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Information Competency

Information Competency is the ability to both recognize when information is needed, and to locate, evaluate, synthesize, use and communicate information in various formats. The California Community College Board of Governors identified Information Competency as essential to student success. In 1996, the State Academic Senate adopted a resolution in support of Information Competency. While not yet a community college state requirement, 35 community colleges include an Information Competency course in their curriculum and at least fourteen (including Diablo Valley College, Santa Rosa, Cabrillo College, and City College San Francisco) have already implemented or are in the process of implementing an Information Competency requirement.