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Has California Broken Its Higher Education Promise?
California college students are taking longer to graduate, going well-beyond the traditional two- and four-year benchmarks to earn degrees in the Community College and Cal State University systems.
By Steve Chiotakis • • 24m ListenCalifornia college students are taking longer to graduate, going well-beyond the traditional two- and four-year benchmarks to earn degrees in the Community College and Cal State University systems. That’s creating expensive consequences for students and the state, according to a new report released this week. So, why are students taking so long? And who’s to blame?
Also, while the screenplay reigns supreme in these parts, LA’s literary community has a new scene... in a bar.
Banner Image: The entrance to the headquarters of the California Community Colleges at 1102 Q Street in downtownSacramento; Credit: Coolcaesar
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2 storiesStudents Taking Longer to Earn Degrees from Community Colleges
In the 1960s, California made a pledge to its young people: if you wanted a college education, you could get one, starting with Community College. Today the state’s 112 Community Colleges, with 2.1 million students, makes up the largest higher education system in the county. But that half-century long promise is in trouble.
Read the story16 minReza Aslan Looks to Enliven LA’s Staid Literary Scene
No doubt about it, writing is a lonely sport. Words come from within, and go to a computer screen or thumb drive. Or, if you’re old school – and a lot of people are old school – a piece of paper. Even from a typewriter. But the lonely writer needs dialogue, too. Other people with whom to talk, laugh, and commiserate. Drink.
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