FIELD TRIPS

The Board recognizes that field trips when used as a device for teaching and learning integral to the curriculum are an educationally sound and important ingredient in the instructional program of the College. Properly planned and executed field trips can:

a. supplement and enrich classroom procedures by providing learning experiences in an environment outside the College,

b. arouse new interests among students,

c. help students relate College experiences to the reality of the world outside of the College,

d. bring all the resources of the community--natural, artistic, industrial, commercial, governmental, educational--within the ambit of a student's learning experience,

e. afford students the opportunity to study real things and real processes in their actual environment.

To support this policy, the President is directed to develop procedures which cover:

a. authorization for field trip expense

b. insurance provisions during field trips

c. code of conduct for students on field trips

Education Code 72640, 72641, 87706




Adopted by Board of Trustees: August 15, 1977