Crisis in State higher education
Jun 17th, 2004From the Mercury News …
Higher education in California, particularly its community college system, is facing a funding and leadership crisis that could deprive hundreds of thousands of students of the opportunity for a public college education, dimming the state's hopes for future prosperity, according to a new report.
It describes the “perfect storm'' hitting the state as the largest number of high school graduates in California history reaches college age while the state grapples with deficits that have led to Cuts in funding for higher education — a scenario that is expected to repeat through the end of the decade.
The report also proposes possible solutions for ensuring that these students have access to college and graduate once they get there. These include working more closely with K-12 schools to prepare students for college, increasing funding for higher education, and serving students more efficiently, for example, through distance education.
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