Nathanial, I remember working with you. Any competent instructor can fulfill the requirements in the document you link to without making the course easier. Suspiciously, you and one other part-time instructor who quit are the only people who refused to fulfill those requirements out of the entire college. If you are claiming that fulfilling those requirements would force you to dumb down your course, then you are claiming all other 200+ instructors who haven't gone to the press or quit in outrage supporting your conspiracy theory are unethically and purposefully dumbing down their courses. Which scenario is more likely: 200+ highly educated, experienced, passionate teachers remaining at CCA purposefully seek to harm students by dumbing down their education, or two instructors can't figure out how to teach a rigorous course using mandated requirements and quit or get fired? In any other profession, you would have been fired for refusing to fulfill your duties, but here you blame others.