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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2023-03/58983-IDR.pdf\">CBO estimates (PDF)\u003c/a> that by 2027, the total percentage of borrowers in an income-driven plan will increase by about 12% annually. Typically, for every $1 invested in an income-driven covered loan, the government loses 17 cents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, out of 43.4 million borrowers, 8.5 million are in an income-driven repayment plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I have trouble repaying my loan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Contact your loan servicer to discuss options. You may choose to change repayment plans to lower monthly costs, request deferments, or enter forbearance, which allows you to stop making payments temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is the department’s relationship to loan servicers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Loan servicers like MOHELA, Nelnet, EdFinancial and ECSI are private contractors hired by the department to service loans. They are assigned to handle billing, and payment plans, and advise and assist borrowers with their student loans at no cost to borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Your servicer may have changed during the pandemic from one company to another because their contract with the department wasn’t renewed, or a new servicer was awarded a contract. These contracts typically last five years until renewal or cancellation. Sometimes a change happens when a borrower enters a new repayment or forgiveness program — for example, only one servicer handles Public Service Loan Forgiveness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The servicers should notify borrowers if there is a change.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can I discharge my loans in bankruptcy?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, but it depends on the terms of the bankruptcy court’s decision. 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Finally, borrowers who participate in \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven\">income-driven repayment plans\u003c/a> are eligible for loan forgiveness if they’ve been in repayment for 20 or 25 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11959751 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/GettyImages-1242692566-1020x689.jpg']Loans are also discharged or forgiven if your college or school closed while you were enrolled or shortly after you withdrew, or, if your college misled you or engaged in some other misconduct. Such forgiveness plans are known as \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/closed-school\">closed-school discharge\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/borrower-defense/\">borrower defense\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, President Joe Biden \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/10/04/president-biden-announces-an-additional-9-billion-in-student-debt-relief-for-125000-americans/\">announced $9 billion\u003c/a> more in student debt relief for borrowers under Public Service Loan Forgiveness, disability forgiveness, and other income-driven repayment plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens to my loans if I die?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Loans will be discharged after the required proof of death is submitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What happens to my parent’s PLUS loan if my parent dies, or if I die?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The loan will be discharged if your parent dies or you, the student, dies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>For students applying for loans:\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>How do I apply for student loans?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You may be offered student loans as part of your college’s financial aid offer. 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"content": "\u003cp>In April 2020, Alejandra Guerra, 23, started working at Amazon while finishing her associate degree in criminal justice at Sacramento City College. Working nights and weekends at the warehouse near the Sacramento airport, she earned $18.70 an hour, nearly five dollars more than she had been making prior to the pandemic as a secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hours were grueling: She finished her last warehouse shift of the week at 5:30 a.m. on Monday and started class, online, at 8 a.m. “I have very bad ADHD, so it’s very hard for me to concentrate when I’m sitting in front of a laptop, especially when I just worked a 10-and-a-half-hour shift,” she said. “I’m just thinking about sleep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She dropped out of school in May 2020 with about seven classes left to graduate. More than three years later, she still hasn’t returned, making her part of an emerging trend among community college students ages 20 to 30. While other age groups are returning to college following a drop during the COVID-19 pandemic, these twentysomethings are the last holdouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Don Miller, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Rio Hondo College\"]‘We’re seeing increased wages in occupations that don’t require a bachelor’s or an associate degree.’[/pullquote]At its lowest point following the start of the pandemic, the California Community Colleges system had lost just over 417,000 students, an 18.5% drop compared to the 2018–19 academic year. That was a 30-year low. The decline means colleges risk losing state funds in the near future, since their funding is pegged in part to enrollment. In the long-term, it means employers may grapple with a less educated or less skilled workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment numbers grew by about 5% in the 2022–23 school year, according to data provided by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. It’s the most recent data available, though numbers are not yet official. Early estimates from various community college districts show enrollment gains continuing into this fall, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that rebound is uneven: it stems largely from high school students who are taking college classes, and to a lesser extent, from adults over 30 who are returning to college after \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/06/community-college-enrollment-2/\">leaving at record rates\u003c/a> during the pandemic. Meanwhile, students in their 20s, like Guerra, continued to leave college. The state’s 116 community colleges lost more than 13,000 students between the ages of 20 and 30 last year, about a 2% decline in that population compared to the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/15153595/embed#?secret=63WRe3iOG5\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a demographic shift across the community college system. For over a decade, it was students between 20 and 30 years old who made up the plurality of students on campus. Last year, it was students under 20 who represented the largest group. These youth, particularly those in high school, have become central to the strategy of California Community College Chancellor Sonya Christian, who has said she wants to require \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/enroll-every-9th-grader-in-a-college-course-says-californias-incoming-community-college-chancellor/691065\">every ninth-grader in California to enroll in a community college course\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Low unemployment means low enrollment for some colleges\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Administrators say there is no single explanation as to why this generation of twentysomethings is lagging behind the rest. For one, the age group isn’t monolithic, and students with different racial or ethnic backgrounds showed differing trends. The population of Asian and Filipino students in their 20s declined by 6% and 12%, respectively, while the number of African American and Native students in the same age group increased by a few percentage points compared to the previous year. Another possible explanation comes from a recent survey of the state’s community college students, which found that \u003ca href=\"https://ccleague.org/sites/default/files/images/basic_needs_among_california_community_college_students-final-2023.pdf?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=d3f14c6de2-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-d3f14c6de2-151973567&mc_cid=d3f14c6de2&mc_eid=cafd8c3942\">roughly one-third of students between the ages of 21 and 30 had experienced homelessness in the past year (PDF)\u003c/a> — a higher rate than any other age group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most college administrators agree that the economy is often a leading factor. Historically, \u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/easyblog/why-enrollment-declined-what-can-we-do.html\">college enrollment fluctuates with the economy\u003c/a>. A good economy and ample job opportunities mean students often choose work over school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing increased wages in occupations that don’t require a bachelor’s or an associate degree,” said Don Miller, vice president of academic affairs at Rio Hondo College, located near Whittier in eastern Los Angeles County. He cited rising wages in the service industry, such as at Starbucks, as well as for entry-level openings at logistics companies, such as Amazon or UPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistics in particular has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/pushed-by-pandemic-amazon-goes-on-a-hiring-spree-without-equal.html\">a boost in hiring and wages since the start of the pandemic\u003c/a> as more people shifted to online shopping. New shipping warehouses opened in the Inland Empire, making Amazon the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/magazine/amazon-workers-employees-covid-19.html#:~:text=Nowhere%20in%20the,logistics%20air%20hubs\">largest private employer in the region\u003c/a>, and some Central Valley cities are close behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11962569\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11962569\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"External view of Amazon building with blue sky in the background. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/09252023_Amazon_RL_CM_02.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon SMF1 facility in Sacramento on Sept. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At East Los Angeles College, logistics and technology professor Leo Medina said his classes, which prepare students to work at places like Amazon and UPS, used to enroll more than 800 students a year before the pandemic. He lost about a quarter of his students in 2020 but said some are starting to return, often with encouragement or financial incentives from their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You hit the ceiling if you don’t have a certain amount of education or skill,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerra started out in an entry-level position at Amazon, but after a year working the night shift, she got promoted. First, she became a data analyst and then an operations supervisor, where she made about $22 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, her managers at Amazon encouraged her to go back to school. While the company covers tuition, books, and fees for many of its employees, Guerra said she was unsure whether she wanted to go back to school or instead try to advance internally through more promotions. Her mentality changed this spring, when she lost her job and had to search for a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have all these skills that I’ve learned, but there’s all these jobs that don’t want to hire me because I don’t have a degree,” she said. She found a position as a receptionist at a property management company in Sacramento and plans to enroll in college at some point next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Losing the ‘drive’ for community college\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Community colleges have collectively spent millions of dollars, much of it part of COVID relief funds, to draw back students like Guerra. They run recruitment events at churches, community centers and rodeos. They’ve set up call centers to reach out to students and are plastering billboards \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/08/california-community-colleges-2/\">with eye-catching puns\u003c/a> along highways and on buses. The Sacramento-area community college district flew a drone display in the image of a cap and gown to woo spectators at a professional soccer match. The efficacy of those marketing