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Tag: California State University
Community Colleges
California Gov. Newsom Proposes $12 Billion Increase in Higher Ed Investments
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a $12 billion increase for higher ed, with investments in college affordability, strengthening pathways, improving time to degree and graduation and addressing COVID-19 pandemic impacts on students. The investments aim to close racial equity gaps, which have been exacerbated during the pandemic. The higher ed budget proposed in the […]
May 18, 2021
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2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Cynthia Wang
Dr. Cynthia Wang was in Hong Kong looking for a gay bar in 2009. It wasn’t easy. She found herself scouring old Yahoo groups from the 1990s, going to places listed only to find they were gone.
January 26, 2021
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2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Soua Xiong
As a child of Vietnam War refugees, Dr. Soua Xiong always wanted to make his parents proud. To do so, he sought the route of higher education in hopes of being able to financially support his family.
January 22, 2021
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California Competes Dashboard Spotlights Data on Black, Latinx Adult Learners
Since releasing its report, “Postsecondary to Prosperity: Examining California’s Opportunity Landscape,” California Competes has continued to release key data to fuel interest in policy and action to promote equitable access and student success. Last week, data about higher education in Los Angeles County drew attention, notably that 44% of adults have expressed an intention to enroll in college in the next two years.
January 11, 2021
Latinx
Closing the Opportunity Gap: California State University, Sacramento Earns 2020 Seal of Excelencia
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education and Excelencia in Education have partnered to exclusively release names of the institutions that have earned the 2020 Seal of Excelencia, a national certification that confirms an institution goes beyond enrollment to intentionally serve Latino students. California State University, Sacramento, one of the five institutions to earn the 2020 Seal of Excelencia, has changed the trajectories of many Latinx families by creating programs to serve students who often have no support.
October 7, 2020
Social Justice
Cal State Scholars Call New Ethnic Studies or Social Justice Course Requirement a “Trojan Horse”
The California State University system board of trustees voted in favor of requiring students to take an ethnic studies or social-justice-related course before they graduate. But ethnic studies scholars opposed the change, arguing that it doesn’t actually require an ethnic studies class.
August 3, 2020
COVID-19
U of California Anticipates Most Campuses Will Operate in Hybrid Mode for Fall 2020
University of California (UC) president Janet Napolitano said on Wednesday that “every campus will be open and offering instruction” this coming fall but added that she “anticipates that most, if not all of our campuses, will operate in some kind of hybrid mode,” reported The Mercury News. A hybrid mode entails some in-person instruction and some […]
May 21, 2020
COVID-19
As U.S. Schools Face Difficult Choice, Cambridge U Goes Fully Online Until Summer 2021
While U.S. institutions debate whether to open campus for in-person instruction, remain fully online or adopt a hybrid of the two this coming fall, across the pond, Cambridge University has announced all of its lectures will be online-only until summer 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reported the BBC. “Given that it is likely that […]
May 20, 2020
COVID-19
None of the U of California Campuses May Fully Reopen This Fall
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, none of the campuses of the University of California (UC) system may fully reopen this fall, a spokesperson told two separate publications. On Tuesday, the California State University system said its classes will be primarily online this coming fall. If UC decides similarly, it would mean the two systems’ nearly […]
May 13, 2020
News Roundup
California State University System’s Fall 2020 Will Be Mainly Online
The California State University system’s classes will be mainly online this coming fall, reported the Los Feliz Ledger. The system’s chancellor Timothy White said the reason for staying mostly online is that experts predict another wave of COVID-19 cases later in the year. He said there will be some exceptions for parts of courses that […]
May 12, 2020
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Report Explores Equity in Pathways to Ensure Students’ Math Success
It has been researched and discussed at length that placement tests and remedial mathematics courses are obstacles for many students, particularly those from marginalized and underserved communities. Colleges and universities throughout the U.S. have been examining and revising math requirements and creating new options beyond the traditional entry level algebra course. Just Equations, a non-profit […]
May 5, 2020
COVID-19
California State U Suspends ACT/SAT Requirement For 2021-2022 Academic Year
California State University on Friday said it will temporarily suspend the requirement of standardized exams ACT/SAT for the 2021-2022 academic year in light of the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement, the university made clear that the “temporary change of admission eligibility applies only for the fall 2021, winter 2022 and spring 2022 admission cycles.” To be […]
April 19, 2020
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