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Suzanne Potter California News Service State data first reported by EdSource show that fraudsters have stolen more than $7.5 million in student financial aid from California community colleges so far this year. The theft amounts to less than one-tenth of 1% of student aid awarded in the Golden State. Victor DeVore,...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters Las universidades privadas sin fines de lucro de California ya no podrán otorgar a los estudiantes una ventaja de admisión si sus padres donaron o asistieron a la misma universidad después de que el gobernador Gavin Newsom firmara una ley el 1 de octubre que prohíbe...
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Mikhail Zinshteyn CalMatters California’s private nonprofit colleges will no longer be able to grant students an admissions advantage if their parents donated to or went to the same college after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law on October 1 banning the practice. The state joins a rarefied group of four others that have...
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Mas de seis millones de californianos abandonaron la universidad antes de obtener un título, y un nuevo informe presenta un plan para traerlos de regreso al campus. Investigadores de la organización sin fines de lucro California Competes en Oakland entrevistaron a más de 50 estudiantes a los que llaman “regresantes” para...
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More than 6 million Californians stopped out of college before getting a degree and a new report has laid out a plan to bring them back on campus. Researchers from the nonprofit California Competes in Oakland interviewed more than 50 students they call “comebackers” for the report, entitled “From Setback to...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters Más de un año después de que los colegios comunitarios de California recibieran $650 millones en dinero de ayuda estatal por el COVID-19, las escuelas han gastado menos del 20% de ese dinero. Las universidades dicen que necesitan desesperadamente el dinero, pero que se muestran reacias...
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Adam Echelman CalMatters More than a year after California community colleges received $650 million in state COVID-19 relief money, schools have spent less than 20% of it. Colleges say they desperately need the money, but that they are reluctant to spend it because of ongoing uncertainty surrounding the state’s...
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Los estudiantes universitarios pagan más de $1.100 al año por libros y útiles, por lo que muchas escuelas están trabajando para tratar de reducir esa carga. Un estudio del US Public Interest Research Group encuentra que el costo de los materiales de los cursos ha aumentado a un ritmo de tres...
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College students pay upwards of $1,100 a year for books and supplies, so many schools are working to try to reduce the burden. A study from U.S. Public Interest Research Group found the cost of course materials has increased at three times the rate of inflation since the 1970s, due mostly to lack...