BILL NUMBER: SB 1737 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 15, 2000
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 30, 2000
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 4, 2000
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 10, 2000
INTRODUCED BY Senator Hayden
FEBRUARY 23, 2000
An act to add Article 8 (commencing with Section 89265) to Chapter
2 of Part 55 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary
education.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1737, as amended, Hayden. Postsecondary education:
Statewide Service Learning and Community Service Center
California State University: service learning .
Existing law establishes a statewide system of public
postsecondary education that includes, among other segments, the
various campuses of the California State University.
This bill would establish a Statewide Service Learning
and Community Service Center for administering a grants program to
establish service learning and community service
require the systemwide Office of Community Service Learning of the
California State University to develop, coordinate, and promote
systemwide and campus service learning courses and centers on
the campuses of the California State University. The bill would
prescribe the goals and duties of the Statewide
Service Learning and Community Service Center
systemwide Office of Community Service Learning .
The bill would establish a Service Learning and Community Service
Grant Program, under which funds would be made available for
allocation, on a competitive basis, to individual campus service
learning and community service programs that raise a specified level
of matching funds.
The bill would require the California Postsecondary Education
Commission to be responsible for selecting and monitoring an entity
to administer the grant program and the Statewide Service Learning
and Community Service Center.
These provisions would become operative only if funds for those
purposes are appropriated in the Budget Act of 2000.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(1) Service learning and community service are essential to
meeting community needs, improving the quality of life, and the
enrichment of democracy.
(2) Service learning and community service programs, such as
tutoring in public schools, have proven effective in improving
educational achievement and decreasing dropout rates.
(3) Service learning and community service by college students
have proven to be significant educational tools in improving student
comprehension of classroom materials, problem-solving skills, and
reflective abilities, while providing significant service to
communities.
(4) Service learning is optimized for students and the community
when it is compensated by work-study funds, fee reductions, or other
sources of funding that offer financial assistance to the student who
is participating in the service learning.
(5) The Governor's "call to service" requests California's public
colleges and universities to establish a community service
requirement for undergraduate students at the University of
California, the California State University, and the California
Community Colleges.
(6) The California State University has adopted a policy of
endorsing campus efforts to make service an expectation, condition,
or requirement of the undergraduate education experience.
(b) It is, therefore, the intent of the Legislature to accomplish
all both of the following:
(1) To encourage the California State University to establish and
expand community service and service learning programs on every
campus in order to improve the quality of higher education and
contribute a major public service to the people of California.
(2) To provide funding for service learning programs as
part of the annual budget for the California State University.
(3) To give every student attending the California State
University the opportunity to participate in a service learning class
or supervised community service, or both. statutory
support and guidelines for service learning courses and centers on
the campuses of the California State University as proposed in the
Governor's Budget for the 2000-01 fiscal year.
SEC. 2. Article 8 (commencing with Section 89265) is added to
Chapter 2 of Part 55 of the Education Code, to read:
Article 8. Service Learning and Community Service Programs
89265. (a) In order to increase the development of
service learning and community service programs at the California
State University, the university shall do all
both of the following:
(a)
(1) Support campus efforts to make service learning or
community service, or both, an expectation, condition, or requirement
of the undergraduate education experience.
(b) Support campus efforts to make service learning or community
service, or both, an expectation, condition, or requirement for its
students' educational experience.
(c)
(2) Submit an annual report to the Legislature on the
progress being made in providing and expanding service learning or
community service programs, or both, on the various campuses of the
California State University system.
89265.1. (a) The Statewide Service Learning and Community Service
Center is hereby established to encourage and increase the
development of service learning programs at public and private
colleges and universities.
(b)
(b) The Chancellor of the California State University shall report
annually on the performance of the service learning programs of the
university. These reports shall be submitted to the Governor, the
Legislature, and the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
89265.1. As used in this article:
(1)
(a) "Community service" means focused and supervised
community service carried out in the context of academic education
and not integrated into the curriculum.
(2)
(b) "Service learning" means focused and supervised
community service carried out in the context of academic education
and integrated into the curriculum.
(c) The goals of the Statewide Service Learning and Community
Service Center are to accomplish both of the following:
(3) "Systemwide Office of Community Service Learning" means the
systemwide Office of Community Service Learning of the California
State University.
89265.3. The California State University, acting through its
systemwide Office of Community Service Learning, shall establish
service learning courses and centers on its campuses, and shall make
service learning an expectation, condition, or requirement of the
undergraduate experience. The systemwide Office of Community Service
Learning shall develop, coordinate, and promote systemwide and campus
service learning courses and centers.
89265.5. (a) The systemwide Office of Community Service Learning
shall promulgate performance criteria for service learning programs,
including, but not necessarily limited to, criteria related to the
academic achievement of participants, numbers of courses included,
numbers of students enrolled, service learning projects by general
subject matter, types of local agencies or constituencies in
partnerships with service learning programs, and measures of faculty
and student satisfaction.
(b) The goals of the systemwide Office of Community Service
Learning include both of the following:
(1) To encourage and enable the development of service learning
and community service programs that provide the integration of
service into courses and curricula.
(2) To support the development of service learning and community
service centers as hubs and catalysts for the growth of service
learning and community service opportunities.
