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| 1 | | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 41
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The State has a vested interest in maximizing the | 3 | | number of students who complete credit-bearing certificate | 4 | | programs and two-year or four-year degree programs and enter | 5 | | into high-skill, high-wage occupations; and | 6 | | WHEREAS, 46% of Illinois high school graduates who enroll | 7 | | in community college are placed into developmental coursework | 8 | | in at least one subject; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, Inconsistent and inadequate approaches to | 10 | | placement have resulted in too many students being placed into | 11 | | developmental education who could succeed in college-level | 12 | | coursework; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, The traditional developmental education model | 14 | | costs students time, money, and financial aid; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, Developmental education does not count as college | 16 | | credit and can be a barrier to retention, persistence, | 17 | | transfer, and certificate or degree completion, particularly | 18 | | for Black, Latino, first generation, and low-income students; | 19 | | and | 20 | | WHEREAS, There are instructional models of developmental |
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| 1 | | education that have demonstrated improvement in college-level | 2 | | course completion compared to traditional models, including | 3 | | but not limited to corequisite remediation, accelerated | 4 | | coursework, emporium models, and Preparatory Mathematics for | 5 | | General Education (PMGE); and | 6 | | WHEREAS, Colleges and universities have invested | 7 | | significant time, resources, and money into these different | 8 | | developmental education models; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, The legislature has made significant investments | 10 | | to improve college preparedness; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois Council of Community College | 12 | | Presidents, the Illinois Chief Academic Officers, the Illinois | 13 | | Chief Student Services Officers, and the Illinois Math | 14 | | Association of Community Colleges have already agreed upon a | 15 | | common, multiple measures framework for placement that is | 16 | | currently being implemented; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, To ensure all models of developmental education | 18 | | are maximizing students' likelihood of success, the State must | 19 | | inventory and evaluate all developmental education | 20 | | instructional models offered in the State; and | 21 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois Community College Board and Illinois |
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| 1 | | Board of Higher Education are well positioned to improve | 2 | | placement practices and fully scale developmental education | 3 | | reforms across all State public institutions; therefore, be it | 4 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL | 5 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES | 6 | | CONCURRING HEREIN, that the Illinois Community College Board | 7 | | and the Illinois Board of Higher Education shall establish a | 8 | | joint advisory council to provide a benchmarking report to the | 9 | | General Assembly on or before April 1, 2020, that shall | 10 | | include: | 11 | | (1) An inventory of all instructional models and | 12 | | developmental course sequences employed by Illinois' | 13 | | public colleges and universities for students placed into | 14 | | developmental education or otherwise determined to need | 15 | | additional skills development in math or English; | 16 | | (2) An analysis of all instructional models employed by | 17 | | Illinois' public colleges and universities for students | 18 | | placed into developmental education or otherwise | 19 | | determined to need additional skills development in math or | 20 | | English, including, at a minimum, the number and percentage | 21 | | of students completing gateway courses within their first | 22 | | two semesters under each model; and | 23 | | (3) An inventory and analysis of developmental | 24 | | education placement practices and policies (including cut | 25 | | off scores) employed at all public colleges and |
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| 1 | | universities in the State; and be it further | 2 | | RESOLVED, That on or before July 1, 2020, the advisory | 3 | | council must deliver to the Illinois Community College Board, | 4 | | the Illinois Board of Higher Education, and the General | 5 | | Assembly, a detailed plan for scaling developmental education | 6 | | reforms, such that institutions improve developmental | 7 | | education placement measures and such that, within a timeframe | 8 | | to be set by the advisory council, all students who are placed | 9 | | in developmental education are enrolled in a developmental | 10 | | education model that is proven to maximize their likelihood of | 11 | | completing a college-level course within their first two | 12 | | academic semesters; and be it further | 13 | | RESOLVED, That for the purposes of this resolution, | 14 | | "improved placement measures" is defined as measures that give | 15 | | greater opportunities to enroll directly into college-level | 16 | | classes, reducing the overall percent of students placed into | 17 | | developmental education, preferably through decreased reliance | 18 | | on high-stakes tests and increased use of high school GPA as a | 19 | | determining measure; and be it further | 20 | | RESOLVED, The implementation plan should include specific | 21 | | benchmarks and an estimate of funding required to meet | 22 | | established benchmarks that institutions must meet to stay on | 23 | | track to full-scale implementation on the timeframe set by the |
