Cal. Educ. Code § 78212.5
Student Matriculation
Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2023
As of January 1, 2011
Each community college district may develop and maintain all of the following within each community college in the district:
(a) Career resource and placement centers having the purposes of maintaining information on vocational, technological and educational opportunities, and facilitating career employment.
(b) Programs to instruct appropriate staff and faculty members in the performance of matriculation services.
(c) Orientation programs designed to explain to new students academic requirements and other regulations of the community college, and the available student support services.
(d) A publicity program designed to inform the community served by the community college that the purposes of the mandatory matriculation process are intended to facilitate, rather than restrict, student access to community college instruction, and to enhance each student’s awareness of his or her abilities, skills, and potential.
(e) A publicity program designed to inform high schools in the community served by the community college, through orientation programs and other means, of student skill levels, and of available student support services.
It is the intent of the Legislature that, pursuant to Sections 78213 and 78213.1, all of the following are satisfied:
(a) All United States high school graduate students and those who have received a high school equivalency certificate, regardless of background or special population status, who plan to pursue a certificate, degree, or transfer program offered by the California Community Colleges, shall be directly placed into, and, when beginning coursework in English or mathematics, shall be enrolled in, transfer-level English and mathematics courses if their program requires mathematics or English.
(b) California community colleges shall place and enroll students into transfer-level mathematics or English coursework that satisfies a requirement of the student’s intended certificate or associate degree or a requirement for transfer within their intended major.
(c) When the California State University and University of California systems require mathematics or English prerequisites, both of the following apply:
(1) Community colleges shall determine the methods of fulfilling the prerequisite, whether it be through high school coursework, completion of corequisite coursework or concurrent support activity, credit by examination, credit for prior learning, or multiple measures placement into, or completion of, a course with the same or higher prerequisite.
(2) The California State University shall, and the University of California is requested to, work collaboratively with the California Community Colleges to maintain articulation of courses successfully completed at the California Community Colleges.
(d) California community colleges create the largest opportunities possible for access to transfer-level courses, ensure the greatest enrollment possible into those courses, and provide students the support they need to perform well and be successful in completing those courses.
(e) In order to protect the rights of students with disabilities to fully benefit from participation in postsecondary educational programs, students with documented disabilities shall retain access to educational assistance classes, as described in Section 56028 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations, that are offered to students who otherwise would not be able to benefit from general college classes even with appropriate academic adjustments, auxiliary aids, and services.
(f) Notwithstanding this article, community colleges remain responsible for implementing state and federal laws pertaining to funding and providing services to students with disabilities, including, but not limited to, Chapter 14 (commencing with Section 67300) of Part 40 of Division 5, the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 701 et seq.), as amended, and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 12101 et seq.), as amended.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.