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"content": "\u003cp>Victoria Mannah has loved being on stage since fourth grade choir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been my whole life at this point,” she said. “My dad is a choir teacher, and so I grew up, and I always wanted to be on stage and sing with my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mannah is in her final semester at Cal State East Bay, where she’s studied theater and arts since 2023. She plans to graduate this spring, but she’s worried that other students won’t be able to do the same if the department is shut down due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025961/sonoma-state-1st-csu-slash-programs-likely-wont-be-last\">campus budget cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were informed by almost every teacher in the department that they were concerned about the department being dissolved,” she told KQED. “They were encouraging students to start looking for other schools to complete their degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> system is facing an 8% funding reduction from the state, and some Bay Area campuses have struggled to maintain enrollment, bringing revenue down further. Cal State East Bay is facing a budget deficit that totaled about $14 million in the fall. And after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">major athletics and degree program cuts\u003c/a> — including to dance and theater arts — were announced at nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State\u003c/a> in January, many in the East Bay program are on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabelle Lorenzo, 20, right, a theater major with a concentration of tech and design, joins other students at California State University East Bay in a march across campus on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a dozen students working toward theater degrees climbed the spiraling stairs to University President Cathy Sandeen’s office, hand-delivering a petition signed by more than 900 CSU East Bay students, faculty and community members to her staff. Chanting “East Bay arts,” they urged Sandeen to continue funding the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school said that as of now, “the theatre and dance program remains intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be speculation on my part to talk about what cuts could be made to account for the budget deficit next year or when we might release more information,” university spokesperson Kimberly Hawkins said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State University East Bay students march across campus in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, the university said it has been able to save about $10 million throughout this budget year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Olmsted, head of the Department of Theatre and Dance, is worried about the small-but-mighty program’s odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted said the program graduates 14 to 20 students a year on four separate degree tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever it’s numbers they’re looking at, we’re never going to look good on that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is losing a lecturer, one of its four faculty members, at the end of the semester, and Olmsted is worried the department as a whole is on a list of under-enrolled programs currently eyed for discontinuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Mannah, 28, center, gathers students in a theater room for a protest against proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department at California State University East Bay, in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Sandeen sent a message to the university community saying that CSU East Bay was preparing to form a new advisory committee to “continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were suspended in the fall, and over the last 18 months, 165 lecturers who taught part-time or up to four classes a semester lost their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theatre and Dance has proposed merging with the Music Department to consolidate resources, according to Olmsted, but he isn’t sure what will happen at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12030322 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20230822-SFSU-45-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to look good on any spreadsheet ever. Our value comes from other metrics,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted believes that the Theatre and Dance Department provides a path for some students to get their bachelor’s degree who might not otherwise. It also gives students who might not be eligible to study in other performing arts programs a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a super competitive theater and dance program,” he told KQED. “We include everybody in our auditions, in our plays, and we really try to find jobs that are appropriate for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “We open our auditions to everyone — faculty, staff, students in any department. We’ve had all of those people in our shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s accessibility helped George Amaras come back to the university in the fall. Amaras originally enrolled in theater at Cal State East Bay in 2014 but took a break before their senior year to focus on mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, the pandemic happened, so that kind of added on to the break, and I was really trying to find healing before I came back,” they told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033439\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay speak to staff at the Office of the President at CSUEB in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Amaras joined one of the department’s dance troupes open to alums and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to find my ground and see where the campus was currently standing,” they said. “Since then, I started back in school this spring, and I’m here to finish now. I should be walking [at graduation] in the spring of 2026.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras said theater is a way to filter through their emotions and be creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my break, I was trying to just live and struggle with the economy and rent, but I came back because it’s something that I enjoy, and it’s more fulfilling than just a paycheck,” Amaras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras, like most of the students in the department, hopes to continue performing after school — even if it isn’t professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just job training students to work in theater or performing arts,” Olmsted said, adding that the department has alumni working full-time in the arts — from the Bay Area’s theatre circuit to Broadway — but it also produces students who go into all fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU leadership, at East Bay and elsewhere, has said they are prioritizing high-demand and career-focused majors. Arts programs are often the first to go, despite Olmsted’s assertion that the degrees do prepare students for the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay exit the Office of the President at CSUEB in protest of proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We teach students how to work on creative projects together, how to research material, how to present themselves and their ideas,” he said. “All of these really good, soft skills that will help them throughout their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in this limbo period, he doesn’t know what to say to students, whether they are currently enrolled at the school or considering attending in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a number of prospective students that I’ve talked with, and it’s really hard to just say, ‘Come on over here, it’s going to be great,’” he told KQED. “I used to be full-throated — ‘You’ll do well here, we’ll make sure of that.’ Now, I’m hesitant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were informed by almost every teacher in the department that they were concerned about the department being dissolved,” she told KQED. “They were encouraging students to start looking for other schools to complete their degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> system is facing an 8% funding reduction from the state, and some Bay Area campuses have struggled to maintain enrollment, bringing revenue down further. Cal State East Bay is facing a budget deficit that totaled about $14 million in the fall. And after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">major athletics and degree program cuts\u003c/a> — including to dance and theater arts — were announced at nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State\u003c/a> in January, many in the East Bay program are on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabelle Lorenzo, 20, right, a theater major with a concentration of tech and design, joins other students at California State University East Bay in a march across campus on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a dozen students working toward theater degrees climbed the spiraling stairs to University President Cathy Sandeen’s office, hand-delivering a petition signed by more than 900 CSU East Bay students, faculty and community members to her staff. Chanting “East Bay arts,” they urged Sandeen to continue funding the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school said that as of now, “the theatre and dance program remains intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be speculation on my part to talk about what cuts could be made to account for the budget deficit next year or when we might release more information,” university spokesperson Kimberly Hawkins said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State University East Bay students march across campus in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, the university said it has been able to save about $10 million throughout this budget year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Olmsted, head of the Department of Theatre and Dance, is worried about the small-but-mighty program’s odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted said the program graduates 14 to 20 students a year on four separate degree tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever it’s numbers they’re looking at, we’re never going to look good on that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is losing a lecturer, one of its four faculty members, at the end of the semester, and Olmsted is worried the department as a whole is on a list of under-enrolled programs currently eyed for discontinuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Mannah, 28, center, gathers students in a theater room for a protest against proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department at California State University East Bay, in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Sandeen sent a message to the university community saying that CSU East Bay was preparing to form a new advisory committee to “continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were suspended in the fall, and over the last 18 months, 165 lecturers who taught part-time or up to four classes a semester lost their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theatre and Dance has proposed merging with the Music Department to consolidate resources, according to Olmsted, but he isn’t sure what will happen at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to look good on any spreadsheet ever. Our value comes from other metrics,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted believes that the Theatre and Dance Department provides a path for some students to get their bachelor’s degree who might not otherwise. It also gives students who might not be eligible to study in other performing arts programs a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a super competitive theater and dance program,” he told KQED. “We include everybody in our auditions, in our plays, and we really try to find jobs that are appropriate for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “We open our auditions to everyone — faculty, staff, students in any department. We’ve had all of those people in our shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s accessibility helped George Amaras come back to the university in the fall. Amaras originally enrolled in theater at Cal State East Bay in 2014 but took a break before their senior year to focus on mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, the pandemic happened, so that kind of added on to the break, and I was really trying to find healing before I came back,” they told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033439\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay speak to staff at the Office of the President at CSUEB in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Amaras joined one of the department’s dance troupes open to alums and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to find my ground and see where the campus was currently standing,” they said. “Since then, I started back in school this spring, and I’m here to finish now. I should be walking [at graduation] in the spring of 2026.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras said theater is a way to filter through their emotions and be creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my break, I was trying to just live and struggle with the economy and rent, but I came back because it’s something that I enjoy, and it’s more fulfilling than just a paycheck,” Amaras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras, like most of the students in the department, hopes to continue performing after school — even if it isn’t professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just job training students to work in theater or performing arts,” Olmsted said, adding that the department has alumni working full-time in the arts — from the Bay Area’s theatre circuit to Broadway — but it also produces students who go into all fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU leadership, at East Bay and elsewhere, has said they are prioritizing high-demand and career-focused majors. Arts programs are often the first to go, despite Olmsted’s assertion that the degrees do prepare students for the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay exit the Office of the President at CSUEB in protest of proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We teach students how to work on creative projects together, how to research material, how to present themselves and their ideas,” he said. “All of these really good, soft skills that will help them throughout their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in this limbo period, he doesn’t know what to say to students, whether they are currently enrolled at the school or considering attending in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a number of prospective students that I’ve talked with, and it’s really hard to just say, ‘Come on over here, it’s going to be great,’” he told KQED. “I used to be full-throated — ‘You’ll do well here, we’ll make sure of that.’ Now, I’m hesitant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ -->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more than a century, Congress has given extra money to counties with large tracts of federal land to help pay for schools, roads and other critical services. Now that financial lifeline appears to be dead after Congress didn’t include it in the budget passed this month — a victim of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/356/text\">Secure Rural Schools Act\u003c/a> would have brought in at least $33 million to California counties that have land owned by the federal government, such as the U.S. Forest Service. The money is intended to compensate counties for tax revenue they can’t collect on federally-owned land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This loss (is) nothing short of catastrophic,” Liam Gogan, head of the Trinity County Board of Supervisors, wrote to Congress. “This is not just a funding shortfall; it is an existential crisis. Our schools will suffer irreversible damage, emergency response will be paralyzed, and our economy — already fragile — will be pushed past the point of recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California counties from Imperial to Del Norte use Secure Rural Schools funds for schools and roads, but some money also goes toward emergency services, wildfire safety and other needs. Last year the nationwide total was $253 million, barely a blip in the overall federal budget, but a crucial funding source for rural communities that have limited options for raising revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a nonpartisan issue — we thought it would be a slam-dunk,” said Patricia Gunderson, superintendent of schools for Lassen County. “But it wasn’t a priority for Congress. It’s budget dust, a pebble in the big picture, and it just wasn’t on their radar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101909180 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2025/03/GettyImages-2203640514-1-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall, Secure Rural Schools passed unanimously in the Senate but never received a hearing in the House and was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/01/rural-schools-2/\">not included in the temporary budget\u003c/a> passed in December. Advocates tried again in February, with a new bill they hoped would make it into the most recent budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill wasn’t included and isn’t likely to pass on its own, as Congress seeks to shrink federal spending amid President Donald Trump’s orders to reduce government bureaucracy. