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Higher‑education leaders ask California Assembly for targeted funding to meet enrollment and workforce needs
Summary
Chancellors of the California Community Colleges and CSU and the president of the University of California outlined funding requests and policy priorities — including enrollment growth funding, a common cloud data platform, expanded credit for prior learning, and action on transfer pathways — at an Assembly Subcommittee No. 3 hearing.
Chair David Alvarez convened the Assembly Subcommittee No. 3 hearing to hear testimony from the three leaders of California’s public higher‑education segments and budget offices.
California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonia Christian told the committee the system has rebounded from pandemic declines and projected further growth. “In 2023 we regrew 4.9%… in 24–25 we surged another 9.6%,” Christian said, and asked the legislature to fund 3% enrollment growth for the next two years, above the governor’s 1.5% proposal.
Christian also asked for additional technology and equity investments: an expansion of a common cloud data platform (she cited last year’s $12 million…
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