"Courses shall motivate students to develop information competency skills to improve the quality of education and everyday life through the selective use of information technology and information resources. Students will be able to identify information resources, apply appropriate tools to acquire information, formulate a search strategy, evaluate acquired information, and recognize alternative information sources."

     "This can be achieved through various activities including but not limited to: using computers, periodical/journal research, internet research, Web home-page projects, and library research orientations."

How did we do it? Cuyamaca College has been a forerunner in the information competency movement.
On the College level, the GE reform movement opened the door for the integration of Information competency. Read more about the General Education reform history at Cuyamaca College . The next step was implementation. We created a course curriculum approval process for integrating information competency at department level. Every course addition proposal must include a form called "General Education Survival Kit".
     Cuyamaca College Library model has been a major influence on the information competency movement in California. Steps that led to adoption of the Academic Senate Resolution on Information Competency, Title V proposal by the State Academic Senate (2002) "Information Competency Development Models" prepared for the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, DRAFT PAPER,2001-2002 Curriculum Committee. In this document, Cuyamaca College integration model was cited as supporting evidence. Unfortunately this was not adopted by the State for fiscal reasons. Read more.....