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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 or the California State University systems. State policymakers and taxpayers supported a Read more >
Publications & Research
Leading the Way: Cuyamaca College Transforms Math Remediation (2017)
In California, nearly 65% of community college students placed into remedial math courses never complete the math requirements to earn a bachelor’s degree. Traditional remediation sequences have become a significant barrier to college persistence and success—especially for students of color, who are more often designated “unprepared” for college math and assigned to longer remediation sequences Read more >
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Meeting California’s Need for College Graduates: A Regional Perspective (2017)
Research by the Public Policy Institute of California projects that the state will face a shortfall of 1.1 million college degrees by 2030, if recent economic and education trends continue. The majority of California’s public school students are low-income and youth of color. Improving degree attainment for these students is essential for meeting the demand Read more >
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Ashley Swearengin Joins College Futures Foundation Board of Directors
Ashley Swearengin, President and CEO of the Central Valley Community Foundation, was appointed to the College Futures Foundation board of directors this summer. Swearengin will help oversee the College Futures Foundation’s strategic development and guide investments to improve college access, persistence, and degree attainment for low-income California students. Currently, Swearengin is President and CEO of the Read more >
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Hear My Voice: Strengthening the College Pipeline for Young Men of Color (2017)
Young men of color face unique barriers to college access and completion. These students—who account for one third of California’s public school population—are disproportionately low-income and attending under-resourced schools. On top of these social and economic challenges, young men of color face negative stereotypes in the media, and in schools, that lower expectations for them Read more >
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College Going and College Readiness in LAUSD (2017)
Many school districts in California are focused on preparing their students for success in college, yet few have information about how they fare once they enroll, whether or not they graduate with a degree, and how college readiness supports for students are working. Research Tracks LAUSD Students’ College Enrollment Rates and How LAUSD Prepares Students Read more >
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DACA News: We Stand Behind Opportunity and Privacy for Dreamers
The Trump administration has announced that it will reverse the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy and indicated that it is up to Congress to replace the program. College Futures Foundation strongly disagrees with the decision to roll back this just, principled, and sound policy, which protects undocumented students—“Dreamers” who came to the U.S. as Read more >
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Many L.A. Students Get to College; Only a Few Finish – Los Angeles Times
By Howard Blume A study released Wednesday put an exclamation point on something that Los Angeles Unified School District officials already have acknowledged: too few of their graduates—about one in four—are earning a college degree. The latest data points from two studies, by UCLA and Claremont Graduate University researchers, were no surprise to L.A. Unified. District officials had early access to Read more >
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UCLA-Claremont Study Tracks College Enrollment Rate of LAUSD Graduates – UCLA Newsroom
By George Foulsham In the first comprehensive analysis of college enrollment of Los Angeles Unified School District graduates, UCLA and Claremont Graduate University researchers found that 70 percent of high school graduates enrolled in either two- or four-year colleges, but only 25 percent of graduates went on to earn a college degree within six years. Read more >