University Senate is asking for feedback on AB928 GE Pathway.

You may have heard that AB 928 – Student Transfer Achievement Reform Act of 2021: Associate Degree for Transfer is now law and the process for implementation is under way. This law requires that the CSU and the UC systems agree on a common lower-division General Education (GE) pathway for transfer from community colleges by May 2023 (no later than December 2023). In this pathway, there will be eleven 3-unit courses plus a 1-unit lab for a total of 34 units, which is a reduction from 39 units of lower-division GE required in the CSU. In addition, the CSU and UC systems currently differ somewhat on the lower-division GE courses that they require, and the systems will need to come to agreement on which GE area and courses will be prioritized as part of the common pathway.

To create this common GE pathway, members of the Executive Committee of the Academic Senate of the CSU (ASCSU) will be negotiating with members of the academic senate of the University of California and the academic senate of the California Community Colleges via a dedicated intersegmental committee (this group already works together through ICAS, the Intersegmental Committee of Academic Senates). To accurately represent the views of CSU faculty, the ASCSU Executive Committee has created a feedback survey to gather data from CSU faculty about their views on general education, especially the GE areas that must remain in the common pathway. We ask that Humboldt faculty complete this survey by the first week of March so that the data can be collated and analyzed by the March ASCSU plenary (3/17-3/18/2022). Click here for the AB928 survey portal link.

There are several open-ended questions in the survey that provide space for faculty to give their opinion about different areas of GE, but if a faculty member would like to submit additional written comments, they can email their comments to Humboldt’s ASCSU senators, Stephanie Burkhalter and Ara Pachmayer, who will share written comments as part of the feedback from Humboldt. If an administrator or staff member would like to add their input, we request that they do so via email so that the survey data remain a reflection of the ideas of CSU faculty. Students can submit their AB928 feedback to their advocates in the California State Student Association.

Thank you for your participation in this effort,

Stephanie Burkhalter (stephanie.burkhalter@humboldt.edu)
Ara Pachmayer (ara.pachmayer@humboldt.edu)
Monty Mola, General Faculty President and University Senate Chair