California community colleges could offer bachelor's degree programs under proposed bills
There's a push at the California State Capitol to allow community colleges to offer bachelor's degree programs.
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There's a push at the California State Capitol to allow community colleges to offer bachelor's degree programs.
A community college district has bought up a Cupertino apartment complex to help students facing sky-high housing costs. Current residents said they have been blindsided, as they need to find a new place to live. Max Darrow reports.
A student bound for England’'s prestigious Cambridge University hasn’t forgotten her first steps into higher education at a San Jose community college. Len Ramirez reports. (4-19-24)
Gov. Newsom has signed a law allowing low-income Mexican residents who live near the border to be eligible for in-state tuition at community colleges.
The city of Hayward and Chabot-Las Positas Community College District inaugurated a new campus and firehouse Wednesday for fire, rescue and emergency response training and education.
There’s a push to remove barriers to education and boost enrollment in the East Bay by making community college classes free. Da Lin reports. (8-14-22
Despite offering a great deal on higher education, many California community colleges are seeing huge drops in enrollment that are affecting some Bay Area students.
Santa Rosa Junior College will continue remote instruction through the end of the fall 2020 semester because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic
At a time when so many students are staggering under the weight of college debt, Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill is making a tempting offer: Free tuition.
After many students dropped out after wildfires took their homes, Santa Rosa Junior College is now planning to build a $43 million, five story student housing complex.
Free tuition for a year will be available to students in the Contra Costa Community College District starting Monday under a statewide initiative to fund free tuition at the state's community colleges.
California community college students will be guaranteed admission into the University of California if they meet certain course requirements.
City College of San Francisco has had its accreditation reaffirmed for the next seven years, school officials announced Friday.
A new study of community college students in California and across the country found about half of students reported mental health issues.
Leaders of California's vast community college system are hoping to make it easier for students to transfer to historically black colleges and universities in other states.
I'm going to sidestep the question of how we pay for this (and I realize that's a pretty big step) to focus on what's at the core of this: a recognition that community colleges are more than just "high schools with ashtrays", as they've often been called. Way more.
California school officials are set to select as many as 15 community colleges for a pilot program that would allow them to offer 4-year degrees.
Actor Tom Hanks penned an op-ed on his experiences at Hayward's Chabot College, and voiced his support for the President's plan to make two years of free community college available to millions of Americans.
President Barack Obama on Friday proposed to bring the cost of two years of community college "down to zero" for all Americans, an ambitious nationwide plan based on a popular Tennessee program signed into law by that state's Republican governor.
Going to college for free might sound too good to be true, but thanks to President Obama, that might become a reality.
The state Senate has approved a pilot program under which some California community college campuses would offer four-year degrees in certain specialized fields.
About 300 college students from San Jose boarded buses Monday and traveled to Sacramento to urge lawmakers to favor a bill allowing community colleges to offer four-year degrees, a spokesman said.
The governing board for the California's community college system will vote on a plan that would require students to maintain at least a C-average to remain eligible for a fee waiver.
The regional panel that decided last month to revoke the accreditation of City College of San Francisco effective next year is now under increased review itself after state legislators Wednesday approved a request to audit the organization.
Students from City College of San Francisco took over City Hall Tuesday night, protesting a recent decision by a regional panel to revoke the school's accreditation and to seek Mayor Ed Lee's help.
