Submitted by Rick Seltzer on August 21, 2018 - 3:00am
Berkeley and UCLA might be able to maintain their quality and reputation without a major shift to the funding paradigm, a new report says. For the rest of the University of California, no easy model exists.
The biggest and perhaps least likely state to try performance funding will tie billions of dollars for community colleges to measures of student success, a plan faculty groups say will punish students and colleges.
With nearly 50 different local tuition-free initiatives, California colleges contemplate how they may merge existing programs with a new statewide plan.
California’s community colleges seek to rebrand career and technical education amid a broad state push that includes $200 million more in annual funding.
City College of San Francisco is struggling with money woes, dwindling enrollment and a long-running accreditation crisis, but many in the state say the college is changing for the better.
To receive portions of the money allocated to them in the new state budget, California's public universities will need to admit more in-state students.