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California’s community colleges face a difficult path forward. Across the state, from San Diego to counties on the northern border, enrollments at many community colleges have plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic. Systemwide, more than 260,000 fewer students enrolled in fall 2020 compared to fall 2019, potentially threatening the long-term existence of some colleges unless they can dramatically turn things around, the system’s Board of Governors learned recently. The largest college system in the nation, California’s community colleges enroll about 2 million full- and part-time stu...

Print Across the state, from San Diego to the northern border, enrollment at many community colleges has plummeted during the pandemic, threatening the future of some campuses, the system’s Board of Governors has learned. Systemwide, more than 260,000 fewer students enrolled in fall 2020 compared with fall 2019, a 16.8% drop. Enrollment in California’s community college system, the largest in the nation with about 2 million full- and part-time students, has largely been flat for the past decade. Colleges that experienced significant drops could be at risk if they “don’t stabilize or b...

Many colleges don’t have a system in place to evaluate emergency aid requests and instead fell back on students’ existing financial aid information from documents like the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. While the FAFSA paints a picture of a student’s family income history and financial situation, it does not accurately estimate a student’s immediate financial need because it is based on income from previous years, not up-to-the-minute information. Some colleges lack the staffing necessary to sort and approve emergency aid requests. They’ve struggled to hand out the money ...

Print Across the state, from San Diego to the northern border, enrollments at many community colleges have plummeted during the pandemic, threatening the future of some campuses, the system’s Board of Governors has learned. Systemwide, more than 260,000 fewer students enrolled in fall 2020 compared with fall 2019, a 16.8% drop. Enrollment in California’s community college system, the largest in the nation with about 2 million full- and part-time students, has largely been flat for the past decade. Colleges that experienced significant drops could be at risk if they “don’t stabilize or...

California community college enrollment plummets amid pandemic, putting some campuses at risk Michael Burke, Daniel J. Willis © Provided by The LA Times Following social distancing measures, a student picks up a laptop placed in the parking lot of Chaffey College on March 25, 2020, at the Chino, Calif., campus. According a press release, Chaffey College lent about 5,000 laptops to students as it transitioned most classes online amid the pandemic. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times) Across the state, from San Diego to the northern border, enrollments at many community colleges ha...