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Governor's Proposed State Budget
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Governor Brown's revised budget proposal boosts state spending for California colleges and universities and articulates a clear focus on the need to improve student success. For higher education, the Governor proposes a funding increase of $900 million above 2012-13 levels while providing financial stability by ensuring funding increases for the next several years. Brown's proposal designates $36.9 million in resources to increase online education course offerings at the CCC, CSU, and UC to help students decrease their time to transfer and degree. Brown's proposal also preserves financial aid for students by maintaining the Cal Grant Award programs.
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Welcome Reception for California Community College Chancellor Brice Harris in Los Angeles
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Campaign Board members Thomas Saenz, Gary Hart, David Wolf, and Executive Director Michele Siqueiros with Chancellor Harris (center)
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On Tuesday, we hosted a welcome reception for Chancellor Harris at Los Angeles City Hall. We were joined by sixteen co-hosts including the Los Angeles Urban League, Inland Empire Economic Partnership, the Central City Association and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. The event was attended by over 50 prominent business, civil rights, community and education leaders. During this event, Michele Siqueiros shared that we are ready to support the Chancellor's commitment to expanding access, improving success, and closing equity gaps. Chancellor Harris noted that his priorities will be laser focused on access and success, "I'm going to be a two note samba" he said. Our business, civil rights, and community allies are ready to stand with the Chancellor on this agenda and to push forward because we deeply care and value the advantage a college education gives people to change their lives, strengthen the economy, and make California a better place to live.
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Working Hard, Left Behind
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Last week we released Working Hard, Left Behind, which details the economic state of California's low-income working families. California has the highest number of low-income adults in the nation, and is ranked at the bottom of all states when measuring educational attainment of working low-income families. Alarmingly, one in three of the four million working families in CA are considered low-income and 40% of all children in the state are in low-income working families. Our report finds that on one hand, we have millions of hard-working, low-income adults who have limited chances of upward mobility because of obstacles to higher education access and completion, and on the other hand we have thousands of companies seeking well-skilled and highly trained workers.
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Can online education in California help expand college access?
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A new report by The Twenty Million Minds Foundation (20MM) focuses on options and pathways to completion for students at California's three public higher education systems who are trapped in "bottleneck courses" and are unable to enroll in courses they need to reach their goals. The Right to Educational Access: Using Online Education to Address Bottleneck Courses in California, highlights include a detailed explanation of the bottleneck course problem, an overview of current online initiatives from the three systems, a discussion of student rights and perspectives on course access, and recommendations for the application of state driven online education.
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In case you missed it: Our view of the Student Success Scorecard
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The California Community Colleges system last month took a major step in institutional transparency by making public voluminous data on the number of students who complete a certificate, degree or transfer to a four-year university.
The new data is a welcome development and provides a tremendous tool for understanding the dynamics of student success in terms of gender, race, age and preparation level. The data offers insights into students who succeed and complete certificates, degrees or transfer and those who fall by the way side.
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