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California faces a reckoning in how it regulates for-profit colleges and trade schools at a time when more students are turning to an educational industry with a long history of fraud allegations.
The Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, the troubled state agency charged with policing and licensing those schools, is scheduled for what is shaping up as a contentious legislative oversight hearing next week, with lawmakers calling for robust changes in how it operates.
“The bureau is in need of significant improvements at a time when students are suffering immensely” in economic changes brought on by the global pandemic, Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, told EdSource. “Everything is on the table.”
Berkeley City College President Angélica Garcia has been recognized on a list of 25 educators published by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. The issue was released to coincide with Women s History Month and is the magazine s 10th anniversary of highlighting women who have made a difference in academics by tackling some of education s toughest challenges, according to a news release from the school.
Garcia, who identifies as pansexual, began her tenure as president of the community college in May 2020. The school is part of the Peralta Community College District and is known for civic engagement; student support services, including for veterans and the undocumented community; and a top college for Fulbright scholars and students transferring to four-year schools, including UC Berkeley, the release stated.
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Lawmakers are attempting to expand the Cal Grant program, a student financial aid program in California.
Hundreds of thousands of additional California students, particularly older students, could become eligible for financial aid through a proposed overhaul to the state s grant program.
Two Democratic California assembly members Jose Medina of Riverside County and Kevin McCarty of Sacramento recently introduced a bill intended to simplify the Cal Grant program and expand eligibility to nearly 200,000 additional students.
“We really have been rationing access to this Cal Grant program for the past few years, and we created a very unique system here to slice and dice people out, and we should be focusing on bringing people in,” McCarty said Thursday during a roundtable discussion on the proposal. “This is really good, not just for students and helping them graduate with less debt, but really for helping our economy.”