Angel Fabre

Higher Education

How some college counselors are fighting back against pandemic-induced enrollment decline

Thousands of California high school graduates didn’t go to college last year due to the pandemic. The drop, which mostly affected community colleges, might be temporary, but it showed the need to provide more support for students going from high school to college. A new counseling program in Riverside County aims to do just that.

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Charlotte West

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Angel Fabre

• June 16, 2021

College Beat

Photo Essay: When Our Roommate Got COVID

Shae Hammond, a senior at California State University Northridge, was relaxing on her front porch after returning from a weekend camping trip in September when she got an unexpected text from her roommate, Jen Martinez. Martinez’s boyfriend — who had recently been in the women’s apartment — had contracted COVID-19. The first thing to run […]

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Angel Fabre

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Shae Hammond

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Charlotte West

• April 15, 2021

College Beat

The Class of COVID-19

International students forced to return to their home countries. Low-income students losing the jobs that kept them afloat. Professors and students alike pushed off campus and adjusting to virtual learning, sometimes without access to the technology they needed. The coronavirus pandemic disrupted nearly every aspect of California higher education as we knew it. In the […]

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• January 26, 2021

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