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The program would base financial aid on not only the cost of tuition, but rather on the total cost of attendance – including the cost of housing, transportation and textbooks.
Authored by Sen. Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino), SB 291 creates a new financial aid award program to help pay for expenses not already covered by a student’s family contributions, employment and other aid, such as Pell Grants and the Cal Grant program.
Under the program, financial aid would be available whether a student is seeking a degree, certificate, or short-term career education program.
“In recent years, the true cost of attending college has made higher education difficult or even impossible to achieve for far too many students,” Sen. Leyva said. “Unfortunately, the true cost of attending community college is much more than just tuition. When non-tuition costs like housing, food, transportation and textbooks are considered, it is unacceptable that community college is typically more expensive for the lowest-income students than other state universities. SB 291 will ensure that our community colleges remain affordable for everyone by creating this important financial aid program that helps to cover a community college student’s whole cost of attendance.”
While nearly 40 percent of undergraduates at the University of California system and approximately 36 percent of students at the California State University system received a Cal Grant last year, only five percent of community college students received one.
California community colleges enroll about two-thirds of the state’s undergraduate students, yet they receive only seven percent of Cal Grant funds.
Though California’s community colleges offer among the least expensive tuition rates in the country at $46 per unit, the actual cost of attending a community college for a student living independently is more than $20,000 annually when housing, transportation, textbooks and personal items are taken into account.
A California community college student receiving the maximum amount of aid possible today would still fall thousands of dollars short.
Very few community college students qualify for financial aid to cover living expenses, transportation or textbooks, and low-income students with unmet financial need have limited choices: work more hours, take fewer courses, accumulate what can become crushing debt, or drop out of school.
Co-sponsored by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, SB 291 is supported by the Asian Pacific American Leadership Foundation, California Coalition for Youth, California Edge Coalition, California Federation of Teachers, California Workforce Association, Campaign for College Opportunity, Community College League of California, Greater Sacramento Urban League, Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Social Workers / California Chapter, Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, The Education Trust – West, The Institute for College Access & Success, United Food and Commercial Workers / Western States Council, Urban League of San Diego County, community college student and faculty organizations, as well as many community college districts from across California.
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“Chancellor Oakley has demonstrated the intellect, courage, creativity and heart needed to lead the California Community Colleges to continued success in the future,” said Epstein, noting that the board’s move was supported by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office. “We look forward to approving a new contract with the chancellor to send a message that our commitment to student achievement and equity will continue.”
After a closed-session meeting to evaluate the performance of Oakley, who was selected as state Chancellor in July 2016, the board directed its general counsel to prepare terms of a contract renewal to be voted on at its next meeting in July.
Key reforms being implemented within the community college system to achieve the Board of Governors Vision for Success include:
• Adoption of Guided Pathways, an organizational framework that improves the way colleges build and deliver programs and better integrates student support services.
• Fundamental remedial education reforms that eliminate flawed and discriminatory standardized testing for placing student in courses when they enter college. These changes are unlocking student potential and accelerating access to transfer-level learning in English, mathematics/quantitative reasoning, and English as a Second Language.
• A revised funding formula that aligns financial incentives with student needs and rewards success so that more students entering community colleges have the opportunity to achieve their educational goals.
• The California College Promise, which makes available to colleges flexible resources such as free tuition for first time, full-time students and other types of supports to encourage academic success.
• An online college that starting in fall 2019 will be accessible to working adults who need short-term college credentials to get ahead into today’s economy but who are not able to attend brick and mortar colleges.
The California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation, composed of 73 districts and 115 colleges serving 2.1 million students per year.
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The high school history classes have researched various ways to retire the flag respectfully and have decided that they wish to bury the flag on campus.
The students will hold a ceremony on Friday, May 24, at 2:45 p.m., complete with patriotic music and a speech or two from members of the VFW post in Clearlake.
The public is invited.
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UKIAH, Calif. – Mendocino College Superintendent/President Dr. Arturo Reyes announced that Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade will speak at the Mendocino College Class of 2019 Commencement.
Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade is an associate professor of raza studies and race and resistance studies at San Francisco State University.
Dr. Duncan-Andrade is also a founder of the Roses in Concrete Community School, a community responsive lab school in East Oakland and the Community Responsive Education Group.
As a classroom teacher and school leader in East Oakland for the past 25 years, his pedagogy has been widely studied and acclaimed for producing uncommon levels of social and academic success for students.
Duncan-Andrade lectures around the world and has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters on effective practices in schools. He has written two books and is currently completing his third book with Harvard Press.
In 2015, Duncan-Andrade was tapped to be a commissioner on the National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future and in 2016 was part of the great educators invited to the White House on National Teacher Appreciation Day by President Obama. He is also the 2019 Laureate for the prestigious Brock International Prize in Education.
Duncan-Andrade has also been ranked as one of the nation’s most influential scholars by EdWeek’s Public Influence Rankings for the past four years.
Duncan-Andrade’s transformational work on the elements of effective teaching in schools serving poor and working-class children is recognized throughout the U.S. and as far abroad as New Zealand.
His research interests and publications span the areas of urban schooling and curriculum change, urban teacher development and retention, critical pedagogy, and cultural and ethnic studies.
He works closely with teachers, school site leaders, union leaders, and school district officials to help them develop classroom practices and school cultures that foster self-confidence, esteem, and academic success among all students.
Duncan-Andrade holds a Ph.D. in social and cultural studies in education and a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature, both from the University of California – Berkeley.
“We're honored to have Dr. Duncan-Andrade at this year’s commencement. His empathy for the challenges faced by our students and his advocacy for applying critical pedagogy to help close the opportunity gap for all students make him a great fit to inspire our community, enlighten our district’s equity-minded practices, and honor our graduates,” said Dr. Reyes.
The commencement ceremony is scheduled for Friday, May 24, at 6 p.m. on the Stadium Field at the Ukiah campus.
The Mendocino College Ukiah campus is located at 1000 Hensley Creek Road, Ukiah.