Eloy Ortiz Oakley

A 2017 law started to phase out remedial courses at community colleges, but while there’s been progress, many students still end up taking classes experts say they don’t need.

Suponiendo que el presidente apruebe el paquete de ayuda bipartidista del Congreso de $900 mil millones, los colegios comunitarios de California esperan recibir $1 mil millones en efectivo que tanto necesitan, dinero destinado a ayuda directa para estudiantes y apuntalar las maltrechas finanzas de las universidades.

The California Community College chancellor has led ambitious reforms and helped significantly improve transfer rates to the four-year universities.

Lea este artículo en español.  David Lewis was just a few credits shy of earning his associate’s degree in journalism from Long Beach City College when the pandemic hit. Lewis, 29, was already encountering scheduling conflicts between his classes and a new job at Trader Joe’s. As the assignments for his online classes started to pile […]

La derogación de la prohibición de la acción afirmativa facilitará que los colegios y universidades públicas se dirijan a grupos insuficientemente representados para ocupar puestos de profesorado.

Students presented California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Oakley with a variety of concerns, and his responses had a common thread: The community college system needs more money.

Good morning, California. It’s Wednesday, August 12. Let the lobbying begin Joe Biden chose California Sen. Kamala Harris as his vice-presidential running mate Tuesday, putting the Golden State on the national ticket for the first time in nearly 40 years and launching yet another game of political musical chairs — this time in the hands […]

A district judge today barred the U.S. Department of Education’s initial rules about which students could have federal relief money from being enforced. The decision means undocumented students, among others, may receive money from California community colleges as part of the CARES Act. 

Newsom's approval hits record high amid response to coronavirus pandemic. George Floyd protests spread to richer, whiter communities.

California’s extensive community college system is responsible for helping train a huge number of the state’s police officers. Eloy Ortiz Oakley, the system’s chancellor, wants to change the curriculum to help fight racism.