Spring 2023
Resolution Number: 2022-4
Contact: Dan Clark

Ventura College Academic Senate
Resolution to adopt the Military Articulation Platform

WHEREAS,	Sections 55050 et seq of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations require each community college district to publish policies pertaining to Credit for Prior Learning (CPL); moreover, Section 66025.71 of the California Education Code requires community college districts to assess Joint Services Transcripts (JSTs) for awarding course credit; and

WHEREAS,	research demonstrates that granting CPL increases student equity by significantly boosting completion rates for Black and low-income students while also increasing the likelihood that students will enroll in more courses at the college; and

WHEREAS,	a consortium of more than seventy California community colleges has collaborated to develop the Military Articulation Platform (MAP) to support the colleges’ granting of CPL to veterans and active-duty members of the military for specified training and skills they have acquired during their service; and

WHEREAS,	a prerequisite to any community college’s being able to access and use MAP is that the college’s Academic Senate must approve the institution’s adoption of MAP; therefore, be it

RESOLVED,	that the Academic Senate endorses and approves the adoption of MAP at Ventura College.

Approved by vote of the Ventura College Academic Senate on 2023-05-04