Where Is Our Voice with This CCC Student Success Task Force?

Did you know that outside "experts" are rapidly pushing many boneheaded recommendations through to drastically change California's community colleges' missions?
Many ESL professors at community colleges up and down the state are alarmed by some of the proposals, believing that we cannot

• create the kind of "success" narrowly defined in the proposals while ignoring the radical differences between adult ed, noncredit ESL, and credit ESL
• lump ESL indiscriminately with "basic skills" as just remedial courses
• eliminate ESL courses more than one level below English 100 from community colleges

If you are concerned, check your Palomar email for a message sent out last Wednesday by Shayla, president of the Union, and Monica, president of the Senate and participate in a college forum this Thu. The time to make our voices heard is now. The time to act is now.

Additionally, you can share your thoughts publicly or email your comments here. The 72-page "Student Success Task Force Draft Recommendations" can also be accessed by clicking on "Student Success Task Force" on the left panel.