Cerritos College
Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

Talon Marks

Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

Talon Marks

Cerritos College • Norwalk, Calif.

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After several months of much concern over accreditation, Cerritos College was finally visited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges team last Wednesday.

The accreditation visit, as well as a state academic update, transfer update and budget and section cuts update were announced at the faculty senate meeting at 11 a.m. on May 5.

Acting President Bill Farmer informed the faculty senate that the visit from the ACCJC went fairly well.

“The members of the accreditation team noted that the college had substantially addressed all four recommendations that needed to be addressed,” he said.

However, at the end of the team’s visit, it still had some concerns over two of the recommendations.

The team believed the college’s strategic plan did not obtain measureable objectives and its planning process did not have a broad participation required for faculty.

Farmer presented the team with the school’s self study report as evidence to ensure that the items and terms were addressed.

He hopes that the report will be accepted and the school will be removed from probation.

“The report will be reviewed from June 9 to 11,” he stated. “It is approximately two to three weeks after it is reviewed when we find out whether it was accepted or rejected.”

Once the report is accepted or rejected, it will be made public for faculty, students and anyone interested to view.

It is not likely that the school will continue to be on probation, he added, because it has been very concerned and has prioritized the school’s accreditation.

Faculty senate member Tim Juntilla also presented the senate with an update on the transfer rates of the students of Cerritos College.

He informed that although more students of Cerritos College are transferring to UCLA and Berkeley, getting accepted into these colleges is becoming more difficult.

Requirements for admittance are basically coming down to high GPAs, he said.

He sarcastically explained, “If your GPA is not a 3.7 or higher, good luck trying to get in. If you are not in honors, good luck trying get in.”

Many universities have too many students trying to major in popular majors such as sociology, communications, political science and business.

What he recommends students to do is apply to a college trying to major in another field, and then try double majoring in their field of preference in order to prevent getting their application rejected.

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