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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters California’s community colleges have been trying for several years to offer more bachelor’s degrees. This year, they put their hopes in two sweeping bills designed to help them do that. But lawmakers made massive, last-minute changes that prompted the state’s community colleges to now oppose the...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters California’s community colleges have been battling fraudulent students for years, trying to prevent scammers from stealing financial aid money. Recent data shows the colleges’ efforts finally may be working. Last spring, CalMatters reported that colleges were seeing unprecedented reports of fraud, with scammers stealing millions more dollars...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Hudson Idov wasn’t excited about any of his college options — that is, until his Los Angeles house burned down in the Palisades Fire his senior year of high school. Less than a week after graduation, he and one of his classmates enrolled in the carpentry...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters A Hudson Idov no le entusiasmaba ninguna de sus opciones universitarias, hasta que su casa en Los Ángeles se incendió en el incendio de Palisades durante su último año de la preparatoria. Menos de una semana después de graduarse, él y uno de sus compañeros se...
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Varias universidades de California están cancelando un programa diseñado para ayudar a los hijos de trabajadores migrantes durante su primer año en el campus, debido a que la administración Trump expresa que rechazará futuras solicitudes. El Programa de Asistencia Universitaria para Migrantes, conocido como CAMP, atiende a unos 2400 hijos...
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Multiple California colleges are winding down a program designed to help the children of migrant workers during their freshman year on campus because the Trump administration said it will deny any future applications. The College Assistance Migrant Program serves about 2,400 children of migrant farmworkers per year and pays for dedicated tutoring, counseling,...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters En los últimos dos años, el gobernador Gavin Newsom vetó tres proyectos de ley que habrían permitido a los colegios comunitarios otorgar más títulos de licenciatura a sus estudiantes. Sin inmutarse, los legisladores ahora respaldan un cuarto proyecto de ley que hace prácticamente lo mismo. La...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters In the past two years, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed three bills that would have allowed community colleges to award students more bachelor’s degrees. Unfazed, lawmakers are now backing a fourth bill that does much of the same. The measure, Assembly Bill 664, cleared its first legislative tests...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Enseñar a los jóvenes sobre el cambio climático es esencial para que las generaciones futuras comprendan y estén preparadas para los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos y las perturbaciones medioambientales que se están acelerando. Integrar la alfabetización climática en la educación superior puede garantizar que...
Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters California’s community colleges have been trying for several years to offer more bachelor’s degrees. This year, they put their hopes in two sweeping bills designed to help them do that. But lawmakers made massive, last-minute changes that prompted the state’s community colleges to now oppose the...
Adam Echelman CalMatters California’s community colleges have been battling fraudulent students for years, trying to prevent scammers from stealing financial aid money. Recent data shows the colleges’ efforts finally may be working. Last spring, CalMatters reported that colleges were seeing unprecedented reports of fraud, with scammers stealing millions more dollars...
Adam Echelman CalMatters Hudson Idov wasn’t excited about any of his college options — that is, until his Los Angeles house burned down in the Palisades Fire his senior year of high school. Less than a week after graduation, he and one of his classmates enrolled in the carpentry...
Adam Echelman CalMatters A Hudson Idov no le entusiasmaba ninguna de sus opciones universitarias, hasta que su casa en Los Ángeles se incendió en el incendio de Palisades durante su último año de la preparatoria. Menos de una semana después de graduarse, él y uno de sus compañeros se...
Varias universidades de California están cancelando un programa diseñado para ayudar a los hijos de trabajadores migrantes durante su primer año en el campus, debido a que la administración Trump expresa que rechazará futuras solicitudes. El Programa de Asistencia Universitaria para Migrantes, conocido como CAMP, atiende a unos 2400 hijos...
Multiple California colleges are winding down a program designed to help the children of migrant workers during their freshman year on campus because the Trump administration said it will deny any future applications. The College Assistance Migrant Program serves about 2,400 children of migrant farmworkers per year and pays for dedicated tutoring, counseling,...
Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters En los últimos dos años, el gobernador Gavin Newsom vetó tres proyectos de ley que habrían permitido a los colegios comunitarios otorgar más títulos de licenciatura a sus estudiantes. Sin inmutarse, los legisladores ahora respaldan un cuarto proyecto de ley que hace prácticamente lo mismo. La...
Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters In the past two years, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed three bills that would have allowed community colleges to award students more bachelor’s degrees. Unfazed, lawmakers are now backing a fourth bill that does much of the same. The measure, Assembly Bill 664, cleared its first legislative tests...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Enseñar a los jóvenes sobre el cambio climático es esencial para que las generaciones futuras comprendan y estén preparadas para los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos y las perturbaciones medioambientales que se están acelerando. Integrar la alfabetización climática en la educación superior puede garantizar que...