Dear Radio-TV-Film Colleagues:

The Intersegmental Major Preparation Articulated Curriculum (IMPAC) project is an intersegmental, faculty-designed and faculty-run project that is a subgroup of ICAS and the State Academic Senate. IMPAC focuses on ensuring that students transferring from California community colleges to UC and CSU institutions will be properly prepared for progressing in their chosen major. The project enables faculty from the state’s three higher education systems to meet regionally at intervals throughout the year in order to address transfer curriculum requirements and procedures that may ensure the smooth progress of a transferring student. These meetings provide a forum where faculty may review and reconcile the prerequisites of transfer courses both within their particular disciplines and between disciplines.

Some of your colleagues may have attended the meetings held this past year in San Francisco and Los Angeles. At these gatherings the IMPAC project brought together faculty from CSUs and CCs. Please visit the project’s website at www.cal-impac.org for more information. IMPAC lead faculty members for each group also attended the LDTP meeting to help establish the six-unit prep for the major requirements.

The Radio-TV-Film group has developed a set of course descriptors (attached) and is preparing to review course content this year to gain CAN or the new CSU-TCN status for a number of courses. It is very important that you attend or send a representative from your school to ensure that the courses have the largest common base for transfer. Please urge representatives of your department or program to attend the IMPAC regional and statewide meetings now scheduled for 2005-2006. (See the attached announcement.) South and Metro regions attend the regional meeting scheduled on November 19th at LAX Sheraton Gateway, and North, Central, and Bay regions on January 21st at San Francisco Westin. Encourage your department’s faculty to keep abreast of the IMPAC project by regularly visiting our website at www.cal-impac.org.

Please be aware that your department's participation is critical to IMPAC's work, and ultimately to the ability of California faculty to enhance the successful transfer of community college students. So, we are looking forward to having you and your faculty attend our meetings this year.

Cordially,
IMPAC Lead Radio-TV-Film
John Hildebrand
jhildebr@sdccd.edu