Full Text of SB0467 103rd General Assembly
SB0467sam001 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Cristina Castro Filed: 4/16/2024 | | 10300SB0467sam001 | | LRB103 02918 RJT 72379 a |
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 467
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 467 by replacing | 3 | | everything after the enacting clause with the following: | 4 | | "Section 5. The Illinois Articulation Initiative Act is | 5 | | amended by changing Sections 5 and 25 and by adding Section 35 | 6 | | as follows: | 7 | | (110 ILCS 152/5) | 8 | | Sec. 5. Legislative findings. The General Assembly finds | 9 | | and declares that in January of 1993, the Board of Higher | 10 | | Education, the Illinois Community College Board, and transfer | 11 | | coordinators from Illinois colleges and universities jointly | 12 | | launched the Illinois Articulation Initiative to ease the | 13 | | transfer of students among Illinois public and independent | 14 | | associate and baccalaureate degree-granting institutions. The | 15 | | General Assembly finds and declares that the Illinois | 16 | | Articulation Initiative was driven by the following |
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| 1 | | foundational ideas: | 2 | | (1) that associate and baccalaureate degree-granting | 3 | | institutions are equal partners in educating college | 4 | | freshmen and sophomores; | 5 | | (2) that faculties should take primary responsibility | 6 | | for developing and maintaining program and course | 7 | | articulation; and | 8 | | (3) that institutions are expected to work together to | 9 | | facilitate transfer for lower-division baccalaureate | 10 | | programs ; and . | 11 | | (4) that nearly 300 common course descriptor codes are | 12 | | used to identify approved courses with common course | 13 | | content and learning outcomes. | 14 | | The General Assembly finds and declares that students have | 15 | | benefited by receiving the General Education Core Curriculum | 16 | | and transferring across institutions of higher education. | 17 | | (Source: P.A. 99-636, eff. 1-1-17 .) | 18 | | (110 ILCS 152/25) | 19 | | Sec. 25. Board of Higher Education and the Illinois | 20 | | Community College Board duties. | 21 | | (a) The Board of Higher Education and the Illinois | 22 | | Community College Board shall co-manage the implementation, | 23 | | oversight, and evaluation of the Illinois Articulation | 24 | | Initiative, including determining when panels must be | 25 | | discontinued or convened and the specific requirements of the |
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| 1 | | General Education Core Curriculum. Panels must be convened | 2 | | across the fields of General Education, Communications, | 3 | | Humanities and Fine Arts, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, | 4 | | Social and Behavioral Sciences, Mathematics, Elementary and | 5 | | Secondary Education, and other fields as determined by the | 6 | | Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College | 7 | | Board. | 8 | | (b) The Board of Higher Education and the Illinois | 9 | | Community College Board shall provide a joint report on an | 10 | | annual basis to the General Assembly, the Governor, and the | 11 | | Illinois P-20 Council on the status of the Illinois | 12 | | Articulation Initiative and the implementation of this Act. | 13 | | (c) On or before September 1, 2024, the Board of Higher | 14 | | Education and the Illinois Community College Board, in | 15 | | collaboration with public institutions, shall establish a | 16 | | workgroup to develop a comprehensive implementation plan for | 17 | | the adoption of a common course numbering system. The common | 18 | | course numbering system shall be consistent with course codes | 19 | | assigned through the Illinois Articulation Initiative. The | 20 | | common course numbering system shall be student-facing to | 21 | | ensure that comparable courses across all public institutions | 22 | | have the same course number. | 23 | | The implementation plan shall be adopted by both the Board | 24 | | of Higher Education and Illinois Community College Board on or | 25 | | before June 30, 2025. The workgroup established under this | 26 | | subsection (c) shall convene annually thereafter to review |
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| 1 | | progress toward fully implementing the developed common course | 2 | | numbering system. | 3 | | (Source: P.A. 103-469, eff. 1-1-24 .) | 4 | | (110 ILCS 152/35 new) | 5 | | Sec. 35. Common course numbering. | 6 | | (a) Beginning with the 2026-2027 academic year, all public | 7 | | institutions shall adopt a common course numbering system for | 8 | | all Illinois Articulation Initiative General Education Core | 9 | | Curriculum courses based on the implementation plan of the | 10 | | workgroup established under subsection (c) of Section 25. | 11 | | (b) Beginning with the 2027-2028 academic year, all public | 12 | | institutions shall adopt a common course numbering system for | 13 | | all Illinois Articulation Initiative major courses based on | 14 | | the implementation plan of the workgroup established under | 15 | | subsection (c) of Section 25. | 16 | | (c) Each public institution shall incorporate common | 17 | | course numbers from the adopted common course numbering system | 18 | | developed by the workgroup established under subsection (c) of | 19 | | Section 25 in each public institution's course catalog. | 20 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 21 | | becoming law.". |
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