Transfer Counseling Center, this service takes the counselor out of the office and to the students at any time, anywhere on campus. (TCW).
     

  10. Practices with Promise - Practices with Promise is a way that Colleges, along with its partners, identify working solutions that are improving college access, success, and affordability. With 120 submissions from educational institutions throughout the state, this project identifies emerging solutions that can inform educators and policymakers. (collegecampaign.org)
    -   2007 Practices with Promise
    -   2008 Practices with Promise NEW!
     

  11. Promising Practices in Statewide Articulation & Transfer Systems NEW! This report is available free of charge at www.wiche.edu/publications. For more information about this project, please visit www.wiche.edu/stas.

  12. Scholarship Website and Blog - Authored by Eve-Marie Andrews, from the College of the Desert. Finding Money For College (Website).  The Search For Scholarships (Blog)
     

  13. Selected College DSPS Websites that showcase a variety of excellent features and/or provide a wide selection of resources to both students and faculty. (Galvin Group LLC) NEW!

  14. Student Education Plans (SEPs) - Utilized at Butte College for transfer students, these Transfer Student Educational Plans(SEPs) are shared by the Butte CollegeTransfer Counseling Center have been formatted so you can save it to your own PC as a .doc and modify it with your school information. Generic CSU 4-semester SEP.(.doc). Generic IGETC 4-semester SEP. (.doc). (TCW)
     

  15. TCW & Leadership Center - Transfer Counselor Website & Transfer Leadership Center is a project funded by the California Community College System Office. The Transfer Counselor Website project is a well-crafted and up-to-date website designed specifically to support the efforts of transfer counselors across the California Community College system. The website will be a central repository of key information related to effective community college transfer practices, updated transfer admission requirements, counselor conference information, web links and information for public and private universities, transfer related associations and state agencies involved in transfer functions as well as relevant materials, resources and institutional links to help counselors maximize the sharing of transfer information. (sbcc.edu).
     

  16. Transfer Advocate Program - from Santa Rosa JC currently has 325 SRJC faculty and staff representing 100 colleges and 90 majors that have volunteered to share their college experiences with SRJC students interested in transferring to their alma mater or in their field of study. This is especially valuable as a resource for out-of-state colleges. (santarosa.edu)Transfer Center, New Director Training Materials.
     

  17. The link to the Transfer Center New Director Training materials has been moved to the TCDA-WCCTC page.  CLICK HERE to be redirected.
     

  18. Transfer Day & College Night Fairs - Transfer Day/College Night (TD/CN) is hosted by the California Education Roundtable Intersegmental Coordinating Committee (CERTICC). Comprised of campus and Systemwide representatives from California high schools, California Community College Transfer Centers, California State Universities, the Universities of California, and independent colleges and universities, Transfer Day/College NIght provides your students an opportunity to find out what the universities in attendance can offer. (certicc.org)  Here are some handy links to assist you in participating and contact cohorts of the event:

    -  Northern California Event Calendar  NEW!                        -  Southern California Event Calendar
    -  Northern California Host Contacts   NEW!                         -  Southern California Host Contacts   NEW!  
    -  Running Participant Reports Instructions NEW!   
    Please note that the 4 year representatives have until July 30th to register online so any report run before that date may not be complete.             

  19. UCSC C1-C2 Requirements - Identification of the UCSC courses that meet the C1 and C2 requirements by community colleges
     

  20. Veteran Major-specific Transfer Student Educational Plans - The link for the Service Veteran Student Education Plan have been moved to the CCC Student Service Programs page for Veterans.  CLICK HERE to be redirected.
     

  21. VTEA Best Practices - VTEA State Leadership Best Practices Website. 2007/08.  (vteabp.org)

 

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