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Brown’s efforts to restrict community college financial aid rejected
State Senate and Assembly committees have rejected several controversial elements of Gov. Jerry Brown’s recommendations on financial aid and financing of the state’s community colleges. The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance on Wednesday voted down one proposal that would have required all community college students seeking a Board of Governor’s fee waiver to first complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, known as FAFSA, and another plan that would have required students with more than 90 credits to pay the full cost of community college courses. On Thursday, the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee concurred on two of those actions, holding open a vote on the FAFSA requirement. Nearly 1 million community college students receive a fee waiver at a cost of about $783 million this academic year and, according … Read entire article »
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LA Unified off track to meet deadline for college prep courses
Los Angeles Unified School District has some work ahead of it to meet its deadline for all students to pass college-preparatory classes in order to graduate. Only about a quarter of students who graduated in the class of 2011 had completed what’s known as the A-G subjects, according to a new study by the Strategic Data Project of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. A-G courses are a sequence of math, English, science, history, language and visual or performing arts classes that are required for admission to the University of California and California State University. LA Unified’s requirement that all students pass A-G courses in order to graduate doesn’t take effect until the class of 2016, and project researcher Jon Fullerton said he expects the rates to increase as that date nears. Still, … Read entire article »
Filed under: A to G Curriculum, California Colleges, College and Career Preparation, College Enrollment, High School Completion, Quick Hits, Research, UC and CSU
Promising signs, potential lessons from Long Beach College Promise
A new way of determining students’ readiness for college courses could be the missing link that will allow the much heralded Long Beach College Promise to fulfill its promise. The College Promise, which celebrated its fifth birthday with the release of a report last week, is a model of cooperation between a K-12 district – Long Beach Unified – and the public colleges it feeds: Long Beach City College and California State University, Long Beach. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: A to G Curriculum, California Colleges, College Completion, College Enrollment, College Remediation, Community Colleges, Reporting & Analysis, UC and CSU
Budget cuts create unprecedented stress on community colleges
A decline of 24 percent in per-student funding over five years has led to a record decline in access to community colleges and has jeopardized the services to those students who are enrolled, an extensive study by the Public Policy Institute of California concluded. Even though there are more potential students who should be served by community colleges, “funding shortfalls throughout the community college system have led to significant reductions in staff, considerably fewer course offerings, and severely restricted enrollment,” write the researchers of “Impact of Budget Cuts on the California Community Colleges,” which was released on Monday. Although, the state’s 112 community colleges were protected more than four-year universities from cuts as a percentage of their budgets, they are more dependent on state revenue because fees comprise a tiny piece of their … Read entire article »
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UC faculty reject shared online course network
The University of California’s Academic Senate is dead set against a bill by State Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg that would open access to hard-to-get required courses through a statewide network of online courses, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. An article in the San Francisco Chronicle cites an open letter to UC faculty from Academic Senate Chair Robert Powell and Vice Chair Bill Jacob, saying they have “grave concerns” about Senate Bill 520, which Steinberg unveiled last week. Steinberg wants to expand the authority of the Open Education Resources Panel, which consists of three faculty members from each of the state’s three public college and university systems, from its current role of selecting online textbooks, to allow the panel to approve online courses for the 50 most oversubscribed lower-division classes. … Read entire article »
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Questions surround bill proposing online course network at colleges
California could lead the charge in developing a network of online public college courses open to all students enrolled in the University of California, California State University and the California Community College system. Senate Bill 520, introduced by Senate president pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), would allow the thousands of students shut out of required classes due to budget cuts to enroll in an online version of the course in order to stay on track to … Read entire article »
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Pursuit of college financial aid varies widely among high schools
California high school seniors are losing out on potentially hundreds of millions of dollars each year in financial aid – and forgoing the opportunity to attend college they assume they cannot afford – because only half of them fill out the forms for financial aid, according to a new report from Education Trust-West. But some high schools and some districts do a far better job in encouraging and assisting students and parents to provide the information, according … Read entire article »
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Landmark community college bill heads to governor
One day after the release of a survey of California community colleges showing unprecedented drops in enrollment, the state Legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill that could bring the first significant reforms in more than a decade to community colleges. The Student Success Act of 2012, by Democratic Senators Alan Lowenthal of Long Beach and Carol Liu of La Cañada Flintridge, received nearly unanimous bipartisan support. It would give new students more support early on, including orientation … Read entire article »
Filed under: College Completion, College Enrollment, Community Colleges, Jerry Brown, Legislature, Bills, Reporting & Analysis
State creating “time bomb” with cuts to higher ed
Give a dollar to California’s public colleges and universities and receive $4.50 back. Those are pretty good odds, and they’re not from one of those overseas scam emails humbly requesting your help in transferring funds. This more-than-400-percent yield is the net return on the state’s investment in higher education, according to California’s Economic Payoff, one of two reports released yesterday that make the case for a stronger state investment in higher education. Multiply that by the hundreds … Read entire article »
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CSU freezes spring enrollment again
California State University is once again severely limiting spring enrollment due to state budget cutbacks and the fear of more reductions. … Read entire article »
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