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1.18 CSCC College and Career Success 101 20-099 2020-06-18
1.18 CSCC College and Career Success 101
Research has established that First Year Experience courses must be taken early in a student’s academic career to have the highest impact, that the optimal First Year Experience course is a 3-credit stand-alone class, and that all students, even those who are high-performing or transfer students, benefit from establishing a career path as well as learning the academic and personal skills to be successful students and employees. The Holistic Case Management Advising policy of the Board of Regents requires that all students create a personalized academic and career plan.
The General Education Core for Connecticut State Community College has been established to include competency requirements as well as a diversity requirement.
The learning outcomes of College and Career Success 101 are designed to promote a successful first year, student success, and equity, which are three of the five goals of the Board of Regents.
The Board of Regents for Higher Education directed the Connecticut State Community College, in conjunction with the CSCU System Office through the leadership of the CSCU Provost and Senior Vice
President for Academic and Student Affairs, to:
• Require all Connecticut State Community College programs of study to include the three (3) credit CCS 101 which is focused on college success and career exploration.
• Require all degree-seeking students to enroll in CCS 101 within their first nine (9) credits.
• Ensure that CCS 101 includes a component that meets the general education core diversity requirement, with the acknowledgement that diversity topics should ideally be embedded throughout the General Education core and across the curriculum.
• Ensure that CCS 101 fulfills one of the general education core competencies.
• Make recommendations regarding which programs of study might add CCS 101 as an exception to normalization, in accordance with BOR policy.
• Provide guidance regarding which circumstances allow a student to request exemption from taking CCS 101 with final decisions on exemptions made by campus academic leadership.
• Ensure that CCS 101 is regularly updated to align with the latest research and evidence from the field regarding successful first year experience courses, noting that current research demonstrates that the most successful first year experience courses use pedagogies that promote learning-for-application, use equity-minded pedagogies and inclusive formats, give instructors the tools and structural supports to teach effectively, and substantively link the course to otheracademic courses to improve transfer of learning.
• Provide administrative oversight of CCS 101 to ensure consistency of delivery and outcomes.
All Board of Regents policies are available in their entirety on the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities website.
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