Higher Education

You’ve got questions about how your CSU education will be disrupted during the coronavirus pandemic. Chancellor Tim White has answers.

Are you a college student whose semester has been turned upside down by the pandemic? Are you a professor who is getting acclimated to teaching your students via video conference? CalMatters College Journalism Network Editor Felicia Mello and fellow Aidan McGloin moderated a conversation with California State University Chancellor Tim White on April 2 to […]

The coronavirus is disrupting college grading in California, as students stressed out from sheltering in place and transitioning to online classes push for schools to adopt flexible grading policies that account for the upheaval in their school year.

The latest news on how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting California colleges and universities, from the CalMatters College Journalism Network.

College Beat is produced by the CalMatters College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists across the state.

California is about to embark on an enormous, unplanned experiment in remote learning — and no one knows how long it will last.

Early reports indicate children infected by the coronavirus experience a milder response than older adults. But as it arrives in Northern California, school and college officials are preparing for a growing likelihood that the highly contagious virus will disrupt learning and spark panic in young people and their naturally protective caretakers.  As dorms are being […]

California’s four-year university systems are both choosing new leaders  whose decisions will shape not only their institutions but the future of public higher education in the state and nationally.

Though not the university’s final decision on the subject, the recommendations are a blow to critics who say the tests discriminate against low-income students and underrepresented minorities. And they are a boon to the test administrators, the College Board and ACT Inc, who offered the exams to more than 100,000 students who applied to UC last year.

With Heather Hiles's resignation,  California’s first-in-the-nation online community college now has 450 students — with  no full-time faculty,  no CEO and no political champion. What will Calbright's future be?