Higher Education

Assembly Bill 1400 would enable some of California’s community colleges to offer bachelor of nursing programs. Students could pursue their education in their communities, at a cost they could afford. 

Social media swirled with rumors that ICE would be among the employers at the job fair, something the campus said is not true. Still, the campus postponed the event over concerns about Customs and Border Protection’s participation.

International students spend $6.4 billion a year in California, and immigrants account for a third of its gross domestic product. Federal anti-immigrant policies endanger that.

Women continue to lag behind men in certain science, technology, engineering and math programs.

The administration terminated the grants over alleged DEI violations. University of California attorneys argued the suspensions were arbitrary and capricious.

After hundreds of international students lost their status this spring, then regained it following lawsuits, the uncertainty of it happening again has created fear. Some students say they’ve changed the routes they take on campus, the topics they research, and what they post on social media.

Even in California, where prison access to technology and research resources is better than average, students regularly face dead ends.

UC researchers claim a judge’s previous order barred the National Science Foundation from suspending UCLA’s grants.

The suspensions affect hundreds of UCLA grants and come days after Trump’s Department of Justice concluded in an investigation that “Jewish and Israeli students at UCLA were subjected to severe” harassment.

For many Latino students, college seems like a foreign country. Many work jobs, are food insecure and yet aim to graduate. Don't count us out; we are the future.