efforts is up for debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"education, community-college\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]But research has found a few clear trends in college recruitment. Only 13% of students who drop out of college re-enroll in school within five years, according to a\u003ca href=\"https://nscresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/SCND_Report_2019.pdf\"> 2019 analysis (PDF)\u003c/a> by the National Student Clearinghouse. Once students leave high school and put off going to college, it becomes \u003ca href=\"https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/media/k2/attachments/delaying-college-enrollment-earnings-trajectories.pdf\">harder to convince them to enroll (PDF)\u003c/a>, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunter Garcia, 22, enrolled at Butte College near Chico in the fall of 2019 after seeing a flier that advertised the school. He dropped out in the midst of the pandemic after starting his third semester and soon began working the night shift at a nearby Walmart warehouse. He didn’t feel safe at night near his apartment, and since he didn’t have a car, he walked to work each day around sunset, waiting until 10 p.m. to start his nine-hour shift. After six months, he quit. But by then, he said he felt too isolated and exhausted to restart an online education. “I just lost the drive,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many colleges are rethinking the structure of college: trying to fit school around the student, instead of the traditional model, which asks students to schedule their lives around school. In one of the most innovative approaches, eight community colleges in California have opted into a pilot program that aims to redesign part of their curricula so students can gain a degree \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/09/community-colleges/\">without ever attending class\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most colleges are making simpler changes, such as offering more flexible hours, more online classes and new courses that are more easily applicable in the workforce. 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And you know that the need right now is extreme. We have wonderful teaching programs. The teaching \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944810/california-sees-increase-in-number-of-credentialed-teachers-bucking-national-trends-but-is-it-enough\">shortage\u003c/a> is very high, especially in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The pivot is still a big change. Did it result in pretty big cuts?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re about 40% of the size that we were because we have a 45-acre campus with 25 major buildings that were primarily geared toward traditional undergraduate students living on campus. And now we don’t need a footprint that large. So there were quite a few cuts and then we had to build back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>One of the other big changes is the sale of Notre Dame de Namur’s campus to Stanford. 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The agreement itself is very private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fair enough. I had to ask. And once the sale is finished, what happens next? Does the university have to find a new physical home?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our agreement, Stanford has given us a lease-back option. They would be happy for us to stay a considerable amount of time. Even though we’re probably at least three years out from leaving, we’re already starting to make plans. We would love to stay — and plan to stay — in the community very close by because we’ve been a member of the community for so long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One consideration is that as we get more sophisticated technologically. We’re in the process now of setting up a center for excellence in teaching and learning with instructional designers to increasingly put programs online. So we’re thinking maybe a small newer building that is super high-tech. 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I think we’re going to be a little bit ahead of the game in being able to serve that demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The increase will generate $148 million in new, ongoing revenue in its first year and about $840 million over the five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is really a difficult decision for all of us,” said trustee Leslie Gilbert-Lurie. “I reluctantly support raising tuition because, for the moment, I don’t feel we have found an alternative path, and I think part of the reason that we heard the anger and the anxiety from the public is that it is shocking that we have created a culture where people don’t expect tuition to be raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961153\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1374px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961153\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CSUgraph01.png\" alt=\"A graph showing California State University's tuition rate approved increases. 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[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leslie Gilbert-Lurie, trustee, California State University\"]‘Somewhere along the way, we gave people the impression that this system is magically going to create money to sustain itself, and what we see instead, as I have toured campuses, is shocking disrepair of buildings and salaries we can’t pay.’[/pullquote] The CSU is facing demands to improve its Title IX policies and close equity gaps in student academics and graduation rates. It also has about $30 billion in capital maintenance and construction needs, enrollment challenges and demands to improve employee compensation and wages, trustee Jack McGrory said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We start with a $1.5 billion structural deficit that accumulated over the years because we didn’t take tough actions along the way,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also approved a new tuition policy that requires any future tuition hike to be assessed 18 months before it goes into effect. The policy also increases institutional financial aid by at least a third of any expected additional revenue received from tuition increases or enrollment growth. The trustees will also review the tuition policy every five years because rate increases will not be longer than five years. [aside label='More Stories on the California State University System' tag='california-state-university'] “The system is facing revenue shortfalls,” said interim Chancellor Jolene Koester. “We have also proposed a salary step structure for our staff, and the bottom line is that the total new proposed financial commitments that have been offered to our faculty and staff for the current year, 2023–24, far exceeds the entire amount of new funding available to the CSU in the 2023–24 state budget.