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican who co-sponsored the bill, is “pursuing every avenue” to get it passed, his staff said. Many of the counties in LaMalfa’s district voted for Trump, but school officials have said they view Secure Rural Schools as a nonpartisan issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are also holding out hope, however slim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll keep pushing, but the time for Congress to do what’s right for rural schools was yesterday,” said Tara Thomas, government affairs manager for the School Superintendents Association, a nationwide professional advocacy group. “It’s such a miniscule program, but it’s a lifeline for districts that rely on this funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Layoffs and cutbacks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Counties’ funding varies depending on how much U.S. Forest Service acreage they have. Siskiyou County, for example, got $4.3 million in 2023. Trinity got $3.5 million. Los Angeles County, home to the Angeles National Forest, got $1.4 million. Counties typically give half the money to schools and half to public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many school districts, the loss of funding will mean staff layoffs, cuts to after-school programs, fewer field trips, delayed building repairs and other adjustments. On the public works side, road repairs will take longer and residents will have less assistance making their homes safe from wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Trinity County, the cuts mean that the county will have fewer crews to repair its 620 miles of roads — 120 of which are gravel. In the rugged, remote mountains west of Mt. Shasta, this will affect residents’ ability to get to work and school, and emergency crews’ ability to reach many parts of the 3,200-square-mile county, said Panos Kokkas, the county’s transportation director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033040\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033040\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1540\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589.jpg 1540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589-1536x1063.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rural road with debris blocking the road in Trinity County. \u003ccite>(County of Trinity Department of Transportation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the roads are already in bad shape due to storms, mudslides, wildfires and erosion, he said. In the heavily forested region, it’s not uncommon for fallen trees to block roads or for whole sections of road to wash away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People potentially could get stranded, or fire and emergency crews won’t be able to get through,” Kokkas said. “It could be a very unsafe situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In counties that are already beset by poverty and high unemployment, the cuts may have a ripple effect, especially in light of the Trump administration’s other cuts, said Siskiyou County Supervisor Ed Valenzuela. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/travel/trump-cuts-national-parks-summer-travel.html\">Reductions at the U.S. Forest Service,\u003c/a> for example, will mean fewer seasonal employees patronizing local businesses and fewer people to maintain Forest Service amenities — a major tourist draw in the summer, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siskiyou and other rural counties have limited options for raising the money elsewhere. Rural school districts are rarely able to pass bonds because voters tend to be more fiscally conservative, retired or low-income. Bonds that do pass don’t raise much money because property values are lower overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like we have the money sitting there in another pot,” Valenzuela said. “When we talk about making cuts … there’s nowhere to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alpine County, where 96% of the land is owned by the state and federal government and there’s only 1,100 residents, Secure Rural Schools provides about 20% of the road repair budget and a significant portion of the school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The longer you let the roads go, the worse they get,” said Nichole Williamson, county administrative officer. “Our roads already aren’t in the best condition. We always worry about losing Secure Rural Schools, but still, I was surprised it didn’t pass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Secure Rural Schools payments to counties will be in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/03/rural-counties/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California counties from Imperial to Del Norte use Secure Rural Schools funds for schools and roads, but some money also goes toward emergency services, wildfire safety and other needs. Last year the nationwide total was $253 million, barely a blip in the overall federal budget, but a crucial funding source for rural communities that have limited options for raising revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a nonpartisan issue — we thought it would be a slam-dunk,” said Patricia Gunderson, superintendent of schools for Lassen County. “But it wasn’t a priority for Congress. It’s budget dust, a pebble in the big picture, and it just wasn’t on their radar.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the fall, Secure Rural Schools passed unanimously in the Senate but never received a hearing in the House and was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/01/rural-schools-2/\">not included in the temporary budget\u003c/a> passed in December. Advocates tried again in February, with a new bill they hoped would make it into the most recent budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the bill wasn’t included and isn’t likely to pass on its own, as Congress seeks to shrink federal spending amid President Donald Trump’s orders to reduce government bureaucracy. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican who co-sponsored the bill, is “pursuing every avenue” to get it passed, his staff said. Many of the counties in LaMalfa’s district voted for Trump, but school officials have said they view Secure Rural Schools as a nonpartisan issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates are also holding out hope, however slim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll keep pushing, but the time for Congress to do what’s right for rural schools was yesterday,” said Tara Thomas, government affairs manager for the School Superintendents Association, a nationwide professional advocacy group. “It’s such a miniscule program, but it’s a lifeline for districts that rely on this funding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Layoffs and cutbacks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Counties’ funding varies depending on how much U.S. Forest Service acreage they have. Siskiyou County, for example, got $4.3 million in 2023. Trinity got $3.5 million. Los Angeles County, home to the Angeles National Forest, got $1.4 million. Counties typically give half the money to schools and half to public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many school districts, the loss of funding will mean staff layoffs, cuts to after-school programs, fewer field trips, delayed building repairs and other adjustments. On the public works side, road repairs will take longer and residents will have less assistance making their homes safe from wildfires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Trinity County, the cuts mean that the county will have fewer crews to repair its 620 miles of roads — 120 of which are gravel. In the rugged, remote mountains west of Mt. Shasta, this will affect residents’ ability to get to work and school, and emergency crews’ ability to reach many parts of the 3,200-square-mile county, said Panos Kokkas, the county’s transportation director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033040\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033040\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1540\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589.jpg 1540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589-800x554.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589-1020x706.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/032425-Trinity-County-Rural-Road-CM-copy-e1742943734589-1536x1063.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1540px) 100vw, 1540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rural road with debris blocking the road in Trinity County. \u003ccite>(County of Trinity Department of Transportation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the roads are already in bad shape due to storms, mudslides, wildfires and erosion, he said. In the heavily forested region, it’s not uncommon for fallen trees to block roads or for whole sections of road to wash away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People potentially could get stranded, or fire and emergency crews won’t be able to get through,” Kokkas said. “It could be a very unsafe situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In counties that are already beset by poverty and high unemployment, the cuts may have a ripple effect, especially in light of the Trump administration’s other cuts, said Siskiyou County Supervisor Ed Valenzuela. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/travel/trump-cuts-national-parks-summer-travel.html\">Reductions at the U.S. Forest Service,\u003c/a> for example, will mean fewer seasonal employees patronizing local businesses and fewer people to maintain Forest Service amenities — a major tourist draw in the summer, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siskiyou and other rural counties have limited options for raising the money elsewhere. Rural school districts are rarely able to pass bonds because voters tend to be more fiscally conservative, retired or low-income. Bonds that do pass don’t raise much money because property values are lower overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like we have the money sitting there in another pot,” Valenzuela said. “When we talk about making cuts … there’s nowhere to cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alpine County, where 96% of the land is owned by the state and federal government and there’s only 1,100 residents, Secure Rural Schools provides about 20% of the road repair budget and a significant portion of the school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The longer you let the roads go, the worse they get,” said Nichole Williamson, county administrative officer. “Our roads already aren’t in the best condition. We always worry about losing Secure Rural Schools, but still, I was surprised it didn’t pass.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Secure Rural Schools payments to counties will be in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2025/03/rural-counties/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters. \u003c/em>\u003cem>Lea esta historia en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2025/03/universidades-estudiantes-migrantes-recursos-autoridades-migratorias/\">Español.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing immigration enforcement on or near college campuses during President Donald Trump’s second term, students across the state have been demanding university officials offer more protections. Students have been protesting against Trump’s pledge of mass deportations at campuses such as UC Berkeley and Sacramento State. Recently, about 300 students at Cal State Northridge gathered on their university’s lawn with signs, flags and megaphones in hand. They chanted “Jobs and education, not mass deportation” and “Say it loud, say it clear, ICE is not welcome here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cal State Northridge, where 71% of students are the first in their family to go to college and 80% are students of color, many protestors said they have peers or family members who could be affected by increased immigration enforcement. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/undocumented-student-affordability-report\">100,000 college students\u003c/a> live in California without permanent legal status, and 3.3 million Californians live in mixed-status households, according to data from Equity Research Institute, a USC research group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01/21/statement-dhs-spokesperson-directives-expanding-law-enforcement-and-ending-abuse\">scrapped policies\u003c/a> dating back to 2011 that limited immigration agents from arresting people at churches, schools and other areas designated as “sensitive locations.” Despite the change, there have been few, if any, reports of immigration arrests on or near California college campuses — but for students like Karisma Ramos Ayala, who grew up in a mixed-status household, the fear and anger remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and staff protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies in front of the University Library at Cal State Northridge on Feb. 19, 2025. The demonstrators, led by the group CSUN Students Organizing Against Repression, called on university administration to declare the university a ‘sanctuary campus.’ \u003ccite>(Delilah Brumer/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think ICE should be anywhere near schools or colleges or students,” said Ramos Ayala, an undergraduate creative writing major at Cal State Northridge. “It’s really sad and scary at the same time. People are here for education, they’re here for something good, and we can’t let that be taken away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of California’s colleges and universities provide resources for immigrant students and students from mixed-status families, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas\">“Know Your Rights” cards\u003c/a>, on-campus \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2025/02/dream-centers-legal-services/\">Dream resource centers\u003c/a> and free immigration legal services through partner nonprofits. However, public higher education institutions are limited by federal laws from attempting to prevent immigration enforcement agents from coming onto or near public parts of campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The universities couldn’t physically try to stop immigration enforcement from coming on the campuses, but there’s a lot that can be done through legal means and just providing assistance to students that could be important in these times,” said Kevin R. Johnson, an immigration law professor and the former dean of the UC Davis School of Law. “Tensions are high right now, and we’ll have to wait and see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>State and campuses offer guidance\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/pdfs/immigration/higher-education-guidance.pdf\">issued guidance\u003c/a> to California’s public colleges and universities, outlining that immigration enforcement agents are able to enter campus areas that are generally open to the public, such as central quads. For private areas, such as campus housing, immigration enforcement officers do not have a right to enter without a judicial warrant, due to the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.[aside postID=news_12025647 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-1243312873-1020x680.jpg']Policies for where immigration enforcement officers can and cannot enter become murkier when it comes to other campus areas, such as classrooms, student services centers and labs. According to Bonta’s directives, immigration enforcement officers do not have the right to enter campus locations that are “designated for students and staff only.” This varies significantly from campus to campus, because while some colleges and universities designate certain buildings as restricted by posting signage or requiring student IDs, others do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the state’s three public higher education systems have published guidance on how to respond to immigration enforcement, emphasizing that California campus police departments are prohibited \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_201720180sb54\">by a 2017 state law \u003c/a>from “generally providing personal information … about an individual for immigration enforcement purposes, including, but not limited to, the individual’s home address or work address, unless that information is available to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Community Colleges system, which serves the largest share of students in California who lack permanent legal status, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/docs/legal-advisory/2025-02-27advisory-update-sanctuary-jurisdiction-a11y.pdf?la=en&hash=B2F5B1F5500FFFA9ED94B23E56068828A874CA0D\">issued a directive (PDF) \u003c/a>to its 116 colleges reminding administrators of their obligations “to prevent students, staff, and faculty from participating in federal immigration enforcement efforts unless required by state or federal law.” The California State University and University of California systems have communicated similar information to administrators, faculty and staff, and all three systems offer web pages with system-specific immigration information and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta addresses the media during a press conference at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many other California colleges and universities, Cal Poly Humboldt outlines \u003ca href=\"https://www.humboldt.edu/immigration#:~:text=Current%20policy%20prevents%20ICE%20agents,are%20available%20to%20assist%20you.