2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (414+ words) San Mateo County’s big bet on free community college is no longer a trial run. Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that wipes out the expiration date on the local tuition-waiver program and makes it permanent, ensuring that students at…...

9+ mon, 1+ day ago   (587+ words) Students walk to class on the Cal State Northridge campus. Enrollment in the California State University system saw its biggest rebound in a decade. However three campuses, including two in the Bay Area, are still plummeting, new data shows. The…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1786+ words) FILE: Students walk in front of the library at East Los Angeles College on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Los Angeles. More than a decade ago while teaching at a community college, Connie Renda, a professor of health information management, met a…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (275+ words) Hundreds of University of California faculty members are urging the system’s governing board to crack down on what they describe as the “misuse of UC authority” for organized political activism, warning that failing to enforce existing policies could fuel allegations…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (478+ words) Educating California’s nearly 6 million public school students is the state budget’s second largest expenditure, and one that has increased sharply during Gavin Newsom’s governorship. The 2026-27 budget that Newsom proposed last month would spend $88.7 billion on students, ranging from transitional kindergartners…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (542+ words) From where we sit at the University of California, it has long been easy for faculty to lament that too many first-year students arrive academically unprepared by their K-12 schools. The latest version of this complaint took shape in the recent…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (678+ words) The Nashville-based university will take over San Francisco’s oldest art school in 2027. After 119 years, California College of the Arts will cease to be an independent institution and will be taken over by Nashville’s Vanderbilt University at the end of the…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (567+ words) By Ryan Sabalow, CalMatters What’s good for Riverside County is good for the whole state: After a pilot to automatically admit high school students into the California State University system in the Inland Empire county took off last fall, lawmakers…...

9+ mon, 4+ day ago   (332+ words) Fall student enrollment across California State University grew for the second year in a row while international student enrollment dropped, according to newly released university data. Data released Monday revealed a 2% increase in the number of students enrolled at California…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (631+ words) PITTSBURG — In partnership with the Pittsburg Unified School District, qualified high school students will have an easier pathway to college thanks to a guaranteed admissions program from Cal State University East Bay. The school district was the first in Contra…...