89265.3. The duties of the Statewide Service Learning and
Community Service Center include, but are not necessarily limited to,
all of the following:
(a) Administration of the Service Learning and Community Service
Grant Program established pursuant to Section 89265.7.
(b) Fostering and promoting the ideals of service
(c) The systemwide Office of Community Service Learning and the
campus learning centers shall seek to integrate resources and
programs with complementary organizations engaged in national or
community service and service learning, including, but not
necessarily limited to, programs such as America Reads, Americorps,
Vista, and the Senior Corps.
89265.7. The systemwide Office of Community Service Learning and
the campus service learning centers shall do all of the following:
(a) Foster and promote the ideals of service learning and
community service programs and encouraging
encourage integration of service learning into curricula.
(c) Undertaking
(b) Undertake regular assessment and evaluation of service
learning and community service programs.
(d) Identifying
(c) Identify potential private, state, local, and federal
sources of funding for service learning and community service
programs.
(e) Recommending
(d) Recommend service learning and community service
policies to the Governor and Legislature.
89265.5. (a) Individual campuses are encouraged to incorporate
service learning into their curricula, to direct existing resources
to compensate students for service learning and community service, to
form local centers for service learning and community service, and
to apply for grants from the Statewide Service Learning and Community
Service Center.
(b)
89265.9. Service learning and community service centers on
individual campuses are encouraged to do all of the following:
(1)
(a) Strengthen the service learning infrastructure at the
campus level by building on existing efforts and coordinating service
learning with existing campus community outreach programs.
(2)
(b) Assist faculty in developing service learning courses.
(3)
(c) Provide administrative and logistical support to offer
high-quality service learning courses and programs.
(4)
(d) Build awareness of service learning on and off campus,
and ensure that all students have access to service opportunities.
(5)
(e) Serve as a liaison between community organizations and
the various campuses of the California State University system.
(6)
(f) Inform community organizations about the ways in which
a campus could serve them.
(7)
(g) Work with community organizations to determine the ways
in which a campus could best assist them.
(8)
(h) Evaluate the effectiveness of service learning and
community service programs in addressing community needs and
promoting student development.
(9)
(i) Engage students in productive and meaningful educational
experiences.
(10)
(j) Provide community service resources for recognized local
organizations that address educational, health, environmental, or
other human needs.
(k) Provide service learning programs that create opportunities
for university students to participate in service learning with
at-risk youth in elementary and secondary schools, continuation
schools, youth camps, and probation programs.
SEC. 3. Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall become operative only
if funds are appropriated for the purposes of those sections in the
Budget Act of 2000.
89265.7. (a) A Service Learning and Community Service Grant
Program is hereby established. Under the grant program, state
matching funds shall be allocated to individual service learning and
community service programs at campuses of the California State
University, as administered by the Statewide Service Learning and
Community Service Center established pursuant to Section 89265.1.
(b) The Statewide Service Learning and Community Service Center
shall approve grants in a competitive process, and shall base grant
amounts on the size of the campus student population and the proposed
magnitude of the service learning and community service programs.
Grants provided under this article may be expended for administrative
costs and compensation, transportation, and other necessary costs
incurred by service learning and community service student
participants. The matching fund ratio shall be 80 percent from state
funds and 20 percent from individual campus funds.
(c) Priority in awarding grants shall be given to campuses that
demonstrate an interest in increasing and strengthening service
learning and community service opportunities and programs, and to
service learning and community service programs that address
educational needs in one or more of the following programs, although
other types of service learning opportunities shall be encouraged:
(1) Elementary and secondary schools.
(2) Continuing education schools.
(3) Youth camps.
(4) Probation programs.
(d) Campuses and service learning and community service programs
applying for grants shall demonstrate collaboration with community
partners.
89266. (a) Each campus of the California State University
receiving a grant under Section 89265.7 shall plan to assume support
of its service learning center over time. Grant applicants shall
present a financial plan for independently sustaining the centers
that are established.
(b) The Statewide Service Learning and Community Service Center
and individual campus service learning centers shall seek to
integrate resources and programs with complementary organizations
engaged in national or community service and service learning,
including, but not necessarily limited to, programs such as America
Reads, Americorps, Vista, and the Senior Corps.
(c) The Statewide Service Learning and Community Service Center
shall be encouraged to cooperate and coordinate with the State
Department of Education, the California Education Roundtable, the
Governor's Office of Child Development and Education, and the
California Commission on Improving Life Through Service in promoting
service learning and community service programs statewide.
(d) The Legislature encourages the California Education Roundtable
to adopt a policy supporting service learning and community service
programs and centers on every college and university campus.
89266.3. (a) The California Postsecondary Education Commission
shall select and monitor an entity to administer the grant program
and the Statewide Service Learning and Community Service Center from
entities that shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, all
of the following: Campus Compact, the California Commission on
Improving Life Through Service, or another administrative entity
selected through an intersegmental memorandum of understanding.
(b) The California Postsecondary Education Commission shall make
the selection required by this section through a competitive process,
in accordance with appropriate criteria that it shall develop and
make known to the competing entities. The commission shall not make
the selection required by this section until a level of grant funding
has been made available and is deemed by the commission to be
sufficient to implement this article on at least a limited or pilot
basis.