\">on its website \u003c/a>that anyone who sees an immigration enforcement officer on campus should immediately call the chief human resources officer or campus police, and should not “voluntarily grant access” to any non-public places, if the officer does not have a judicial warrant. Similarly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/frequently-asked-questions-university-employees-about-possible-federal-immigration-enforcement\">the UC system advises\u003c/a> any university employee who is asked by an immigration enforcement officer to grant access to campus housing to “ask the officer for documentation of their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card; ask for a copy of any warrant or subpoena presented, inform the officer that you are not obstructing their process but need to consult with Campus Counsel for assistance, and contact Campus Counsel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private university campuses are generally not considered open to the public, meaning immigration enforcement officers would need a judicial warrant to enter. At the University of Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://generalcounsel.usc.edu/services/subpoenas-summons-and-complaints-2/subpoena/\">a five-step protocol \u003c/a>for staff who are presented with a warrant includes asking for an officer’s credentials and contact information, referring the officer to the university’s office of the general counsel and not attempting to physically block the officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Trump administration threw out the “sensitive locations” policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01/21/statement-dhs-spokesperson-directives-expanding-law-enforcement-and-ending-abuse\">a statement\u003c/a> from the Department of Homeland Security said the change was “to empower law enforcement to protect Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold signs while participating in an anti-deportation protest at Sacramento State University on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest,” the statement said. “The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key to California institutions’ strategies for supporting immigrant and mixed-status students are Dream resource centers, which are on-campus spaces that offer assistance with financial aid forms, mental health support, academic resources and referrals to nonprofit immigration law firms. A 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1645\">state law \u003c/a>first encouraged the designation of Dream center liaisons, and, in the more than five years since, the state has provided $52.2 million to fund the centers and personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alouette Cervantes-Salazar, the Dream Resource Center coordinator at East Los Angeles College, has been hosting check-in chats in the months since the 2024 presidential election, to outline students’ rights and hear their concerns. The chats include information from lawyers at the Central American Resource Center, a nonprofit immigration service provider which partners with 20 colleges and universities across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We focus on what we can do, and what is in our control, and continuing to have a safe place for all students, regardless of their immigration status,” Cervantes-Salazar said. Her center has served students from Costa Rica, England, Nigeria, Mexico, Myanmar and more than 20 other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032364\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_FG26318-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_FG26318-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_FG26318-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_FG26318-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_FG26318-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_FG26318-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A speaker fires up attendees during an anti-deportation protest at Sacramento State University on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Advocates push for further protections\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Campus protesters have not only called on Trump to change course on immigration, but also for their universities to do more to support students. At Cal State Northridge, protesters urged university officials to declare the school a “sanctuary campus” and bar any immigration enforcement officers from entering campus. At Sacramento State, students read poems and shared their families’ immigration stories, calling for the campus to unite behind immigrant students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State system spokesperson Amy Bentley-Smith wrote in a statement to CalMatters that the system’s 23 campuses are “deeply committed to ensuring academic opportunities are available to all students, regardless of immigration status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Core to the CSU mission is providing a space where all students feel welcomed and safe as they pursue their education,” the statement said. “The CSU will do everything we can to support our undocumented community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aditi Hariharan, the president of the UC Student Association and an undergraduate at UC Davis, wants the UC system to dedicate more funding for immigration resources. The organization is also pushing California campuses to notify their communities immediately, through alert systems, if immigration enforcement officials are spotted nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hariharan criticized the UC system for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/01/undocumented-students-2/\">rejecting a student-led proposal\u003c/a> last year to allow students who lack permanent legal status to work on-campus jobs. Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar proposal, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/undocumented-students-work/\">citing potential liability\u003c/a> for the state if it were to implement the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that the fears present on campus currently extrapolate to the whole campus community, and it’s vital for UC to really prove to its undocumented students that it’s in support of them, or else it’s really difficult to cultivate a safe campus environment,” Hariharan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC system statement emphasized \u003ca href=\"https://undoc.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">the resources\u003c/a> they offer to immigrant students, which include help with financial aid forms, mental health counseling and legal advising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize there is uncertainty among many in the University of California community in light of actions from the federal administration,” the statement said. “The University continues to closely monitor and assess the potential impacts to our communities. We proudly welcome students from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, regardless of immigration status.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some conservative student groups have mobilized on campuses and on social media to back the Trump administration’s stance that colleges should not be sanctuary locations, including at Cal State Long Beach, where a handful of demonstrators recently held signs that read “We support mass deportations.” As the \u003ca href=\"https://lbcurrent.com/news/2025/02/25/students-debate-pro-mass-deportation-content-creators/\">student newspaper The Long Beach Current \u003c/a>reported, protesters and counter-protesters debated the role of immigration enforcement and the safety of students on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chicano studies professor Rosa Rivera Furumoto spoke at the Cal State Northridge protest to support immigrants, at the invitation of the student organizers. She said she is hopeful as she sees “a youth movement” against Trump’s immigration enforcement policies gain traction across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a situation that is really scary, and we need to rise up,” Rivera Furumoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Delilah Brumer is a fellow with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/03/california-colleges-immigration-enforcement/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters. \u003c/em>\u003cem>Lea esta historia en \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/calmatters-en-espanol/2025/03/universidades-estudiantes-migrantes-recursos-autoridades-migratorias/\">Español.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing immigration enforcement on or near college campuses during President Donald Trump’s second term, students across the state have been demanding university officials offer more protections. Students have been protesting against Trump’s pledge of mass deportations at campuses such as UC Berkeley and Sacramento State. Recently, about 300 students at Cal State Northridge gathered on their university’s lawn with signs, flags and megaphones in hand. They chanted “Jobs and education, not mass deportation” and “Say it loud, say it clear, ICE is not welcome here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Cal State Northridge, where 71% of students are the first in their family to go to college and 80% are students of color, many protestors said they have peers or family members who could be affected by increased immigration enforcement. An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.csac.ca.gov/undocumented-student-affordability-report\">100,000 college students\u003c/a> live in California without permanent legal status, and 3.3 million Californians live in mixed-status households, according to data from Equity Research Institute, a USC research group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01/21/statement-dhs-spokesperson-directives-expanding-law-enforcement-and-ending-abuse\">scrapped policies\u003c/a> dating back to 2011 that limited immigration agents from arresting people at churches, schools and other areas designated as “sensitive locations.” Despite the change, there have been few, if any, reports of immigration arrests on or near California college campuses — but for students like Karisma Ramos Ayala, who grew up in a mixed-status household, the fear and anger remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032360\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/031725-CalState-Northridge-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and staff protest President Donald Trump’s immigration policies in front of the University Library at Cal State Northridge on Feb. 19, 2025. The demonstrators, led by the group CSUN Students Organizing Against Repression, called on university administration to declare the university a ‘sanctuary campus.’ \u003ccite>(Delilah Brumer/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think ICE should be anywhere near schools or colleges or students,” said Ramos Ayala, an undergraduate creative writing major at Cal State Northridge. “It’s really sad and scary at the same time. People are here for education, they’re here for something good, and we can’t let that be taken away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of California’s colleges and universities provide resources for immigrant students and students from mixed-status families, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas\">“Know Your Rights” cards\u003c/a>, on-campus \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/college-beat/2025/02/dream-centers-legal-services/\">Dream resource centers\u003c/a> and free immigration legal services through partner nonprofits. However, public higher education institutions are limited by federal laws from attempting to prevent immigration enforcement agents from coming onto or near public parts of campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Policies for where immigration enforcement officers can and cannot enter become murkier when it comes to other campus areas, such as classrooms, student services centers and labs. According to Bonta’s directives, immigration enforcement officers do not have the right to enter campus locations that are “designated for students and staff only.” This varies significantly from campus to campus, because while some colleges and universities designate certain buildings as restricted by posting signage or requiring student IDs, others do not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each of the state’s three public higher education systems have published guidance on how to respond to immigration enforcement, emphasizing that California campus police departments are prohibited \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_201720180sb54\">by a 2017 state law \u003c/a>from “generally providing personal information … about an individual for immigration enforcement purposes, including, but not limited to, the individual’s home address or work address, unless that information is available to the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Community Colleges system, which serves the largest share of students in California who lack permanent legal status, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/-/media/CCCCO-Website/docs/legal-advisory/2025-02-27advisory-update-sanctuary-jurisdiction-a11y.pdf?la=en&hash=B2F5B1F5500FFFA9ED94B23E56068828A874CA0D\">issued a directive (PDF) \u003c/a>to its 116 colleges reminding administrators of their obligations “to prevent students, staff, and faculty from participating in federal immigration enforcement efforts unless required by state or federal law.” The California State University and University of California systems have communicated similar information to administrators, faculty and staff, and all three systems offer web pages with system-specific immigration information and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032361\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/020425-Rob-Bonta-Presser-FG-CM-04-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Attorney General Rob Bonta addresses the media during a press conference at the California Department of Justice in Sacramento on Feb. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many other California colleges and universities, Cal Poly Humboldt outlines \u003ca href=\"https://www.humboldt.edu/immigration#:~:text=Current%20policy%20prevents%20ICE%20agents,are%20available%20to%20assist%20you.\">on its website \u003c/a>that anyone who sees an immigration enforcement officer on campus should immediately call the chief human resources officer or campus police, and should not “voluntarily grant access” to any non-public places, if the officer does not have a judicial warrant. Similarly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/frequently-asked-questions-university-employees-about-possible-federal-immigration-enforcement\">the UC system advises\u003c/a> any university employee who is asked by an immigration enforcement officer to grant access to campus housing to “ask the officer for documentation of their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card; ask for a copy of any warrant or subpoena presented, inform the officer that you are not obstructing their process but need to consult with Campus Counsel for assistance, and contact Campus Counsel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Private university campuses are generally not considered open to the public, meaning immigration enforcement officers would need a judicial warrant to enter. At the University of Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://generalcounsel.usc.edu/services/subpoenas-summons-and-complaints-2/subpoena/\">a five-step protocol \u003c/a>for staff who are presented with a warrant includes asking for an officer’s credentials and contact information, referring the officer to the university’s office of the general counsel and not attempting to physically block the officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Trump administration threw out the “sensitive locations” policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01/21/statement-dhs-spokesperson-directives-expanding-law-enforcement-and-ending-abuse\">a statement\u003c/a> from the Department of Homeland Security said the change was “to empower law enforcement to protect Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Sac_state_protest_2025_02_11_FG_S1A5984-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students hold signs while participating in an anti-deportation protest at Sacramento State University on Feb. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest,” the statement said. “The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Key to California institutions’ strategies for supporting immigrant and mixed-status students are Dream resource centers, which are on-campus spaces that offer assistance with financial aid forms, mental health support, academic resources and referrals to nonprofit immigration law firms. A 2019 \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1645\">state law \u003c/a>first encouraged the designation of Dream center liaisons, and, in the more than five years since, the state has provided $52.2 million to fund the centers and personnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alouette Cervantes-Salazar, the Dream Resource Center coordinator at East Los Angeles College, has been hosting check-in chats in the months since the 2024 presidential election, to outline students’ rights and hear their concerns. The chats include information from lawyers at the Central American Resource Center, a nonprofit immigration service provider which partners with 20 colleges and universities across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We focus on what we can do, and what is in our control, and continuing to have a safe place for all students, regardless of their immigration status,” Cervantes-Salazar said. 