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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Sent on behalf of Senate Academic Senate Chair Sang-Hee Lee<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Dear Senate members,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">AB 1749 is a bill to guarantee transfers to students with Associate Degrees for Transfer (ADT), instead of UC Transfer Pathways. UC Senate opposes the bill because Associate Degrees for Transfer do not prepare students adequately for majors
at UC. Please consider acting on the following request from the Senate special committee on transfer issues.
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Sang-Hee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">---<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Sang-Hee Lee
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Professor of Anthropology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Chair of the Academic Senate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">University of California Riverside</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">=================<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Begin forwarded message:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">From: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Jim Chalfant <<a href="mailto:000004ce9f397ffc-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU" target="_blank">000004ce9f397ffc-dmarc-request@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Subject: [ACSCOTI] Individual letters opposing AB 1749</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Date: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">June 23, 2023 at 4:07:21 PM PDT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">To: </span></b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue""><a href="mailto:ACSCOTI-L@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU" target="_blank">ACSCOTI-L@LISTSERV.UCOP.EDU</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Reply-To: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">Jim Chalfant <<a href="mailto:jim@PRIMAL.UCDAVIS.EDU" target="_blank">jim@PRIMAL.UCDAVIS.EDU</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Dear ACSCOTI Members,</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">I’m sorry this comes late on a Friday. Bill, Onuttom, and I have worked on this today to try to add some backing to the Senate and UC statements,
from individuals within UC. This will keep until Monday, if necessary, but hopefully we can all make some progress over the weekend.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">As you know, the Academic Senate stands in official opposition to AB 1749, which would force UC to guarantee admission to students earning
the Associate Degrees for Transfer designed for CSU, instead of using the UC Transfer Pathways. The Academic Council has also opposed the legislation in the letter below, and an official UC opposition letter has been submitted to the CA Senate Education Committee
that will vote on the bill Wednesday morning. The Academic Senate letter is available at </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Times"><br>
</span><u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white"><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/ab-1749-oppose-20230623.pdf" target="_blank">https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/ab-1749-oppose-20230623.pdf</a></span></u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">But we are not done yet, as it is still possible that the Education Committee will pass it, and then almost surely the full California Senate
will pass the law and then the Governor will sign it. So we need your help in organizing an email campaign to go to the seven members of the Education Committee, to ensure they read the official UC position and vote to send the bill back to the Assembly.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Below you will find a short email message that you can send to any faculty or administration colleagues whom you think might wish to help,
asking them to join us in sending messages to the seven members of the Ed Committee asking them to oppose. Please take care of this right away because we want all the emails sent by close of business Monday, if possible so that each legislator’s staff can
record the message. Instructions are in the message. Each email will only take a few minutes, since the links are provided and sample messages (which individuals can modify as they choose) can simply be pasted in.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">We also ask that you note the following UC policy concerning advocacy letters:</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Only the system can take an official position on state legislation. Letters written by faculty, administrators, or staff may be submitted by
them as private, concerned citizens, may <u>not</u> be on university letterhead, and titles may be used for identification purposes only. </span></i><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Although the system has already taken an official oppose position, your personal position will also be heard, and it is important for members
of Senate Education to know how widespread the opposition is. Instructions for this process are given below, along with a sample email of opposition. Since you are placing your message on the legislature’s portal in a small box, you will not use letterheads,
so there is no concern with that, but you can identify who you are so that the legislature knows your expertise.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Thank you so much. Please invite your colleagues to pass this message on, especially to department undergraduate vice chairs and other administrators.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Sincerely, </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Jim</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">==============</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">James A. Chalfant, Professor Emeritus and Chair, Academic</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Council Special Committee on Transfer Issues</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Message to be sent to individuals.</span></u></i></b><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">The California State Assembly has passed AB 1749 (McCarty, Berman) which if passed would impose a guarantee of transfer admission to the University
of California using criteria designed a decade ago for transfer to CSU, based on the Associate Degrees for Transfer (ADT) created by legislation (SB 1440, 2010). Subsequently, UC created the UC Transfer Pathways that provide Community College students a clear
list of courses sufficient for admission to all UC campuses and which would provide them a two-year path to graduation from UC. In many majors, the ADTs are substantially weaker than the UC expectations and in those cases students whose preparation is limited
to an ADT will have to take additional lower division courses before enrolling in upper-division major sequences. The likely result is a three-year post-transfer path to graduation from UC. There are other majors for which the ADT requires courses that UC
does not; these requirements would add to time to degree by delaying transfer. In short, the ADTs were not designed for UC and do not fit us well.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">The Academic Senate and the UC State Government Relations have submitted carefully prepared opposition statements to this legislation that
