Adding Seats Where Access Is Needed Most
Last year’s state budget called for a revised approach to distributing new growth in California’s community colleges. Designed to address problems in the old formula, the new legislation bases funding...
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Update: Innovation Awards distributed to Winning Institutions
On Monday, April 27th, the Committee on Awards for Innovation in Higher Education had its final meeting where the members unanimously approved the expenditure plans for the 14 winning colleges, which...
View ArticleNew Executive Director at California Competes
Things are busy here at California Competes! After five years of leading the charge to improve California’s higher education system, Executive Director Bob Shireman is leaving California Competes to...
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Mind the Gap: Delivering on California’s Promise for Higher Education
In 2012 California Competes called for the state to articulate specific degree attainment goals to advance our regional economies and local communities. In this new report, Mind the Gap: Delivering on...
View ArticleNew Report Finds Degree Gap in California Has Grown to 2.4 Million by 2025
View the digital report. Download the report. Today California Competes released a report, Mind the Gap: Delivering on California’s Promise for Higher Education, that updates California’s projected...
View ArticleCollege access: Tuition only part of story
This Op-Ed originally appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle By Julia I. Lopez and Mike Roos For many in California, May marks the beginning of commencement season. Graduates and their families mark...
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Lande Ajose testifies at Assembly Select Committee on the Master Plan hearing
On Wednesday November 1, 2017, Dr. Ajose testified at the second of five hearings convened by the Assembly Select Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education in California. She discussed the...
View ArticleCalifornia colleges are turning away students. It’s time to rethink funding...
This Op-Ed originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee, September 26, 2017 By Russell S. Gould and Elizabeth Hill Thanks to our parents’ and grandparents’ generations, when we were growing up in...
View ArticleWe promise kids they can get a public college education if they work hard....
This Op-Ed originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee on November 16, 2017. By Ted Lempert and Lenny Mendonca California’s higher education system is about to be hit by a tidal wave of new students,...
View ArticleCalifornia Competes cited in Mercury News Op-Ed on CA Master Plan for Higher...
“By 2025, California Competes estimates that our higher education system will need to produce an additional 2.4 million bachelor’s degrees, associate’s degrees, and industry-relevant credentials above...
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