Background of the BSI

Background of the BSI

The California Community Colleges (CCC) is the largest system of higher education in the world, serving more than 2.5 million students.  Of that number, 70 to 80% are underprepared for college-level work.  This translates into nearly 2 million students in need of educational support.  Assisting the underprepared student to attain the basic skills needed to succeed in college-level work has been a core function of community colleges throughout their history.

However, few of the nearly 100,000 faculty, administrators, and staff of the California community colleges have received any type of preparation or training to address the needs of basic skills students at the classroom, program, or institutional levels.

In 2006, an unprecedented collaboration began among the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, California Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers, California Community Colleges Chief Student Services Officers, and California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to seek solutions to the mounting failure of many community college students.

Thus the Basic Skills Initiative (BSI) was born out of the vital need to raise the success rate of our students.

2007

  • Basic Skills as a Foundation for Success in California Community Colleges (the Poppy Copy)
  • Professional development for over 1600 faculty, administrators, and staff

2008

  • Regional workshops showcasing effective practices, exemplary programs, and strategies
  • Summer Teaching Institute:  4 days, 300 participants, 80% part-timers, teams from colleges
  • Handbook:  Constructing a Framework for Success:  A Holistic Approach to Basic Skills
  • Database:  Staff Development and Student Success Programs: bsi.cccco.edu
  • Three additional literature reviews forthcoming
  • High school transition to post secondary education
  • Adult education transition to college
  • Diversity
  • Working through the Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates (ICAS) to update mathematics competency statements for entering freshmen
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