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A new pilot program gives students who were formerly incarcerated or in the foster care system, and some low-income parents, money to help pay their living costs.
San Diego State University will use its experience bringing higher education to prisons to help train other educators to do the same, drawing from a newly announced $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation that will also introduce degree offerings in the humanities at Centinela State Prison. The grant supports SDSU’s VISTA (Valuing Incarcerated Scholars through Academia) program, which currently awards B.A.
From complex general education requirements to early application deadlines, transferring from community college to California State University, Northridge proved to be a confusing process for Vanessa Rivera. Now, as a graduate intern at the Los Angeles Pierce College transfer center, Rivera works to support other students on their paths to the CSU system. “I was a lost college student, and I was really intimidated to seek help,” Rivera said.
In California, 300,000 undergraduate student parents enroll in college each year. However, their backgrounds, family characteristics, and educational experiences are not well understood, particularly at the state level. So, we sought to paint a portrait of the student parents in this state that is more comprehensive, accurate, and timely than previous efforts.
After bringing his story all the way to the University of California Board of Regents, a disabled UC Berkeley student has prompted the UC to ensure emergency evacuation chairs are in every multi-storied building in the 10-university system.
On a recent spring afternoon, about a dozen students gathered in Los Angeles City College’s multipurpose room for a free financial literacy workshop. Some of those students are majoring in business administration or finance. A few are working on a second degree. One attended with her child. The students have unique personal goals, but all of them want greater control over their financial futures.
For 17 days, a private security force patrolled UC Berkeley on foot and on bicycles but did not step onto the campus or coordinate with campus police. The SafeBears ambassadors made their rounds throughout the night and into the early morning, wearing bright yellow uniforms but carrying no weapons. But the highly rated university did not deploy the extra security detail.
Karlen Nurijanyan could barely afford a grilled cheese while he attended Santa Monica College in 2010. Fourteen years ago, there was little support for food-insecure students and a larger stigma for those seeking out basic needs.
While some California public universities now offer dual admission, the partnership of Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University is an example of those that have been offering it a long time.