In 1986, the Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education issued a report focusing exclusively on the community colleges. This document, “The Challenge of Change: A Reassessment of the California Community College”, led the way for the great reform legislation, AB 1725. Passed by the legislature in 1988, AB 1725 gave many new responsibilities to both local senates and the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, among them being:

Creating the focus for CCCs on transferring students to universities
Shifting the power of governance from the legislature to local boards
Instilling the 75:25 ratio of full-time to part-time instructors, creating a calculation known as the Faculty Obligation Number, or FON
Creation of funding models (which have undergone much revision since inception)
Involving faculty directly in matters of hiring and participatory governance, and creating areas of responsibilities known as the 10+1