provide data-based reasons why the bill should not pass. The Academic Senate letter is available at </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:Times"><br>
</span><u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white"><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/ab-1749-oppose-20230623.pdf" target="_blank">https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/ab-1749-oppose-20230623.pdf</a></span></u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">AB 1749 will be heard in the CA Senate Education Committee this Wednesday and if it passes there it will almost surely pass the Senate and
be signed by the Governor. So we are asking you to take five minutes and submit an opposition email to the members of Senate Education as well as the Committee itself. These emails should be submitted by Monday at the latest to be registered by the legislators'
staff.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Please note the following UC policy:</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">Only the system can take an official position on state legislation. Letters written by faculty, administrators, or staff may be submitted by
them as private, concerned citizens, may <u>not</u> be on university letterhead, and titles may be used for identification purposes only. </span></i><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Since the system has already taken an official oppose position, your personal position will be heard and is important for members of Senate
Education to know how widespread the opposition is. Instructions for this process are given below, along with a sample email of opposition. Since you are placing your message on the legislature’s portal in a small box, you will not use letterheads, so there
is no concern with that, but you can identify who you are so that the legislature knows your expertise. These messages should be short and you can modify the example as you please. The important point is to include that you are OPPOSING AB 1749 (McCarty,
Berman).</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Basic Information for sending emails of opposition to AB 1749:</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">To get started go to the CA Senate Education Committee web page</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><a href="https://sedn.senate.ca.gov/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">https://sedn.senate.ca.gov/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">The members of the Senate Education Committee are:</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Josh Newman, Chair, Senate District 29 (Fullerton)</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, Vice Chair, Senate District 23, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties,</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Dave Cortese, Senate District 15, Santa Clara County</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Steve Glazer, Senate District 7, Contra Costa County</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Mike McGuire, Senate District 2 North Bay Area and Northern CA Coast</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Lola Smallwood-Cuevas, Senate District 28, West Los Angelas</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Scott Wilk, Senate District 21, Lancaster County</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">To submit letter/comment: From the Education Committee page, except for Senator McGuire click the members name, and when you reach the member's
page use the contact go to the upper right corner link. Then enter your name, email and the select and issue button. Here there is some variation in choices between the members, but mostly the choice is legislation. Then below that enter your short message
to oppose AB 1749.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">For Senator McGuire you must use direct email: </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black"><a href="mailto:senator.mcguire@senate.ca.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">senator.mcguire@senate.ca.gov</span></a></span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Sample Message #1</span></u></i></b><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Dear Senator X,</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">I am asking you to oppose AB 1749 (McCarty, Berman) when it is heard on Wednesday in the Senate Education Committee. This bill would impose
a guarantee of transfer admission to the University of California using criteria designed over a decade ago for transfer to CSU. As a result Community College students will be misled about UC expectations and for many this will add an unnecessary extra year
to their time to graduation from UC. The Academic Senate of the University of California has prepared a data-based opposition document that spells out the reasons AB 1749 will not help transfers to the UC that I ask you to read and consider carefully. It
is posted at</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white"><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/ab-1749-oppose-20230623.pdf" target="_blank">https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/ab-1749-oppose-20230623.pdf</a></span></u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">If this bill is returned to the Assembly it can be fixed by using the UC Transfer Pathways that will provide students the correct information.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Thank you very much for your time.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Sincerely,</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Sample Message #2</span></u></i></b><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Dear Senator X,</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">I am asking you to oppose AB 1749 (McCarty, Berman) when it is heard on Wednesday in the Senate Education Committee. This bill is a replica
of SB 1440 (Padilla, 2010) which established an Associate Degrees for Transfer that guarantees transfers admission to CSU over a decade ago. These degrees do not work for UC as was known at that time and is still true today; yet AB 1749 will force UC to take
ADT completers as a priority over other applicants who are demonstrably better prepared for their UC major by completing a UC Transfer Pathway. The result will be substantial additional expense to UC because these transfers will have to take many second year
courses, post transfer, and these ADT transfers themselves will be shocked to find their lack of proper preparation places them on a 3-year (not a 2-year) graduation plan, after transfer. The University of California has prepared a data-based opposition document
that spells out the reasons AB 1749 will not help transfers to the UC that I ask you to read and consider carefully, and then oppose the bill. It is posted at</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC;background:white"><a href="https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/ab-1749-oppose-20230623.pdf" target="_blank">https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/ab-1749-oppose-20230623.pdf</a></span></u><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Thank you very much for your time.</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#222222">Sincerely, </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Cherysa Cortez (she, her, hers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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