In The Final Recommendations of the Core Curriculum Committee as Amended by the Cabinet (December 1998), the Core Curriculum Committee recommended that "the Chancellor's Cabinet leave the newly adopted core intact until a significant number of students has completed and transferred." The Core Evaluation Committee recommended in its 2000 report that future changes to the Core Curriculum should follow a similar process to the one used to develop the Core. The Core Evaluation Committee recommended that college hearings be conducted. Between 2000 and 2004, only one change was recommended to the inventory courses included in the Core Curriculum. Members of the DCCCD Degree Audit Users Group had become aware of transfer difficulties encountered by students who were majoring in certain disciplines when they transferred to area universities. SPCH 1311 was the only speech communication course included in the DCCCD Core, but area universities required public speaking and strongly encouraged transfer students to take public speaking. Degree Audit Users Group requested that SPCH 1315, Public Speaking, be added to the core. The request of the Degree Audit Users Group went to the Vice Chancellor of Educational Affairs who directed the request to the Speech Communication discipline committee, which agreed to endorse the requested change.