Syllabi Access Toolkit
Syllabi provide the most accurate and detailed information about courses, which is useful to the students when choosing classes and sections. Use the toolkit below to advocate for syllabi access for California community college students!
S20.03.07 Syllabi Access
Sponsors: SSCCC Region IV
Disposition: Regional Affairs and Executive Committees
WHEREAS, past course syllabi are used by transfer institutions to verify credits/prerequisites requirements in disputable cases; and
WHEREAS, the syllabi provide the most accurate and detailed information about the course, which is useful to the students when choosing classes and sections; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges advocate for the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges to work with local academic senates to create a policy to give public access to archives of Course Outlines of Records and past syllabi; and
RESOLVED, that the Student Senate for California Community Colleges urge the individual colleges to include professors’ emails in the course schedule to give students the opportunity to request the most recent tentative syllabus for the future course.
