Under proposed legislation in California, public colleges would have to give students credit for online classes they take from private schools.
The bill, proposed by state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, a Democrat, aims to ease the state’s campus overcrowding issues, wherein thousands of students are shut out of packed classes they need to graduate.
“No college student should be denied the right to complete their education because they could not get a seat in the course they needed in order to graduate,” Steinberg said at a news teleconference. “This is not technology for technology’s sake. It addresses a real challenge.”
According to the Oakland Tribune, “SB520 would create approved online courses for the roughly 50 high-demand, lower-level classes that routinely put students on waiting lists.”
High-demand courses are in short supply, particularly at community colleges. Last fall, more than three-quarters of California’s 112 community colleges had wait lists, averaging 7,000 students each.
These new courses — which would be accepted by the UC, CSU and community college systems — would need approval by a faculty panel representing the three systems.
The law would apply only to students who otherwise would be put on waiting lists for courses at their home campuses. The bill is vague about the costs and who would bear them.
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