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koester said the university presidents must make “extremely difficult, extremely painful decisions regarding how they’re going to reallocate their already limited financial resources” to meet those compensation obligations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student-trustee Diana Aguilar-Cruz offered trustees an alternative solution to shorten the tuition rate hike from five years to three or four, but the other trustees rejected that idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will benefit students in the long term and in the years to come,” she said. “But right now, it will harm our students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With students applying to CSU campuses for admission starting Oct. 1, Steve Relyea, the system’s chief financial officer, said the trustees could not delay voting on a tuition rate increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/cal-state-students-will-see-6-tuition-hike/697358?amp=1\">This story was originally published in EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A revolution is in the making at California’s community colleges: No more grades, no more sitting through lectures or seminars, no more deadlines. In a pilot program taking shape across eight of the state’s community colleges, the only requirement for some associate degrees will be “competency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students who can prove that they have the relevant skills can earn that degree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In theory, this model, known as “competency-based education,” could provide students with more flexibility and the potential to attain degrees faster in key job sectors. The pilot is geared toward working adults, many of whom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/06/community-college-enrollment-2/\">left community colleges at record rates\u003c/a> during the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the state’s population of K-12 students continues to shrink, leaving colleges with fewer students right out of high school, the pilot aims to attract adults who are already in the workforce by “valuing their lived and work experience,” said Madera Community College President Ángel Reyna.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If successful, these community colleges will set themselves apart from every other two-year institution in the country. The pilot, which launched in 2021, provides \u003ca href=\"https://www.datawrapper.de/_/3nzyx/\">eight California community colleges\u003c/a> with up to $515,000 over four years to design a single associate degree program using this new model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is for students to be able to enroll at some point in the 2024–25 academic year, said Aisha Lowe, an executive vice chancellor at the California Community College Chancellor’s Office. In practice, colleges must overcome bureaucratic and logistical hurdles to make the new system work. At least one community college says it is struggling to hit the state’s deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge is to create something that works “but isn’t so different that colleges can still wrap their heads around it and engage,” Lowe said. “It’s definitely unprecedented.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new way to measure learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new model restructures the requirements of a degree to reflect what students have learned, rather than the amount of time they spend in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, all college degrees require a certain number of hours spent in a classroom, either in-person or virtually. An associate degree, which California’s community colleges offer, requires roughly 3,000 hours spent in a classroom or on homework in a traditional academic year. That’s why some refer to it as a “two-year degree.” [aside label='More on Education' tag='california-education'] Teachers get paid in part based on the number of hours they teach. Because of the high number of part-time students, the state funds colleges and universities based largely on the number of hours that a student spends in class, not the number of students themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this current system, students may be required to sit through classes to get college credit even if they can demonstrate they already have some of the requisite skills. Students who may have less time for school because of work or family obligations lose out too, said Charla Long, the president of the Competency-Based Education Network, a consultant for California’s pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve created an inequitable system because it’s so time-bound,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the new system, students seeking an associate degree in early childhood education at Shasta College in Redding will take 60 different exams, each one testing a specific skill, said Buffy Tanner, the college’s director of innovation and special projects. Students in the program will have materials to teach themselves, teachers will be available to answer questions and counselors will be able to provide wraparound support. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Charla Long, president, Competency-Based Education Network\"]‘We’ve created an inequitable system because it’s so time-bound.’[/pullquote] Currently, a student is required to take 20 semester-long classes for that same degree. Students in the new program will be able to take an exam up to three times and can move as quickly or as slowly as they want, Tanner said. In-state students in the new program who do not qualify for financial aid will pay the same total tuition, just shy of $2,800 for an associate degree, not including the cost of books, classroom supplies, or other miscellaneous fees. Shasta College, like the other colleges in the pilot, is still trying to figure out how much to pay faculty in the new system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every student can succeed in this self-paced format. Tanner said the plan is to vet students for the program through questions about their lives and study habits: “Do you need external deadlines? What kind of self-discipline do you have?