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She said she is hopeful as she sees “a youth movement” against Trump’s immigration enforcement policies gain traction across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re in a situation that is really scary, and we need to rise up,” Rivera Furumoto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Delilah Brumer is a fellow with the College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. CalMatters higher education coverage is supported by a grant from the College Futures Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2025/03/california-colleges-immigration-enforcement/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Drake said higher education is in a “time of great uncertainty” and that the freeze would affect nearly every corner of the vast university system — including its top ranks. Drake said he and chancellors were preparing for “significant financial challenges ahead.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drake also said all UC institutions should implement “cost-saving measures,” such as delaying maintenance and reducing business travel – and directed them to “prepare financial strategies and workforce management plans” to address potential shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12030313 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250307-BERKELEY-SCIENCE-PROTEST-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg']But Perlman said UC leaders aren’t taking responsibility for the questionable decisions they’ve been making for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand that what’s happening at the federal level is serious,” she said. “But what’s been happening at the university for decades is a longstanding crisis of priorities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And despite UC claiming to be in a particularly precarious financial position, Perlman argued that the system continues to be profitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They’ve had record student enrollment. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of faculty and students flooded UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Wednesday to defend academic freedom and free speech amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">the Trump administration’s\u003c/a> escalating threats to withhold funding from the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both UC Berkeley and UCLA are among the 10 universities under investigation by the Federal Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism after the Justice Department alleged that the schools failed to protect Jewish students during the widespread pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses last spring. UC Berkeley is also the subject of another investigation from the Department of Education over alleged “race-exclusionary practices” in its graduate programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032122\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032122\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, students, and supporters gather in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration said both of these may be grounds to withhold federal funding from the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Academic freedom is under assault,” African American studies professor Ula Taylor told the crowd at Sproul. “When we accepted the honor to teach and conduct research at this public university, we did so because of a long commitment to academic freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032123\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032123\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-17-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-17-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-17-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-17-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-17-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-17-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-17-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, students, and supporters gather in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some speakers were scheduled to teach at the same time as the rally. Lecturer Matthew Parker’s solution was to bring his class to Sproul Plaza, where he spoke about the importance of maintaining an open dialogue — especially those with whom he “fruitfully disagrees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I love that here is where I first danced with a wheelchair-bound student who also taught me disability law,” Berkeley Law professor Claudia Polsky said. “I love that UC Berkeley science helped lead to the COVID vaccine, saving over 14 million lives. And best of all, I love that here, status cannot be bought: The only route to a personal parking space is to win a Nobel prize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley professors also spoke about their rising concern of political deportations after the detention of Columbia University graduate \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031867/israels-renewed-assault-gaza-draws-hundreds-streets-san-francisco\">Mahmoud Khalil\u003c/a> last week. Amid chants to free Khalil, Polsky urged faculty to protect those who are vulnerable to similar arrests for the purpose of deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, let us learn the lesson of good instincts that were deployed too late. Our time is right now,” she said. “Trump’s attacks on Columbia University are just the beginning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032120\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032120\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-19-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-19-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-19-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-19-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-19-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-19-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-19-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Juana Maria Rodriguez, professor of ethnic studies, speaks at the rally in Sproul Plaza at the UC Berkeley on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other professors also compared Khalil’s detention to the internment of Japanese Americans and the persecution of European Jews at the start of the Holocaust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As faculty spoke at the rally, UC President Michael Drake was leading the UC Regents meeting in Los Angeles, where he announced a systemwide hiring freeze in anticipation of both state and federal funding cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032117\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032117\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-09-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-09-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-09-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-09-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-09-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-09-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250319-UCBerkeleyProtest-09-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty, students, and supporters gather in Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley on March 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drake called the funding uncertainties and resulting hiring freeze a “lose-lose proposition” for the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other universities, such as Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Washington, announced freezes this week, citing similar uncertainties about federal funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faculty vowed to return to Sproul on April 8 as part of a national labor action to protest cuts to education and research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Update, 11 a.m. March 31: \u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003cem>As of March 26, the income-driven repayment plans Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5343770/trump-student-loan-forgiveness\">now open to enrollment again\u003c/a>. Borrowers can also now \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/loan-consolidation/\">apply for loan consolidation online\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 11, President Donald Trump’s administration\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030839/us-education-department-says-it-is-cutting-nearly-half-of-all-staff\"> announced plans to \u003c/a>cut half of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030839/us-education-department-says-it-is-cutting-nearly-half-of-all-staff\">Department of Education’s workforce\u003c/a> starting Friday, fulfilling parts of a long-held\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909180/what-trumps-threatened-education-cuts-mean-for-students-schools\"> conservative mission\u003c/a> to\u003ca href=\"https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/how-project-2025-would-devastate-public-education\"> weaken the agency\u003c/a>. More than 1,300 positions will be eliminated, according to the announcement, and around 600 more employees accepted voluntary resignations or retired over the last two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education administers student loans and aid programs and many of the layoffs occurred within \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325854/trump-education-department-layoffs-civil-rights-student-loans\">the Federal Student Aid\u003c/a> department. One in four adults under 40 in the United States \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/18/facts-about-student-loans/\">has student loan debt,\u003c/a> and Americans owed about $1.6 trillion in student loans as of June 2024, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In\u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-initiates-reduction-force\"> a statement\u003c/a>, the Department of Education said it would “continue to deliver on all statutory programs that fall under the agency’s purview,” including student loans and \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/grants/pell\">Pell Grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump straight to: I have student loans. Should I be backing up my payment records?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Beth Maglione, the interim president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, called the idea that services will not be interrupted “at best, naive and, at worst, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/35826/Trump_s_Plan_to_Dismantle_the_Department_of_Education_Is_Officially_Underway\">deliberately misleading\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Inside Higher Ed\u003c/em>, many of the dismissed employees within the Federal Student Aid department assisted with the technical administration of student loans, including working on \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/03/13/how-education-department-layoffs-could-affect-higher\">functionalities for \u003c/a>the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which was hit hard during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">troubled revamp\u003c/a> last year. The planned cuts also include staffers who answered FAFSA questions for students and parents and who handle disputes between \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2025/03/12/yes-your-student-loans-will-be-impacted-by-the-mass-department-of-education-layoffs/\">borrowers and loan services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the big themes that I noticed is that a lot of the helpers are gone,” said Betsy Mayotte, the founder of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://freestudentloanadvice.org/\">Institute of Student Loan Advisors\u003c/a>. “Borrowers need more help, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California quickly joined other states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031176/california-other-states-gear-up-fight-department-educations-dismantling\">in a lawsuit\u003c/a> to fight the cuts, but the Department of Education’s precarious situation is now coupled with ongoing uncertainty around repayment plans. Eight million student loan borrowers were enrolled in former President Joe Biden’s SAVE income-driven repayment plan in hopes of cheaper payments and a shorter \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/save-plan-permanently-struck-down-student-loan-borrowers-lose-relief-2025-1\">loan repayment timeline\u003c/a>, but the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the plan in February in a decision that also prevented borrowers from enrolling in other \u003ca href=\"https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/court-decision-blocks-save-plan-and-idr-access/\">income-driven repayment plans\u003c/a> for their student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this has left the 42.7 million Americans who have \u003ca href=\"https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics\">federal loan debt\u003c/a> with little clarity on what will happen to their current debt, said Adam S. Minsky, a\u003ca href=\"https://minsky-law.com/\"> lawyer specializing\u003c/a> in student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult right now for borrowers to be able to make informed decisions because there is so much uncertainty and volatility right now,” Minsky said. “We don’t know what the landscape is going to look like in a month or six months or a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you have student loans, what \u003cem>do \u003c/em>we know right now? KQED spoke to Minsky and Mayotte about what borrowers should know in the immediate aftermath of the Department of Education cuts and what practical actions they can take right now amid so much confusion. You can also regularly check \u003ca href=\"http://studentaid.gov\">studentaid.gov\u003c/a> for the latest official updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>At a glance: What different types of student loan borrowers should know \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re a borrower, make sure you know what kind of \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven\">income-driven repayment plan\u003c/a> you’re enrolled in for your student loan debt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Repayment Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Old Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Unless you are on SAVE, you should be making your payments, Mayotte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Education and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5250031/federal-student-loan-borrowers-await-court-decision-on-repayment-plan\">SAVE court orders\u003c/a> mean that borrowers could be at the mercy of potential changes to their income-driven payment plans, said Minsky. Some borrowers may see their monthly payments increase. Other borrowers may no longer qualify for certain types of forgiveness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that borrowers could see some very tangible, possibly negative changes as a result of what’s going on right now with student loans,” Minsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are currently unable to afford your payments, Mayotte said you can ask your servicer \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/lower-payments/get-temporary-relief/forbearance\">for a “forbearance\u003c/a>” — which is the chance to pause payments temporarily. Keep in mind that this is a move you can only make a limited number of times, and interest does accrue during this period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031854\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside of the offices of the US Department of Education in Washington, DC on March 13, 2025 to protest against mass layoffs and budget cuts at the agency, initiated by the Trump administration and DOGE. \u003ccite>(Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If you are on the SAVE plan, look for alternatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The SAVE program was meant to serve as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/despite-collapse-of-his-forgiveness-plan-millions-had-student-loans-canceled-under-biden\">Biden’s victory lap\u003c/a> in fulfilling a campaign promise. However, the courts have now more or less sunk SAVE, said Mayotte,\u003ca href=\"https://www.studentloanplanner.com/doge-access-save-injunction/\"> forcing millions of Americans\u003c/a> into\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/lower-payments/get-temporary-relief/forbearance\"> forbearance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People enrolled in SAVE\u003ca href=\"https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/court-decision-blocks-save-plan-and-idr-access/\"> do not need to make payments\u003c/a> and interest does not apply. They will need to wait to see when the other income-driven payment programs open enrollment in order to switch to those plans. However, \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service/public-service-loan-forgiveness-buyback\">in most cases\u003c/a>, time in this forbearance does not count toward other payment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It “might be a good idea” for borrowers to “start exploring what your alternative repayment plan options are going to look like” so they are not unprepared for when the change comes, Minsky added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If you are on ICR or PAYE, you may run into restrictions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some of the other repayment plans like\u003ca href=\"https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/court-decision-blocks-save-plan-and-idr-access/\"> Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Income Contingent Repayment (ICR)\u003c/a> also got caught up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/35688/Court_Ruling_Affirms_Blocking_of_SAVE_Plan_While_Next_Steps_for_the_Program_Remain_Uncertain\">SAVE’s legal challenges\u003c/a> — and after the February court ruling, the Department of Education is now barring people from new enrollment or recertifying their income. You can still enroll in the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/extended\">\u003cem>non-\u003c/em>income-driven plans\u003c/a> for the chance of having a lower monthly payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are already enrolled in these plans, you can and should still make your payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you cannot recertify your income,\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven\"> you will not be kicked off\u003c/a> your PAYE or ICR plan. There is a chance that the Department of Education will extend the deadline for recertifying, but that has not been announced yet, said Mayotte. According to the federal student aid website, your required monthly payment amount “will be the amount you would pay under a\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/standard\"> Standard Repayment Plan with a 10-year repayment period\u003c/a>, based on the loan amount you owed when you initially entered the income-driven repayment plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you completed your required number of months under PAYE, you would be placed in a forbearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in general, it is unknown when recertification of income or new enrollment for these plans may resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping that whatever this pause is, it’s temporary and that processing will resume soon,” Minsky said. “It’s still fairly new, so we’ll have to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayotte predicts that these repayment programs — except for SAVE — “are going to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that it “can be really difficult” not to panic, Mayotte urged borrowers not to “make any rash decisions based on something that happened today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen the chaos that we’re experiencing today, but I do think that in the end, a lot of this is going to shake out,” she said. “Just sort of take a deep breath, keep yourself educated [on the latest updates] and wait and see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Education, “payments on PAYE, SAVE, and ICR are counted toward \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/save-court-actions\">IBR Plan forgiveness\u003c/a> if the borrower enrolls in IBR.