UCI Extension and Coast Community College District Partner to Serve Summer Students UCI to Offer Classes on Community College Campuses               COSTA MESA –Coast Community College District (CCCD) and UC Irvine Extension have created a program aimed at alleviating an expected shortage of college courses for students looking to keep their higher education momentum going this summer.	CONTACT: Erin Cohn District Director, Public Affairs (714) 438-4605 Shea Caron UC Irvine Extension (949) 824-2308 scaron@uci.edu May 18, 2003 NEWS

The summer program will offer UCI Extension courses on the three colleges within CCCD – Orange Coast College, Golden West College and Coastline Community College.     
            As a result of the California state budget deficit, community colleges across the state have had to reduce the number of summer sessions and class offerings. This new partnership program is designed to help relieve the impact of the course reductions by helping students take the courses they need to complete their programs and to transfer successfully to other universities. The classes offered through the program have been fully articulated for transfer to the University of California and/or California State University systems.

UC Irvine Extension is fully self-supporting, receiving no state funding. The courses will be offered at the same rates as UCI Summer Session at $85 per quarter unit. The CCCD students will pay a one-time $50 registration fee, which includes their parking permit, ID card and student health services.

“The state budget cuts have forced us to dramatically reduce our summer offerings this year, and we were looking for another avenue to offer the courses summer students typically need,” said Ron Berggren, CCCD vice chancellor of educational services. “The last thing we want is for our current fiscal crisis to affect our students’ life plans.”

“The program with UCI is a great example of turning lemons into lemonade,” Berggren said. “Everybody wins – especially our students.”

Through this program, UC Irvine Extension will offer 50 classes on the three community college campuses. The courses are a mixture of general education classes, such as freshman English, as well as more specialized topics such as physics, design and technology.

“We are pleased to work with the Coast Community College District and be able to respond to student needs in this state budget crisis. As a parent of a graduating high school senior this year, I have become increasingly worried that the promise of a community college pathway to a degree is in danger of being significantly altered by the budget cuts,” said Gary W. Matkin, UCI dean of continuing education and UCI summer session.

To access the entire catalog, visit http://unex.uci.edu/cccd-catalog.pdf.

The Coast Community College District is the seventh largest community college district in the nation in credit enrollment, serving more than 60,000 students each semester.  The district is comprised of Coastline Community College headquartered in Fountain Valley, Golden West College in Huntington Beach, Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, and KOCE-TV, the district’s public broadcasting station.

UC Irvine Extension is the non-profit, continuing education branch of the University of California, Irvine. It is self-supporting and offers life- and career-enhancing programs in many subject areas, including 50 professional learning pathways. To request a UC Irvine Extension catalog, call (949) 824-5414 or visit www.unex.uci.edu.

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