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| 1 | | advisory council; and be it further | 2 | | RESOLVED, That the advisory council should include similar | 3 | | representation from two-year and four-year institutions and, | 4 | | at a minimum, include the following: | 5 | | (1) The Executive Director of the Illinois Community | 6 | | College Board or his or her designee, who shall act as | 7 | | co-chair; | 8 | | (2) The Executive Director of the Illinois Board of | 9 | | Higher Education or his or her designee, who shall act as | 10 | | co-chair; | 11 | | (3) One member appointed by the Governor, who shall act | 12 | | as co-chair; | 13 | | (4) One member from the Illinois Senate appointed by | 14 | | the
President of the Senate, who shall act as co-chair; | 15 | | (5) One member from the Illinois House of | 16 | | Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House, who | 17 | | shall act as co-chair; | 18 | | (6) One member from the Illinois Senate appointed by | 19 | | the Senate Minority Leader; | 20 | | (7) One member from the Illinois House of | 21 | | Representatives appointed by the House Minority
Leader; | 22 | | (8) Two public university employees appointed by the | 23 | | Illinois Board of Higher Education Academic Leadership | 24 | | group; | 25 | | (9) One member who represents an organization that |
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| 1 | | advocates on behalf of public
university employees | 2 | | appointed by the Executive Director of the Illinois Board | 3 | | of Higher Education; | 4 | | (10) One member who represents an organization that | 5 | | advocates on behalf of community
college employees at City | 6 | | Colleges of Chicago appointed by the Executive Director of | 7 | | the Illinois Community College Board; | 8 | | (11) One member who represents an organization that | 9 | | advocates on behalf of community
college employees at a | 10 | | suburban Chicago community college appointed by the | 11 | | Illinois Community College Board; | 12 | | (12) One member who represents an organization that | 13 | | advocates on behalf of community
college employees in | 14 | | downstate community colleges appointed by the Illinois | 15 | | Community College Board; | 16 | | (13) One member representing a higher education | 17 | | advocacy organization focused on closing
equity gaps in | 18 | | college completion from low-income and first generation | 19 | | college students
and students of color appointed by the | 20 | | President of the Senate; | 21 | | (14) One member representing a statewide advocacy | 22 | | organization focused on improving
educational and | 23 | | employment opportunities for women and adults appointed by | 24 | | the
Speaker of the House; | 25 | | (15) One member who represents a statewide | 26 | | organization that advocates on behalf of
Community College |
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| 1 | | Presidents appointed by the Illinois Community College | 2 | | Board; | 3 | | (16) One member who represents public university | 4 | | presidents appointed by the Illinois Board of Higher | 5 | | Education; | 6 | | (17) One member who represents a statewide | 7 | | organization that advocates on behalf of
Community College | 8 | | Chief Academic Officers appointed by the Illinois | 9 | | Community College Board; | 10 | | (18) One member who represents a statewide | 11 | | organization that advocates on behalf of
Illinois | 12 | | Community College Student Services Officers appointed by | 13 | | the Illinois Community College Board; | 14 | | (19) One member who represents public university | 15 | | student services administrators
appointed by the Illinois | 16 | | Board of Higher Education; | 17 | | (20) One member who represents Illinois public | 18 | | university provosts appointed by the Illinois Board of | 19 | | Higher Education; | 20 | | (21) One member who represents a statewide | 21 | | organization that advocates on behalf of
Community College | 22 | | Trustees appointed by the Illinois Community College | 23 | | Board; and | 24 | | (22) One member who represents public university | 25 | | trustees appointed by the Illinois Board of Higher | 26 | | Education; and be it further |
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That, of the appointed community college and | 2 | | university employees, at least one must be an English faculty | 3 | | member participating in the Illinois Articulation Initiative | 4 | | and one must be a member of the Illinois Mathematics | 5 | | Association of Community Colleges (IMACC); and be it further | 6 | | RESOLVED, That the chairs of the advisory council shall be | 7 | | responsible for scheduling meetings, setting meeting agendas, | 8 | | ensuring the development and delivery of the final report and | 9 | | implementation plan, and other administrative tasks, in | 10 | | consultation with advisory council members; and be it further | 11 | | RESOLVED, The Council shall produce a final report by | 12 | | January 1, 2021 and upon the filing of this report is | 13 | | dissolved; the report should include, at a minimum, an update | 14 | | on the implementation of corequisite remediation and | 15 | | alternative evidence-based developmental education models at | 16 | | every college and university, and include data on enrollment | 17 | | and throughput, defined as the percent of students initially | 18 | | enrolled who have progressed through gateway-level courses, by | 19 | | institution and disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, and | 20 | | Pell status; and be it further | 21 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 22 | | delivered to the Illinois Community College Board and the |
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| 1 | | Illinois Board of Higher Education.
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