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>You can’t submit online applications for consolidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Consolidation allows you to combine your different loan types into one large single loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, because of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/35688/Court_Ruling_Affirms_Blocking_of_SAVE_Plan_While_Next_Steps_for_the_Program_Remain_Uncertain\">SAVE court block\u003c/a>, you are currently unable to apply for this online. You can file a \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/save-court-actions\">paper application and mail it\u003c/a> to loan servicer Aidvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avoid online misinformation and get your information straight from the source itself, from sites like \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/\">studentaid.gov\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/student-loans/\">Department of Financial Innovation and Protection (DFPI)\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Carol Yepes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Download copies of your Public Service Loan Forgiveness progress \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than\u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/policywatch/executive-order-on-restoring-public-service-loan-forgiveness/#:~:text=Impact%3A%20More%20than%202%20million,organizations%20qualify%20for%20the%20program.\"> two million Americans\u003c/a> qualify for the\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service\"> Public Service Loan Forgiveness \u003c/a>(PSLF) program, which wipes out your debt when you work for a nonprofit and make 120 monthly payments while at a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minsky advised that if you are in the program, take screenshots of your progress by heading to “Track Your PSLF Progress” on your online dashboard and certify your employment if you haven’t in a while. Borrowers on the PSLF program need to enroll their employer on the website so their payments can be counted successfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump issued an executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/public-service-student-loan-forgiveness-pslf-not-changing-today-trump-2025-3\">to limit the program\u003c/a> to exclude employees working for\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-public-service-loan-forgiveness/\"> certain nonprofits\u003c/a>, like organizations the order deems to be “supporting terrorism” and offering “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023784/after-trumps-order-on-two-genders-trans-rights-groups-taking-action\">so-called transgender sanctuary\u003c/a>.” However, those changes are not happening any time soon, according to Federal Student Aid, which is part of the Department of Education. “The PSLF Program is not changing today, and borrowers do not need to take any action,” the agency wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FAFSA/status/1899103979549667522\"> social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Several advocacy groups for student loan borrowers have said that the proposed changes would likely be illegal or unconstitutional,” Minsky said. “And so depending on when they get implemented and what the final regulations look like, there might be legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Programs that were created by Congress typically would require Congress to fundamentally change or repeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>How can student loan borrowers back up their records?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Anytime you have a debt, it never hurts to keep good records on that debt,” said Mayotte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2025/02/05/student-loan-borrowers-do-these-7-things-as-the-department-of-education-faces-uncertain-future/\">article for \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Minsky detailed several ways borrowers should save their loan information in case of any changes the federal government may make, like taking down agency websites. (Several digital archivist groups, like the Wayback Machine, have already been attempting to\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/culture/400705/internet-purge-offline-government-website-archive-trump\"> save records\u003c/a> of these shuttered websites, and Minsky suggested you may \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2025/02/05/student-loan-borrowers-do-these-7-things-as-the-department-of-education-faces-uncertain-future/\">consider taking screenshots\u003c/a> of the details of your plan on the Department of Education website.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minsky advises you to consider:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taking screenshots of your student loan dashboard on studentaid.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Include any progress you may have made on income-driven repayment plans.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Downloading your federal student loan data \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Log into your studentaid.org account on your computer, which may make this process easier than navigating on mobile. Click on “View Details” on your dash and then select “My Aid.” There should be a “Download My Aid Data” in the top right corner. This will result in a raw file downloaded to your computer.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Downloading your student loan record from your loan servicers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use studentaid.org to find out if your loan servicer is either MOHELA, EdFinancial, Aidvantage or Nelnet. You can then check your account directly with these services and download your loan data to complement the data you downloaded straight from studentaid.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How to add extra security to your student aid account\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In late February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business/money-report/federal-judge-blocks-musks-doge-from-access-to-student-loan-borrowers-personal-data/3639469/?os=v%5B0%5D&ref=app\">a judge blocked efforts\u003c/a> by billionaire Elon Musk and staffers at the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-congress-4e0c025629e8a0c758d13dc916ab4f43\">DOGE)\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-congress-4e0c025629e8a0c758d13dc916ab4f43\">gain access\u003c/a> to student loan data. This came after labor unions like the American Federation of Teachers sued agencies for allowing Musk to have access to the data in the first place, stating\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/education-department-trump-doge-8c5bba3883b3d924b28114a4f291bec4\"> concerns about\u003c/a> the privacy of millions of borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Minsky noted there has been “\u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/WMXai#selection-887.135-887.299\">no clear indication\u003c/a>” of widespread danger to borrower accounts, he wrote that it could be helpful for Americans to update the passwords on their studentaid.gov account and enable two-factor authentication (also known as 2FA), which will send a code to your phone or email that you would then use to access your dashboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How to recognize misinformation about student loans right now \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayotte stressed that “wrong” and “damaging” rumors about student loans have spread far and wide on TikTok and Facebook. “So be wary where you’re getting your student loan information,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayotte said posts she’s already debunked from other borrowers include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>False: Current events may mean your loans could be wiped out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, some hopeful borrowers posted — perhaps in an ironic vein — that if the Department of Education is gone, so are student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Minsky said even with cuts at the agency, “it doesn’t fundamentally change the nature of the debt that folks owe. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have to repay their loans. It doesn’t mean that loans disappear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>False: Your loans could change — or be reduced — by being moved into another part of the federal government.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if a person’s student loan portfolio \u003cem>was \u003c/em>moved out of the Department of Education and into another office like \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7265794/what-will-happen-to-student-loans-if-department-of-education-closes/\">the Treasury\u003c/a>, as Trump has proposed, “it would just mean that a different agency was performing the oversight,” said Mayotte. “Terms and conditions of the loans aren’t going to change, the servicers aren’t going to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>False: Student loans can be forgiven because of Musk getting access to data \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/24/federal-judge-blocks-musks-doge-access-to-student-loan-borrowers-data.html\">temporary restraining order\u003c/a> that stopped Musk’s DOGE staffers from accessing student loan data due to privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even if Musk and his affiliates were found to have isolated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), students would not be able to have their loans forgiven despite what circulating social media posts may claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayotte said this has not historically ever been a way to \u003ca href=\"https://www.studentloanplanner.com/doge-access-save-injunction/\">rectify a FERPA violation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Where can I find information and guidance about my student loans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best information comes straight from the source itself —\u003ca href=\"http://studentaid.gov\"> studentaid.gov\u003c/a>, said Mayotte. But Californians also have a \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/student-loans/\">student loan ombudsman\u003c/a> that they can reach out to for questions or be reminded \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/student-loans/rights/\">of their rights\u003c/a>. Questions can be sent to Celina.Damian@dfpi.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApJrmMwZAt4\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have an issue with your loan servicer, you can file a complaint with the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/submit-a-complaint/\">Department of Financial Protection and Innovation\u003c/a> (DFPI). You can also reach out to DPFI by email at ask.DFPI@dfpi.ca.gov and by phone at 866-275-2677.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places to get updates on student loans include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.studentloanplanner.com/\">Student Loan Planner\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://freestudentloanadvice.org/about_us/our-staff/\">The Institute of Student Loan Advisors\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.savingforcollege.com/authors/mark-kantrowitz\">Saving for College\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lastly, don’t forget to keep paying your student loans\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayotte added that what has been buried under the latest news concerning the Department of Education layoffs is that many Americans’ credit sources have been going down due to not paying their student loans on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in over four years, said Mayotte, borrowers are “at risk of having their loans affect their credit reports for being 90 days or more delinquent. And I am seeing borrowers that were caught off guard by that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many borrowers have been used to \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement\">pauses on payments\u003c/a> during the height of the pandemic. However, those\u003ca href=\"https://www.attigo.com/news-and-insights/borrower-protections-from-missed-student-loan-payments-expired\"> COVID-era \u003c/a>protections are \u003ca href=\"https://www.attigo.com/news-and-insights/borrower-protections-from-missed-student-loan-payments-expired\">more or less gone\u003c/a>, and Mayotte urged people to check their repayment schedule on studentaid.org to see if they need to resume their monthly payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said people should check on what payment plans work best for them and try to reach out to a loan servicer if they need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people — unless you’re on the SAVE plan or you’re in school — you’re due for payment now. If you become 90 days past due or more, it is going to affect your credit,” she warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">Update, 11 a.m. March 31: \u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003cem>As of March 26, the income-driven repayment plans Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) are \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5343770/trump-student-loan-forgiveness\">now open to enrollment again\u003c/a>. Borrowers can also now \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/loan-consolidation/\">apply for loan consolidation online\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 11, President Donald Trump’s administration\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030839/us-education-department-says-it-is-cutting-nearly-half-of-all-staff\"> announced plans to \u003c/a>cut half of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030839/us-education-department-says-it-is-cutting-nearly-half-of-all-staff\">Department of Education’s workforce\u003c/a> starting Friday, fulfilling parts of a long-held\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909180/what-trumps-threatened-education-cuts-mean-for-students-schools\"> conservative mission\u003c/a> to\u003ca href=\"https://www.nea.org/nea-today/all-news-articles/how-project-2025-would-devastate-public-education\"> weaken the agency\u003c/a>. More than 1,300 positions will be eliminated, according to the announcement, and around 600 more employees accepted voluntary resignations or retired over the last two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Education administers student loans and aid programs and many of the layoffs occurred within \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325854/trump-education-department-layoffs-civil-rights-student-loans\">the Federal Student Aid\u003c/a> department. One in four adults under 40 in the United States \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/18/facts-about-student-loans/\">has student loan debt,\u003c/a> and Americans owed about $1.6 trillion in student loans as of June 2024, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In\u003ca href=\"https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/us-department-of-education-initiates-reduction-force\"> a statement\u003c/a>, the Department of Education said it would “continue to deliver on all statutory programs that fall under the agency’s purview,” including student loans and \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/grants/pell\">Pell Grants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#A\">Jump straight to: I have student loans. Should I be backing up my payment records?