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Candidates for lieutenant governor talk higher education at conference Tuesday – The Daily Californian
By Sabrina Dong California’s candidates for lieutenant governor — state Senator Ed Hernandez and former U.S. ambassador to Hungary Eleni Kounalakis — spoke about college affordability, capacity and access at a moderated interview hosted by the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Tuesday night. Read more >
Watch Now: California’s Candidates for Lt. Governor on the Future of Higher Education
As a University of California regent, a trustee of the California State University, and chair of the Commission for Economic Development, California’s next lieutenant governor is well-positioned to deeply influence higher education policy and practice. It is vital for voters to understand how Read more >
Close California’s income gap with a clearer path from kindergarten to college degree
By Monica Lozano, Special to The Sacramento Bee California’s booming economy is the fifth-largest in the world—but residents experience some of the highest and fastest-growing income inequality in the nation, and our poverty rate tops all other states when cost of living Read more >
Bed, books, meals & cell phone: New study to tally real costs of college in California – EdSource
By Larry Gordon What does it really cost California students to attend college? An ambitious new survey of about 100,000 students is about to attempt to answer that question, with a special emphasis on housing, food and transportation costs. Reaching out to public Read more >
California Universities Require Nearly $50B in Construction in Next 5 Years – Nonprofit Quarterly
By Steve Dubb California universities face potential “construction and renovation expenses approaching $50 billion over the next five years,” reports Mikhail Zinshteyn in EdSource. Zinshteyn notes that this was the conclusion reached by the College Futures Foundation, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that promotes greater Read more >
California’s public colleges and universities face massive construction costs – EdSource
By Mikhail Zinshteyn Facing building construction and renovation expenses approaching $50 billion over the next five years, California public colleges and universities could save money by sharing both the cost of new facilities and how they are used. That’s one of the conclusions of Read more >
No One Likes to Talk About Them, But Deferred Maintenance Costs Won’t Go Away – The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Lee Gardner Ask college presidents about the health of their institutions, and they’re happy to rattle off enrollment figures or capital-campaign progress reports. Ask about how deferred-maintenance costs on their campuses are piling up, and they get a little quiet. That’s because most colleges Read more >
Community Foundation for Monterey County here for good – The Californian
By Dan Baldwin There is an adage in our field that goes, “If you’ve seen one community foundation, you’ve seen one community foundation.” As place-based centers of philanthropy, all community foundations will be different because they’re reflections of the donors, needs, geography, and Read more >
We promise kids they can get a public college education if they work hard. Are we lying? – The Sacramento Bee
By Ted Lempert and Lenny Mendonça California’s higher education system is about to be hit by a tidal wave of new students, and we have failed to prepare for the influx into our public colleges and universities. In April, state Superintendent of Public Read more >
California colleges are turning away students. It’s time to rethink funding for UC and CSU – The Sacramento Bee
By Russell S. Gould and Elizabeth Hill Thanks to our parents’ and grandparents’ generations, when we were growing up in California we knew that if we did the work in high school there was a place for us in the University of California Read more >
