(a) (1) The California Online Community College is hereby established. (2) The California Online Community College shall be under the administration of the board of governors. (3) The California Online Community College shall fulfill the purposes of this part, which includes the creation of an organized system of accessible, flexible, and high-quality online content, courses, and programs focused on providing industry-valued credentials compatible with the vocational and educational needs of Californians who are not currently accessing higher education. These courses and programs shall lead to a pathway offered at a traditional community college. (4) The college shall be considered a district and community college within the California Community Colleges system and the stateâs public system of higher education. (5) For purposes of Section 14 of Article IX and Sections 8 and 8.5 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, âcommunity college districtsâ shall include the California Online Community College established pursuant to paragraph (1). (b) The college shall be guided by principles and procedures developed by the chancellorâs office and established by the board of governors. These guiding principles shall include all of the following: (1) Offering working adults additional access to affordable, quality higher education opportunities with labor market value, especially industry-valued credentials based on competencies leading to employment, earnings gain, or upward mobility in the workplace, and not just courses leading to degrees and certificates. (2) Providing working adults with the necessary conditions for success with flexible course scheduling, start and stop-off times, technology-enabled support communities to deepen engagement and foster social belonging, and short-term credentials as demonstrations of academic progress. (3) Supporting student success by developing and implementing innovative teaching and student support methodologies and technologies, including leveraging student data to improve teaching and learning and to support individual student progression, providing quality onboarding of students to support their career exploration, goal-setting, educational planning, and support needs, and leveraging relevant technology resources where possible. (4) Enhancing systemwide student success efforts by using the collegeâs innovative teaching and student support methodologies and technologies to inform professional development opportunities available to the rest of the community college system. (5) Ensuring faculty roles are based on the skills needs of the college, such as online instructors, course developers, assessment developers, student mentors, reviewers, and 24-hour virtual classroom support, and ensuring flexible hiring processes that emphasize use of part-time and full-time faculty with field expertise to support emerging programs and shifts in labor market demand. (6) Addressing barriers faced by working adult students to access higher education, including, but not necessarily limited to, financial aid support, dealing with working learnersâ prior educational debts that may impede release of transcripts and credits, pathway navigational help, contextualized academic preparation, navigation of family needs and other supports, and coaching and mentoring. (7) Aligning the collegeâs efforts with the broader goals outlined in the California Community Colleges systemâs Vision for Success, or other strategic visions outlined by the board of governors, and holding the college accountable for its studentsâ outcomes and ensuring improved data collection on employment outcomes. (8) Offering working adults additional access to affordable, high-quality higher education opportunities with labor market value that lead to additional educational opportunities provided by either the California Online Community College or by another California community college. (c) The college may collaborate and wo
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