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Beth Maglione, the interim president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, called the idea that services will not be interrupted “at best, naive and, at worst, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/35826/Trump_s_Plan_to_Dismantle_the_Department_of_Education_Is_Officially_Underway\">deliberately misleading\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003cem>Inside Higher Ed\u003c/em>, many of the dismissed employees within the Federal Student Aid department assisted with the technical administration of student loans, including working on \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/03/13/how-education-department-layoffs-could-affect-higher\">functionalities for \u003c/a>the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), which was hit hard during its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979367/fafsa-2024-the-big-error-affecting-mixed-status-families-and-what-to-do-if-youre-an-affected-student\">troubled revamp\u003c/a> last year. The planned cuts also include staffers who answered FAFSA questions for students and parents and who handle disputes between \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2025/03/12/yes-your-student-loans-will-be-impacted-by-the-mass-department-of-education-layoffs/\">borrowers and loan services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the big themes that I noticed is that a lot of the helpers are gone,” said Betsy Mayotte, the founder of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://freestudentloanadvice.org/\">Institute of Student Loan Advisors\u003c/a>. “Borrowers need more help, not less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California quickly joined other states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031176/california-other-states-gear-up-fight-department-educations-dismantling\">in a lawsuit\u003c/a> to fight the cuts, but the Department of Education’s precarious situation is now coupled with ongoing uncertainty around repayment plans. Eight million student loan borrowers were enrolled in former President Joe Biden’s SAVE income-driven repayment plan in hopes of cheaper payments and a shorter \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/save-plan-permanently-struck-down-student-loan-borrowers-lose-relief-2025-1\">loan repayment timeline\u003c/a>, but the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the plan in February in a decision that also prevented borrowers from enrolling in other \u003ca href=\"https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/court-decision-blocks-save-plan-and-idr-access/\">income-driven repayment plans\u003c/a> for their student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All this has left the 42.7 million Americans who have \u003ca href=\"https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics\">federal loan debt\u003c/a> with little clarity on what will happen to their current debt, said Adam S. Minsky, a\u003ca href=\"https://minsky-law.com/\"> lawyer specializing\u003c/a> in student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very difficult right now for borrowers to be able to make informed decisions because there is so much uncertainty and volatility right now,” Minsky said. “We don’t know what the landscape is going to look like in a month or six months or a year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, if you have student loans, what \u003cem>do \u003c/em>we know right now? KQED spoke to Minsky and Mayotte about what borrowers should know in the immediate aftermath of the Department of Education cuts and what practical actions they can take right now amid so much confusion. You can also regularly check \u003ca href=\"http://studentaid.gov\">studentaid.gov\u003c/a> for the latest official updates.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>At a glance: What different types of student loan borrowers should know \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you’re a borrower, make sure you know what kind of \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven\">income-driven repayment plan\u003c/a> you’re enrolled in for your student loan debt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Repayment Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>New Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Old Income-Based Repayment (IBR) Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Income-Contingent Repayment (ICR) Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Unless you are on SAVE, you should be making your payments, Mayotte said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s cuts to the Department of Education and \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/08/nx-s1-5250031/federal-student-loan-borrowers-await-court-decision-on-repayment-plan\">SAVE court orders\u003c/a> mean that borrowers could be at the mercy of potential changes to their income-driven payment plans, said Minsky. Some borrowers may see their monthly payments increase. Other borrowers may no longer qualify for certain types of forgiveness programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is possible that borrowers could see some very tangible, possibly negative changes as a result of what’s going on right now with student loans,” Minsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are currently unable to afford your payments, Mayotte said you can ask your servicer \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/lower-payments/get-temporary-relief/forbearance\">for a “forbearance\u003c/a>” — which is the chance to pause payments temporarily. Keep in mind that this is a move you can only make a limited number of times, and interest does accrue during this period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031854\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2204396329-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside of the offices of the US Department of Education in Washington, DC on March 13, 2025 to protest against mass layoffs and budget cuts at the agency, initiated by the Trump administration and DOGE. \u003ccite>(Bryan Dozier/Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If you are on the SAVE plan, look for alternatives\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The SAVE program was meant to serve as \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/despite-collapse-of-his-forgiveness-plan-millions-had-student-loans-canceled-under-biden\">Biden’s victory lap\u003c/a> in fulfilling a campaign promise. However, the courts have now more or less sunk SAVE, said Mayotte,\u003ca href=\"https://www.studentloanplanner.com/doge-access-save-injunction/\"> forcing millions of Americans\u003c/a> into\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/lower-payments/get-temporary-relief/forbearance\"> forbearance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People enrolled in SAVE\u003ca href=\"https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/court-decision-blocks-save-plan-and-idr-access/\"> do not need to make payments\u003c/a> and interest does not apply. They will need to wait to see when the other income-driven payment programs open enrollment in order to switch to those plans. However, \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service/public-service-loan-forgiveness-buyback\">in most cases\u003c/a>, time in this forbearance does not count toward other payment programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It “might be a good idea” for borrowers to “start exploring what your alternative repayment plan options are going to look like” so they are not unprepared for when the change comes, Minsky added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>If you are on ICR or PAYE, you may run into restrictions\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some of the other repayment plans like\u003ca href=\"https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/court-decision-blocks-save-plan-and-idr-access/\"> Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Income Contingent Repayment (ICR)\u003c/a> also got caught up in \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/35688/Court_Ruling_Affirms_Blocking_of_SAVE_Plan_While_Next_Steps_for_the_Program_Remain_Uncertain\">SAVE’s legal challenges\u003c/a> — and after the February court ruling, the Department of Education is now barring people from new enrollment or recertifying their income. You can still enroll in the \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/extended\">\u003cem>non-\u003c/em>income-driven plans\u003c/a> for the chance of having a lower monthly payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are already enrolled in these plans, you can and should still make your payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you cannot recertify your income,\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/income-driven\"> you will not be kicked off\u003c/a> your PAYE or ICR plan. There is a chance that the Department of Education will extend the deadline for recertifying, but that has not been announced yet, said Mayotte. According to the federal student aid website, your required monthly payment amount “will be the amount you would pay under a\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/repayment/plans/standard\"> Standard Repayment Plan with a 10-year repayment period\u003c/a>, based on the loan amount you owed when you initially entered the income-driven repayment plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you completed your required number of months under PAYE, you would be placed in a forbearance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in general, it is unknown when recertification of income or new enrollment for these plans may resume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re hoping that whatever this pause is, it’s temporary and that processing will resume soon,” Minsky said. “It’s still fairly new, so we’ll have to see what happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayotte predicts that these repayment programs — except for SAVE — “are going to come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging that it “can be really difficult” not to panic, Mayotte urged borrowers not to “make any rash decisions based on something that happened today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never seen the chaos that we’re experiencing today, but I do think that in the end, a lot of this is going to shake out,” she said. “Just sort of take a deep breath, keep yourself educated [on the latest updates] and wait and see.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Department of Education, “payments on PAYE, SAVE, and ICR are counted toward \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/save-court-actions\">IBR Plan forgiveness\u003c/a> if the borrower enrolls in IBR.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>You can’t submit online applications for consolidation\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Consolidation allows you to combine your different loan types into one large single loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, because of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/35688/Court_Ruling_Affirms_Blocking_of_SAVE_Plan_While_Next_Steps_for_the_Program_Remain_Uncertain\">SAVE court block\u003c/a>, you are currently unable to apply for this online. You can file a \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/save-court-actions\">paper application and mail it\u003c/a> to loan servicer Aidvantage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2121px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2121\" height=\"1414\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184.jpg 2121w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1403066184-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2121px) 100vw, 2121px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Avoid online misinformation and get your information straight from the source itself, from sites like \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/\">studentaid.gov\u003c/a> or the \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/student-loans/\">Department of Financial Innovation and Protection (DFPI)\u003c/a>. \u003ccite>(Carol Yepes/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Download copies of your Public Service Loan Forgiveness progress \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>More than\u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/policywatch/executive-order-on-restoring-public-service-loan-forgiveness/#:~:text=Impact%3A%20More%20than%202%20million,organizations%20qualify%20for%20the%20program.\"> two million Americans\u003c/a> qualify for the\u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service\"> Public Service Loan Forgiveness \u003c/a>(PSLF) program, which wipes out your debt when you work for a nonprofit and make 120 monthly payments while at a nonprofit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minsky advised that if you are in the program, take screenshots of your progress by heading to “Track Your PSLF Progress” on your online dashboard and certify your employment if you haven’t in a while. Borrowers on the PSLF program need to enroll their employer on the website so their payments can be counted successfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump issued an executive order \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessinsider.com/public-service-student-loan-forgiveness-pslf-not-changing-today-trump-2025-3\">to limit the program\u003c/a> to exclude employees working for\u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-public-service-loan-forgiveness/\"> certain nonprofits\u003c/a>, like organizations the order deems to be “supporting terrorism” and offering “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023784/after-trumps-order-on-two-genders-trans-rights-groups-taking-action\">so-called transgender sanctuary\u003c/a>.” However, those changes are not happening any time soon, according to Federal Student Aid, which is part of the Department of Education. “The PSLF Program is not changing today, and borrowers do not need to take any action,” the agency wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/FAFSA/status/1899103979549667522\"> social media\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Several advocacy groups for student loan borrowers have said that the proposed changes would likely be illegal or unconstitutional,” Minsky said. “And so depending on when they get implemented and what the final regulations look like, there might be legal challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Programs that were created by Congress typically would require Congress to fundamentally change or repeal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>\u003ca id=\"A\">\u003c/a>How can student loan borrowers back up their records?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Anytime you have a debt, it never hurts to keep good records on that debt,” said Mayotte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2025/02/05/student-loan-borrowers-do-these-7-things-as-the-department-of-education-faces-uncertain-future/\">article for \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, Minsky detailed several ways borrowers should save their loan information in case of any changes the federal government may make, like taking down agency websites. (Several digital archivist groups, like the Wayback Machine, have already been attempting to\u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/culture/400705/internet-purge-offline-government-website-archive-trump\"> save records\u003c/a> of these shuttered websites, and Minsky suggested you may \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2025/02/05/student-loan-borrowers-do-these-7-things-as-the-department-of-education-faces-uncertain-future/\">consider taking screenshots\u003c/a> of the details of your plan on the Department of Education website.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Minsky advises you to consider:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Taking screenshots of your student loan dashboard on studentaid.org\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Include any progress you may have made on income-driven repayment plans.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Downloading your federal student loan data \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Log into your studentaid.org account on your computer, which may make this process easier than navigating on mobile. Click on “View Details” on your dash and then select “My Aid.” There should be a “Download My Aid Data” in the top right corner. This will result in a raw file downloaded to your computer.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Downloading your student loan record from your loan servicers\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use studentaid.org to find out if your loan servicer is either MOHELA, EdFinancial, Aidvantage or Nelnet. You can then check your account directly with these services and download your loan data to complement the data you downloaded straight from studentaid.org.