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Community colleges get boost under governor’s revised budget
Community colleges will receive millions more to begin to restore cut classes, rebuild flagging enrollment and strengthen student support services under Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget released Tuesday. Brown would add an additional $30 million to the system’s 2013-14 apportionment, raising it to $226.9 million from the Proposition 98 school funding guarantee. Unlike the January budget proposal, however, when Gov. Brown left it to the California Community Colleges Board of Governors to decide how to spend … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, Community Colleges, Featured, Jerry Brown, Reporting & Analysis, State Budget
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 »
Filed under: College Enrollment, College Loans, Grants, Community Colleges, Jerry Brown, Quick Hits
New scorecards show challenges for state’s community colleges
Students who start community college prepared to take college-level courses have a better than 70 percent chance of earning a degree or certificate or transferring to a four-year college within six years. The outcome is significantly worse for students placed in remedial math or science, with barely 41 percent achieving those goals, according to the first-ever student success scorecards released Tuesday by the systemwide chancellor’s office. The scorecards provide in-depth information for each of the state’s … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, College and Career Preparation, College Completion, College Remediation, Community Colleges, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, Workforce preparation
Community colleges to release scorecard rivaling the president’s
Students planning to attend one of the nation’s 4,500 colleges and universities have a new interactive College Scorecard touted by President Obama in his State of the Union address as a tool “to compare schools based on a simple criteria – where you can get the most bang for your educational buck.” Community college leaders say the focus on costs and graduation rates is a flawed lens for measuring their worth. Give it a few weeks, … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, Career Technical Education, College and Career Preparation, College Completion, College Loans, Grants, College Remediation, Community Colleges, Data, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, UC and CSU
EdWatch 2013: Accountability, accreditation test community colleges
California community colleges did something counterintuitive last year, and that may put them in a strong position to rebound in 2013 with help from Proposition 30 and increased state revenues. Even as the 112-college system was getting hit with an $809 million budget cut in recent years, it was developing and slowly rolling out a comprehensive reform plan. Now, with Gov. Brown proposing to increase community college funding by $196.7 million and some financial breathing room … Read entire article »
Filed under: College Completion, Community Colleges, Featured, Legislature, Bills, Reporting & Analysis
More money, more accountability for community colleges
Additional reporting by Sue Frey Gov. Brown’s spending plan for community colleges reflects the new focus in the state’s 112-campus community college system on increasing graduation and transfer rates through a combination of technology, smoother pathways to Cal State University and, for students, tough love. His budget would invest an additional $196.7 million in community colleges and leave it up to the Board of Governors to Key provisions of budget proposal for community colleges No change in student fees. $196.9 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Adult education, California Colleges, College and Career Preparation, Community Colleges, Featured, Jerry Brown, Reporting & Analysis, State Budget
Academic senate influence challenged at community colleges
An Oakland-based policy and advocacy organization is alleging that the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges drew up unlawful regulation more than two decades ago giving excessive power to faculty, in violation of state law. The nonprofit organization California Competes this week filed a legal challenge against the regulation, which it claims has obstructed efforts to improve student success rates. The legal maneuver relies on a rarely used section of the state education code … Read entire article »
Filed under: California Colleges, College Completion, Community Colleges, Featured, Reporting & Analysis, Twenty-first Century Learning
Winning paths to success in Pasadena, Santa Barbara
Pasadena and Santa Barbara City Colleges are recipients of the 2012 Chancellor’s Student Success Award for their programs to support first-year and underserved students in community college. “These are the types of initiatives our Student Success Task Force determined were extremely important in achieving equity and helping a greater number of students reach their educational goals,” said Community College Chancellor Brice Harris in a written statement. More than 800 new students are enrolled in the First Year … Read entire article »
Filed under: College Completion, College Remediation, Community Colleges, Featured, Reporting & Analysis
Better quality of lifelong learning at community colleges
An increasing number of California’s community colleges are dealing with years of budget cuts by charging full price for personal enrichment classes that used to cost the same amount as academic courses. These classes run the gamut from pottery to conversational French to a slide show of someone’s trip to the Ukraine. They don’t provide any credits or lead to a degree and, until now, they didn’t have to meet any specific standards. The Community College … Read entire article »
Filed under: Community Colleges, Reporting & Analysis
“Wake up!” says retiring Community College Chancellor
California Community Colleges Chancellor Jack Scott stepped down Saturday, after leading the nation’s largest higher education system through its stormiest time. Scott took the helm on Jan. 1, 2009, just as the state was entering a deep financial slide. Since then, community colleges have lost $809 million, or 12 percent of their budget, nearly doubled tuition and fees, and cut course offerings by about 15 percent, all of which knocked down enrollment by roughly 485,000 … Read entire article »
Filed under: Community Colleges, Featured, Jerry Brown, Legislature, Bills, Reporting & Analysis
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