Existing law requires each student to be classified as a resident or nonresident at a California community college [for instruction provided to the student at the CCCs].
However, the recently passed Assembly Bill 3101 (AB3101) exempts a student seeking to enroll exclusively in career development and college preparation courses, and other courses for which no credit is given, from community college residency classification requirements.
Therefore, the CCCApply application process needs to be updated to collect information/data on all students, providing colleges with an electronic admission application that exempts noncredit students from the residency determination, and only collects data that is required by the federal gov, state law, or that is otherwise necessary at the time of application.
The CCCApply Standard Application should be used for all students: Credit and Noncredit. |
Revise the CCCApply Standard application to include two workflow paths, one that determines residency (Standard Credit) and one that is exempt from residency determination (Noncredit)
The two workflow paths would be:
The Standard "Credit" path (Standard Application) will function exactly as it does today; no significant changes have been identified for the existing, residency path
If the applicant intends to enroll in one or more college credit course(s), they will use the existing college-branded application URL (or the generic, unauthenticated version via MyPath). and complete all questions required to determine California residency; and questions required by the federal government, state law, and other necessary requirements;
The Standard "Credit" workflow path will not change how it calculates the residency status implemented today;
The Standard "Credit" workflow path will not change any post-submissions processes, web services, calculations (residency, AB540, financial aid) etc.
NOTE: Any/all proposed changes to the Standard "Credit" path will be detailed in separate change requests. For the purposes of this document, all changes are proposed for the Noncredit path only. |
The Noncredit path SHOULD include the following questions required by state, local & federal mandates, as well as questions required to identify the student
All questions in the OpenCCC Account will be included to identify the student at the college, for OpenCCC account creation (CCCID) and account recovery, for federal IRS requirement
All questions on the Enrollment page (Term, Ed Goal, and Major) will be included
All questions on the Account Info/Mailing page will be included - including the "Dependency Status" (Minors) question
All questions on the Education page will be included
All questions on the Demographic Information page will be included
All questions on the Review, Consent & Submit page will be included
To comply with the new residency-determination exemption for noncredit students as outlined in AB3101, we need to revise the Residency Status field to include a value for noncredit "exempt" status. We need to do the following:
Add a new "Noncredit" status field: <non_credit>
NOTE: For Standard Applicants Only - CCCApply does not allow an applicant to submit more than one application to the same Term at the same college. However, with the implementation of the "Noncredit" application path, this logic has been modified to allow a Noncredit Applicant Only to submit both a Noncredit and Standard (Credit) applications, if needed, for the same term at the same college. Colleges do not need to do anything for this change; other than being aware that this restriction has been lifted for Noncredit applicants only. |
The bullets below include additional requirements and considerations that need to be included in the overall implementation. Can you think of any other ones?
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During the Application process, a student on the NC workflow path...