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to make sure students fully understand what they’re getting into,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A growing phenomenon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Such \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/09/community-colleges/\">alternative education systems\u003c/a> have existed for decades. Since the 1970s, some colleges and universities have experimented with new models of teaching and learning that offer more flexibility and try to evaluate students based on what they know, not on how much time they spent in class, Long said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1997, a group of 19 governors from Western states agreed to develop a private, nonprofit institution, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.wgu.edu/student-experience/learning/how.html\">Western Governors University\u003c/a>, to provide “competency-based” education. With roughly 150,000 students today, it’s the \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_312.10.asp\">largest higher education institution in the country\u003c/a>. Though headquartered in Utah, the university is entirely online and boasts students from all 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other large for-profit and nonprofit university systems have experimented with the same model, including Capella University, an online college, and Southern New Hampshire University. California followed. In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/gov-brown-pushes-online-community-college-in-his-state-of-the-state-faculty-critic-remains-unmoved/593020\">at the behest of former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, the state created a new community college, known as Calbright, which is free, entirely online, and exclusively “competency-based.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is radically different, and an incredibly powerful way to support our students,” Calbright’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.calbright.org/newsroom/blog/what-is-competency-based-education/\">blog\u003c/a> says about its model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.air.org/sites/default/files/2021-07/State-of-the-Field-Findings-from-2020-Postsecondary-CBE-Survey-July-2021.pdf\">2020 survey (PDF)\u003c/a> of nearly 500 colleges and universities across the country found that 13% were already offering at least one degree or certificate through competency-based education and roughly half of those surveyed were in the process of adopting one, though the report noted that there’s “considerable variation” about how they define the model.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Late-night homework makes progress slow\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Calbright student Jeremy Cox, the appeal was less about the instructional method and more about the convenience of online education. He started taking online classes in 2016 through for-profit companies such as Udemy and Coursera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11960916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02.jpg\" alt='An older man with a blue, collared shirt that says \"Calbright College\" on it stands in a walkway with trees.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Cox at Seal Beach on Aug. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To be able to just pull out a phone and bust out a couple of lessons from Udemy or Coursera, that’s very helpful,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day while at a park near Long Beach with his children, Cox ran into a woman who told him about Calbright College. While Udemy and Coursera do not focus on a particular instructional method, Cox said his experience at Calbright College has been pretty similar, with two key differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike Udemy or Coursera, he said, Calbright provides teachers who are more available and respond quickly to questions via Slack, a messaging app. The other difference is social interaction. He has become involved in building community among his classmates and serves as the college’s first student body president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calbright has had consistent enrollment growth each academic year since it began, despite \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/05/calbright-community-college-audi/\">a scathing report\u003c/a> from the state auditor’s office. State legislators have repeatedly tried to defund the school, pointing to poor academic outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though the college advertises that students can finish certificate programs in less than a year, CalMatters found that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2023/04/calbright-community-college/\">fewer than 10% of Calbright students do\u003c/a>. The data only runs through the spring of 2022, and Calbright was unable to provide updated figures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox said he had intended to complete an IT certification at Calbright in three to six months with a goal of one day getting a job that involves user design, artificial intelligence or blockchain. Now, he expects it to take about a year and a half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My study time is when the kids go to bed. I only have after 10 p.m.,” he said. “And then with student body responsibilities, my time is split between the two. Half of it is with the student body and half is my studies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Creating an ‘unprecedented’ new system\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>With this new pilot, these eight community colleges in California aim to go one step further than Calbright College, using a similar concept but creating new curricula and setting up new systems to provide even more flexibility for students. Calbright is not in the pilot, but Lowe said the college has provided advice, such as strategies to support students outside the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the 2024–25 school year, these eight colleges plan to change part of their state funding formula, faculty pay, and financial aid regulations. They’re also adapting the licenses that allow them to operate, a process known as accreditation. These are changes that take years of work and include getting approval from district boards, state officials and federal agencies. Adapting financial aid policies is particularly cumbersome, but Long, president of the Competency-Based Education Network, said if the eight colleges can succeed, they’ll be the first two-year institutions in the country to do it. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Elizabeth Waterbury, music instructor and faculty association president, Shasta College\"]‘This whole framework is going to have to break or change and nobody really knows how to go about doing that.’[/pullquote] If the state’s community colleges can’t adapt to the competency model of no lectures or grades, other schools will beat them to it, said Lowe, an executive vice chancellor of the community college system. She pointed to “for-profits” as the primary competitor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Shasta College, Tanner said the pilot program offered an opportunity to train students as the state ramps up its plans to offer free transitional kindergarten, which is a year of school offered to any 4-year-old before kindergarten. California will need \u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/ca-transitional-kindergarten-workforce-brief\">as many as 15,600 new early childhood educators\u003c/a> by 2025–26 to teach transitional kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law sets requirements for transitional kindergarten teachers, such as taking 24 units of early education college classes or having comparable professional experience. For those who already have some background in early childhood education, but not enough to meet the requirements, the new course model could allow them to “quickly demonstrate that they know their stuff,” Tanner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Unions and faculty leaders voice concern\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The success of the pilot depends on the support of the faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Take a look at teacher load, teacher contracts — that’s all connected to time in the classroom, lecture hours. This whole framework is going to have to break or change and nobody really knows how to go about doing that,” said Elizabeth Waterbury, a music instructor and the faculty association president at Shasta College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she supports the idea, she’s concerned about what the new system could do to faculty pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m afraid we may be the ones who could make it more difficult for California to transition to competency-based education,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tanner and her colleagues haven’t yet tried to sell the faculty union on the pilot. Instead, they plan to ask faculty involved in the pilot program to track their time so that the college first understands the workload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last fall, faculty leaders from the Madera Community College Academic Senate expressed concerns about the ways this new model might impact their pay and intellectual property, college president Reyna said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Currently, a student is required to take 20 semester-long classes for that same degree. Students in the new program will be able to take an exam up to three times and can move as quickly or as slowly as they want, Tanner said. In-state students in the new program who do not qualify for financial aid will pay the same total tuition, just shy of $2,800 for an associate degree, not including the cost of books, classroom supplies, or other miscellaneous fees. Shasta College, like the other colleges in the pilot, is still trying to figure out how much to pay faculty in the new system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not every student can succeed in this self-paced format. Tanner said the plan is to vet students for the program through questions about their lives and study habits: “Do you need external deadlines? 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With roughly 150,000 students today, it’s the \u003ca href=\"https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d21/tables/dt21_312.10.asp\">largest higher education institution in the country\u003c/a>. Though headquartered in Utah, the university is entirely online and boasts students from all 50 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other large for-profit and nonprofit university systems have experimented with the same model, including Capella University, an online college, and Southern New Hampshire University. California followed. In 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2018/gov-brown-pushes-online-community-college-in-his-state-of-the-state-faculty-critic-remains-unmoved/593020\">at the behest of former Gov. 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He started taking online classes in 2016 through for-profit companies such as Udemy and Coursera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960916\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11960916 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02.jpg\" alt='An older man with a blue, collared shirt that says \"Calbright College\" on it stands in a walkway with trees.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/CMCollege02-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremy Cox at Seal Beach on Aug. 28, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“To be able to just pull out a phone and bust out a couple of lessons from Udemy or Coursera, that’s very helpful,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day while at a park near Long Beach with his children, Cox ran into a woman who told him about Calbright College. 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Adapting financial aid policies is particularly cumbersome, but Long, president of the Competency-Based Education Network, said if the eight colleges can succeed, they’ll be the first two-year institutions in the country to do it. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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