The Rostrum is a quarterly publication of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) A Modest Proposal: Simplifying Articulation, Respecting Local Autonomy, and Responding to "Common Course Numbering" Mandates by Michelle Pilati; (2) Resolving the TBA Dilemma: A Tale of Three Memos by Michelle Pilati; (3) What Does Proficiency Look Like on the ACCJC Rubric? by Lesley Kawaguchi; (4) Curriculum, Coding and Our Professional Responsibility: Revise Your Process by Janet Fulks; (5) Curriculum Development, Submission and Quality: It's About to Get a Little Easier by Janet Fulks; (6) Survey Says... The Status of Information Competency by Dolores Davison and Michelle Grimes-Hillman; (7) "On the Other Hand... There Is No Other Hand" by Wheeler North and Beth Smith; (8) How Does the Budget Situation Really Affect Us? by Jane Patton; (9) Relationships--Isn't That What It Is All About? by Dan Crump; (10) Hispanic? Yes or No? Just How Effective Are the New Ethnicity Data Gathering Instruments? by Janelle Williams Melendrez and David Clay; (11) What's in an Award? by Wheeler North; (12) And the Textbook Is... Free? Introduction to Open Educational Resources by Barbara Illowsky; (13) But Will It Fly? OER and Articulation by Richard Mahon, Ken O'Donnell and Dawn Sheibani; (14) In Memorium: Norbert Bischof (1933-2009) by Kate Clark, Ian Walton and Mark Wade Lieu; (15) Read about Reading by Barbara Illowsky; and (16) Upcoming Events by Jen Gross.