Higher Education

Community colleges are designed to help students get an associate degree and transfer to a four-year university. Most community college students never graduate or transfer, a state audit found.

After delays and mishaps, California announces $450 million for high school career pathways.

Failed legislative bills have attempted to create safe parking programs for students to sleep in their cars on California campuses while awaiting housing. Meanwhile, Long Beach City College allows homeless students to park overnight.

The unfolding rules are a response to last spring’s series of campus protests that led to hundreds of arrests. State lawmakers withheld $25 million from the UC until the system updated its policies.

The number of students taking college courses online has grown, particularly at the California Community Colleges. While campuses see the modality as increasing accessibility for students, the federal government is calling for greater oversight into the quality and effectiveness of online instruction.

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing, which set up another conflict with the California State University, a system that already offers these bachelor’s degrees.

Lawmakers want to ban legacy admissions at California private colleges, even though few colleges admit students that way. Bill backers say the bill will signal to students that college is for them in the aftermath of the national ban on affirmative action.

The University of California’s student government wants every campus to have a collegiate recovery program, which offer support groups and other tools to help students battle addiction. Right now half of the campuses have them.

Changes are underway one year after scathing audits showed how the California State University system failed to handle reports of sexual discrimination, harassment and assault in its Title IX offices.

University of California’s Board of Regents is a step closer to requiring that statements of academic departments appear on separate webpages rather than on departmental homepages. Interest in the issue swelled as professors and students debated the war in Gaza.