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How to add extra security to your student aid account\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In late February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business/money-report/federal-judge-blocks-musks-doge-from-access-to-student-loan-borrowers-personal-data/3639469/?os=v%5B0%5D&ref=app\">a judge blocked efforts\u003c/a> by billionaire Elon Musk and staffers at the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-congress-4e0c025629e8a0c758d13dc916ab4f43\">DOGE)\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-congress-4e0c025629e8a0c758d13dc916ab4f43\">gain access\u003c/a> to student loan data. This came after labor unions like the American Federation of Teachers sued agencies for allowing Musk to have access to the data in the first place, stating\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/education-department-trump-doge-8c5bba3883b3d924b28114a4f291bec4\"> concerns about\u003c/a> the privacy of millions of borrowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Minsky noted there has been “\u003ca href=\"https://archive.ph/WMXai#selection-887.135-887.299\">no clear indication\u003c/a>” of widespread danger to borrower accounts, he wrote that it could be helpful for Americans to update the passwords on their studentaid.gov account and enable two-factor authentication (also known as 2FA), which will send a code to your phone or email that you would then use to access your dashboard.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How to recognize misinformation about student loans right now \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayotte stressed that “wrong” and “damaging” rumors about student loans have spread far and wide on TikTok and Facebook. “So be wary where you’re getting your student loan information,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayotte said posts she’s already debunked from other borrowers include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>False: Current events may mean your loans could be wiped out\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Online, some hopeful borrowers posted — perhaps in an ironic vein — that if the Department of Education is gone, so are student loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Minsky said even with cuts at the agency, “it doesn’t fundamentally change the nature of the debt that folks owe. It doesn’t mean that you don’t have to repay their loans. It doesn’t mean that loans disappear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>False: Your loans could change — or be reduced — by being moved into another part of the federal government.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if a person’s student loan portfolio \u003cem>was \u003c/em>moved out of the Department of Education and into another office like \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7265794/what-will-happen-to-student-loans-if-department-of-education-closes/\">the Treasury\u003c/a>, as Trump has proposed, “it would just mean that a different agency was performing the oversight,” said Mayotte. “Terms and conditions of the loans aren’t going to change, the servicers aren’t going to change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>False: Student loans can be forgiven because of Musk getting access to data \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/24/federal-judge-blocks-musks-doge-access-to-student-loan-borrowers-data.html\">temporary restraining order\u003c/a> that stopped Musk’s DOGE staffers from accessing student loan data due to privacy concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even if Musk and his affiliates were found to have isolated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), students would not be able to have their loans forgiven despite what circulating social media posts may claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayotte said this has not historically ever been a way to \u003ca href=\"https://www.studentloanplanner.com/doge-access-save-injunction/\">rectify a FERPA violation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Where can I find information and guidance about my student loans?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The best information comes straight from the source itself —\u003ca href=\"http://studentaid.gov\"> studentaid.gov\u003c/a>, said Mayotte. But Californians also have a \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/student-loans/\">student loan ombudsman\u003c/a> that they can reach out to for questions or be reminded \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumers/student-loans/rights/\">of their rights\u003c/a>. Questions can be sent to Celina.Damian@dfpi.ca.gov.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/ApJrmMwZAt4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/ApJrmMwZAt4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>If you have an issue with your loan servicer, you can file a complaint with the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://dfpi.ca.gov/submit-a-complaint/\">Department of Financial Protection and Innovation\u003c/a> (DFPI). You can also reach out to DPFI by email at ask.DFPI@dfpi.ca.gov and by phone at 866-275-2677.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other places to get updates on student loans include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.studentloanplanner.com/\">Student Loan Planner\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://freestudentloanadvice.org/about_us/our-staff/\">The Institute of Student Loan Advisors\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.savingforcollege.com/authors/mark-kantrowitz\">Saving for College\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Lastly, don’t forget to keep paying your student loans\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mayotte added that what has been buried under the latest news concerning the Department of Education layoffs is that many Americans’ credit sources have been going down due to not paying their student loans on time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in over four years, said Mayotte, borrowers are “at risk of having their loans affect their credit reports for being 90 days or more delinquent. And I am seeing borrowers that were caught off guard by that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said many borrowers have been used to \u003ca href=\"https://studentaid.gov/debt-relief-announcement\">pauses on payments\u003c/a> during the height of the pandemic. However, those\u003ca href=\"https://www.attigo.com/news-and-insights/borrower-protections-from-missed-student-loan-payments-expired\"> COVID-era \u003c/a>protections are \u003ca href=\"https://www.attigo.com/news-and-insights/borrower-protections-from-missed-student-loan-payments-expired\">more or less gone\u003c/a>, and Mayotte urged people to check their repayment schedule on studentaid.org to see if they need to resume their monthly payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said people should check on what payment plans work best for them and try to reach out to a loan servicer if they need help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people — unless you’re on the SAVE plan or you’re in school — you’re due for payment now. If you become 90 days past due or more, it is going to affect your credit,” she warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Universities across the U.S. have implemented AI-detecting software like Turnitin to prevent cheating through the use of AI tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some professors have embraced the use of generative AI and envision its integration into curricula and research in various disciplines. To these professors, students learning how to use AI is critical to their future careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://download.ssrn.com/2024/10/3/4975641.pdf?response-content-disposition=inline&X-Amz-Security-Token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELz%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCIHLuqU0DaQLRK6M1yiufsr%2F1Z5wAMUKEjgjmvTx7iiHvAiALhEtG9jfPo4wMuZ59kEDc7Jlb9PvBxDf77xud9kzIHyq%2BBQg1EAQaDDMwODQ3NTMwMTI1NyIMCc0%2B3BMQmaWNpRuRKpsFGH%2BdsoeYDZ%2BPuW8%2F44BhO5S1XA%2FRvuE5yBpxzjdfg%2FANfFCWooqO2sin1fsAQDnBhCRXH1ke3YwUPgb1tqIX5zqHYX8jcyrMWND1Tsy2Uf2E%2FPcOETSQ1d68BMD2z%2BFAXVeqMGJevA8S3QGBDV4sI25C%2FGQKgEYztawZJttF%2F7l5IsiqG6SQw4ax396C6hZ%2FfddItLxK0wV0lRVmpK8Tm0JmeoXBE79glrT1rvB%2Bu%2BLaEU1GluAK9kgxElBEEhi9rFjdVzt2zYvCh%2Fx663ZzuwYvYL4X5luknfgmWcyM3JvBqt1SyYh5bLDUyiLviAB9BJ7vsJKdrj6Y4FqaOjNoVx4hBUxfJnbpNkSXg4Ci8cSwBG217uCz3loqCtFirS1DA3m5YC293uEEk1EOGaDmJd92FuLyNhjfWaREtK4oYKRdwlkrT6MyvcqvP%2FTUekqxE4jkbJ6r9B4WvXhZM%2B2gDHWI91qvThqrueSWDM%2FLs9Ed5yGZXLtlKTpqgXmcstlVukxBIZ05fZnmv1UkqdGnmkS4iAREuEUXJMf3B5oJ7g7c%2FecV8zAB%2F6S2T5kKBdqPL78rCV5pZuIpaw7XaGLaErwMMMHFGK4KRAD5iYdVhn8yVYZwW5s4Z88WqmOIjrTAQAkHP3R3riK1XcUyHh5HgWXRrIxNd57WAywPLGpVWYyUzlh7BTQskKQzJsiRM2xdXFZh1Y9rzDOzLv%2BdtIQZLGQ9FAO%2B1OpM4uCddGIFeFv2FUzI1e1aFCfP32Cxo4AsANw%2FaCGCqbA6MujSRK8aYOjUawIePW3c8zZt%2Bt1EH%2FtHkhqaUvE3%2FVQrSzXy1142rbWbeJKQIoWuy63c1oYzs2MqHiZG6VKXLZcyA67H1RaBQOKwZjETClHq2jDwpfq4BjqyAa2LhxG78J%2FEelsAHSF2S8%2F8G3CsuRwNk7lfYJkgYYuUzq0mznwEC2YGvA2VY695TXGwRe%2Bv%2FAaoRR6JmjWp0E%2FdPoYYYj8l7vU0nt0scV4XGOhcNPA4eJQ7sgqhpbb8cJeZsiR8k6InUTlkCP6dAS2UWAo3J4ggJ4MwmPxsyAOypaoYD3YuKxak94h2vuyskCY1zXgybj6c4G56NnRgehfqXsSXy2Rl9%2BP5cvaaDzjQ5sE%3D&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Date=20241027T200507Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Credential=ASIAUPUUPRWE2N5VVOEM%2F20241027%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Signature=26c4d42e6232c9bb5b2bc6e9e1347b44fbbfe34fd748b8b68eda4648958bf75c&abstractId=4975641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 2024 report\u003c/a> from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business found that 38% of the school’s faculty use AI in their classrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramandeep Randhawa, professor of business administration and data science at USC, was one of the report’s 26 co-authors and organized the effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As companies increasingly integrate AI into their workflows, it is critical to prepare students for this AI-first environment by enabling them to use this technology meaningfully and ethically,” Randhawa said. “Universities, as bastions of knowledge, must lead the way by incorporating AI into their curricula.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All in on AI\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At California State University, Long Beach, gerontology lecturer Casey Goeller has incorporated AI into his course assignments since fall 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students enter Goeller’s Perspectives on Gerontology course with various levels of experience with AI. By asking students for a show of hands, Goeller estimates the class is usually evenly split, with some students having no experience, others having dabbled with it and some who have used it extensively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goeller aims to help students understand how AI can be beneficial to them academically, whether it be assisting with brainstorming, organizing, or acting as a 24/7 on-call tutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To achieve this, Goeller’s assignments include students using an AI tool of their choice to address his feedback on their essays based on criteria such as content, flow and plagiarism concerns. Another assignment, worth 15% of their grade, emphasizes the importance of prompt engineering by having students use AI-generated questions to interview an older person in their life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Goeller gets a lot of questions from fellow faculty members about how AI works and how to implement it, he also hears plenty of hesitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of faculty who’s still riding a horse to work, I call it,” Goeller said. “One of them said, ‘I am never going to use AI. It’s just not going to happen.’ I said, ‘What you should do if you think you can get away with that is tomorrow morning, get up really early and stop the sun from coming up, because that’s how inevitable AI is.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goeller heeds the difficulties in establishing a conclusive way to incorporate AI into curricula due to different academic disciplines and styles of learning, but he does recognize the growing presence of AI in the workforce. Today, AI is filling various roles across industries, from analyzing trends in newsrooms and grocery stores, to generating entertainment, a point of contention for SAG-AFTRA members during 2023’s Hollywood strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t help our students understand AI before they escape this place, they’re going to get into the workforce where it’s there,” Goeller said. “If they don’t know anything about it or are uncomfortable with it, they’re at a disadvantage compared to a student with the same degree and knowledge of AI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State University, Northridge, journalism lecturer Marta Valier has students use ChatGPT to write headlines, interview questions and video captions in her Multimedia Storytelling and Multi-platform Storytelling classes due to the inevitability of AI in the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the implementation is to teach students how AI algorithms operate and how journalists can use AI to assist their work. Not using it, she said, “would be like not using ink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely want students to experiment with AI because, in newsrooms, it is used. In offices, it is used,” Valier said. “It’s just a matter of understanding which tools are useful, for what and where human creativity is still the best and where AI can help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot are frequently \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated\u003c/a>, so Valier emphasizes flexibility when teaching about these technological topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I basically change my curriculum every day,” Valier said. “I think it reminds me as a professional that you need to constantly adapt to new technology because it’s going to change very fast. It’s very important to be open, to be curious about what technology can bring us and how it can help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Valier acknowledges the issues of AI in terms of data privacy and providing factual responses. She reminds students that it is their responsibility to make sure the information ChatGPT provides is accurate by doing their own research or rechecking results, and to avoid reliance on the platform. [aside postID=\"news_12031237,mindshift_64575,mindshift_65296\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be very careful with personal information,” Valier said. “Especially if you have sources, or people that you want to protect, be very careful putting names and information that is sensitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valier sees a clear difference in the quality of work produced by students who combine AI with their own skills, versus those who rely entirely on artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can tell when the person uses ChatGPT and stays on top of it, and when GPT takes over,” Valier said. “What I am really interested in is the point of view of the student, so when GPT takes over, there is no point of view. Even if [a student] doesn’t have the best writing, the ideas are still there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Balancing AI use in the classroom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many AI-friendly instructors seek to strike a balance between AI-enriched assignments and AI-free assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At USC, professors are encouraged to develop AI policies for each of their classes. Professors can choose between two approaches, as laid out in the school’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://academicsenate.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/02/CIS-Generative-AI-Guidelines-20230214.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instructor guidelines for AI use\u003c/a>: “Embrace and Enhance” or “Discourage and Detect.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Carnes, an associate professor of clinical accounting at USC, has adopted a balance between both approaches while teaching Introduction to Financial Accounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I use it all the time, so it doesn’t make sense to tell (students) they can’t use it,” Carnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a red vest sits on a desk chair in front of a desk with three computer monitors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An avid user of AI tools like ChatGPT, USC associate professor of clinical accounting Bobby Carnes encourages AI experimentation for some assignments, but prohibits students from using it on exams. \u003ccite>(Christina Chkarboul/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">Carnes uses AI to refine his grammar in personal and professional work and to develop questions for tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I give ChatGPT the information that I taught in the class, and then I can ask, ‘What topics haven’t I covered with these exam questions?’ It can help provide a more rich or robust exam,” Carnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t allow students to use AI in exams that test for practical accounting skills, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need that baseline, but we’re trying to get students to be at that next level, to see the big picture,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carnes said he wants his students to take advantage of AI tools that are already changing the field, while mastering the foundational skills they’ll need to become financial managers and leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nice thing about accounting is that the jobs just become more interesting (with AI), where there’s not as much remedial tasks,” Carnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preserving foundational learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Olivia Obeso, professor of education and literacy at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, believes establishing foundational knowledge and critical thinking skills through AI-free teaching is non-negotiable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obeso enforces her own no ChatGPT/AI usage policy in her Foundations of K-8 Literacy Teaching class to prepare her students for challenges in their post-collegiate life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AI takes out the opportunity to engage in that productive struggle,” Obeso said. “That means my students won’t necessarily understand the topics as deeply or develop the skills they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obeso is also concerned about ChatGPT’s environmental impact: For an in-class activity at the start of the fall 2024 semester, she asked students to research the software’s energy and water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy required to power ChatGPT emits 8.4 tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"http://earth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth.Org\u003c/a>. The average passenger vehicle produces 5 tons per year. Asking ChatGPT 20-50 questions uses \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"http://earth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500 millliters (16.9) ounces of water\u003c/a>, the size of a standard plastic water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the exercise, Obeso said her students became “experts” on ethical considerations concerning AI, sharing their findings with the class through a discussion on what they read, how they felt and whether they had new concerns about using AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are a student and you are learning how to operate in this world, hold yourselves accountable,” Obeso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Odden, a senior majoring in child development, said Obeso’s class helped them understand AI use in the classroom as an aspiring teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people that are using (AI) in the wrong ways, it makes people reassess how people might be using it, especially in classes like this where we are training to become teachers,” Odden said. “What are you going to do when you actually have to lesson-plan yourself?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Odden makes sure she sticks to learning the fundamentals of teaching herself so that she will be prepared for her first job.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>AI in curricula\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the University of California, San Diego, some faculty members have echoed a concern for AI’s infringement upon independent learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic coordinator Eberly Barnes is interested in finding a middle ground that incorporates AI into curricula where it complements students’ critical thinking, rather than replaces it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes oversees the analytical writing program, Making of the Modern World (MMW), where her responsibilities include revising the course’s policy of AI use in student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current policy enables students to use AI to stimulate their thinking, reading and writing for their assignments. However, it explicitly prohibits the use of the software to replace any of the aforementioned skills or the elaboration of the written piece itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the encouraged use of AI, Barnes expressed her own hesitancy about the role of AI in the field of social sciences and the research and writing skills needed to work within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the goals in MMW is to teach critical thinking and also to teach academic writing. And the writing is embedded in the curriculum. You’re not going to learn to write if you’re just going to machine,” Barnes said. “The policy is inspired by the fact that we don’t think there’s any way to stop generative AI use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Barnes designs the writing prompts for the second and third series in the MMW program, she collaborates with teaching assistants to make assignment prompts incompatible with AI analysis and reduce the likelihood that students will seek out AI’s help for passing grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students feel absolutely obsessed with grades and are very pressured to compete,” Barnes said. “That’s been around. I mean it is definitely worse here at UCSD than it was at other colleges and universities that I’ve been at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tool, not a cheat code\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Celeste Pilegard is a professor of cognitive science and educational psychology at UCSD. She has been teaching introductory research methods since 2019, focusing on foundational topics that will prepare students for higher-level topics in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators like Pilegard have been struggling to adapt after the widespread adoption of AI tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me and a lot of professors, there’s fear,” Pilegard said. “We’re holding onto the last vestiges, hoping this isn’t going to become the thing everyone is using.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pilegard is concerned that students rely on AI tools to easily pass their intro-level courses, leaving them without a firm understanding of the content and an inability to properly assess AI’s accuracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to notice what is real and what is fake, what is helpful and what is misguided,” Pilegard said. “When you have enough expertise in an area, it’s possible to use ChatGPT as a thinking tool because you can detect its shortcomings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Pilegard does believe AI can assist in learning. She likens the current situation with AI to the advent of statistical analysis software back in the 1970s, which eliminated the need to do calculations by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, many professors argued for the importance of students doing work manually to comprehend the foundations. However, these tools are now regularly used in the classroom with the acceptance and guidance of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”I don’t want to be the stick in the mud in terms of artificial intelligence,” Pilegard said. “Maybe there are some things that aren’t important for students to be doing themselves. But when the thing you’re offloading onto the computer is building the connections that help you build expertise, you’re really missing an opportunity to be learning deeply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article featured reporting from the California Student Journalism Corps, EdSource’s journalism mentoring and support initiative.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As companies increasingly integrate AI into their workflows, it is critical to prepare students for this AI-first environment by enabling them to use this technology meaningfully and ethically,” Randhawa said. “Universities, as bastions of knowledge, must lead the way by incorporating AI into their curricula.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">All in on AI\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At California State University, Long Beach, gerontology lecturer Casey Goeller has incorporated AI into his course assignments since fall 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students enter Goeller’s Perspectives on Gerontology course with various levels of experience with AI. By asking students for a show of hands, Goeller estimates the class is usually evenly split, with some students having no experience, others having dabbled with it and some who have used it extensively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goeller aims to help students understand how AI can be beneficial to them academically, whether it be assisting with brainstorming, organizing, or acting as a 24/7 on-call tutor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To achieve this, Goeller’s assignments include students using an AI tool of their choice to address his feedback on their essays based on criteria such as content, flow and plagiarism concerns. Another assignment, worth 15% of their grade, emphasizes the importance of prompt engineering by having students use AI-generated questions to interview an older person in their life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Goeller gets a lot of questions from fellow faculty members about how AI works and how to implement it, he also hears plenty of hesitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of faculty who’s still riding a horse to work, I call it,” Goeller said. “One of them said, ‘I am never going to use AI. It’s just not going to happen.’ I said, ‘What you should do if you think you can get away with that is tomorrow morning, get up really early and stop the sun from coming up, because that’s how inevitable AI is.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goeller heeds the difficulties in establishing a conclusive way to incorporate AI into curricula due to different academic disciplines and styles of learning, but he does recognize the growing presence of AI in the workforce. Today, AI is filling various roles across industries, from analyzing trends in newsrooms and grocery stores, to generating entertainment, a point of contention for SAG-AFTRA members during 2023’s Hollywood strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t help our students understand AI before they escape this place, they’re going to get into the workforce where it’s there,” Goeller said. “If they don’t know anything about it or are uncomfortable with it, they’re at a disadvantage compared to a student with the same degree and knowledge of AI.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California State University, Northridge, journalism lecturer Marta Valier has students use ChatGPT to write headlines, interview questions and video captions in her Multimedia Storytelling and Multi-platform Storytelling classes due to the inevitability of AI in the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the implementation is to teach students how AI algorithms operate and how journalists can use AI to assist their work. Not using it, she said, “would be like not using ink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I absolutely want students to experiment with AI because, in newsrooms, it is used. In offices, it is used,” Valier said. “It’s just a matter of understanding which tools are useful, for what and where human creativity is still the best and where AI can help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AI tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot are frequently \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated\u003c/a>, so Valier emphasizes flexibility when teaching about these technological topics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I basically change my curriculum every day,” Valier said. “I think it reminds me as a professional that you need to constantly adapt to new technology because it’s going to change very fast. It’s very important to be open, to be curious about what technology can bring us and how it can help us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Valier acknowledges the issues of AI in terms of data privacy and providing factual responses. She reminds students that it is their responsibility to make sure the information ChatGPT provides is accurate by doing their own research or rechecking results, and to avoid reliance on the platform. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Be very careful with personal information,” Valier said. “Especially if you have sources, or people that you want to protect, be very careful putting names and information that is sensitive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valier sees a clear difference in the quality of work produced by students who combine AI with their own skills, versus those who rely entirely on artificial intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can tell when the person uses ChatGPT and stays on top of it, and when GPT takes over,” Valier said. “What I am really interested in is the point of view of the student, so when GPT takes over, there is no point of view. Even if [a student] doesn’t have the best writing, the ideas are still there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Balancing AI use in the classroom\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many AI-friendly instructors seek to strike a balance between AI-enriched assignments and AI-free assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At USC, professors are encouraged to develop AI policies for each of their classes. Professors can choose between two approaches, as laid out in the school’s \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"https://academicsenate.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/02/CIS-Generative-AI-Guidelines-20230214.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">instructor guidelines for AI use\u003c/a>: “Embrace and Enhance” or “Discourage and Detect.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bobby Carnes, an associate professor of clinical accounting at USC, has adopted a balance between both approaches while teaching Introduction to Financial Accounting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I use it all the time, so it doesn’t make sense to tell (students) they can’t use it,” Carnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A white man wearing a red vest sits on a desk chair in front of a desk with three computer monitors.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/6-Bobby-Carnes-@-USC-scaled-1-1920x1280.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An avid user of AI tools like ChatGPT, USC associate professor of clinical accounting Bobby Carnes encourages AI experimentation for some assignments, but prohibits students from using it on exams. \u003ccite>(Christina Chkarboul/EdSource)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"has-text-align-left\">Carnes uses AI to refine his grammar in personal and professional work and to develop questions for tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I give ChatGPT the information that I taught in the class, and then I can ask, ‘What topics haven’t I covered with these exam questions?’ It can help provide a more rich or robust exam,” Carnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He doesn’t allow students to use AI in exams that test for practical accounting skills, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need that baseline, but we’re trying to get students to be at that next level, to see the big picture,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carnes said he wants his students to take advantage of AI tools that are already changing the field, while mastering the foundational skills they’ll need to become financial managers and leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The nice thing about accounting is that the jobs just become more interesting (with AI), where there’s not as much remedial tasks,” Carnes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preserving foundational learning\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Olivia Obeso, professor of education and literacy at California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, believes establishing foundational knowledge and critical thinking skills through AI-free teaching is non-negotiable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obeso enforces her own no ChatGPT/AI usage policy in her Foundations of K-8 Literacy Teaching class to prepare her students for challenges in their post-collegiate life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AI takes out the opportunity to engage in that productive struggle,” Obeso said. “That means my students won’t necessarily understand the topics as deeply or develop the skills they need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obeso is also concerned about ChatGPT’s environmental impact: For an in-class activity at the start of the fall 2024 semester, she asked students to research the software’s energy and water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy required to power ChatGPT emits 8.4 tons of carbon dioxide per year, according to \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"http://earth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth.Org\u003c/a>. The average passenger vehicle produces 5 tons per year. Asking ChatGPT 20-50 questions uses \u003ca class=\"external\" href=\"http://earth.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">500 millliters (16.9) ounces of water\u003c/a>, the size of a standard plastic water bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the exercise, Obeso said her students became “experts” on ethical considerations concerning AI, sharing their findings with the class through a discussion on what they read, how they felt and whether they had new concerns about using AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are a student and you are learning how to operate in this world, hold yourselves accountable,” Obeso said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Odden, a senior majoring in child development, said Obeso’s class helped them understand AI use in the classroom as an aspiring teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people that are using (AI) in the wrong ways, it makes people reassess how people might be using it, especially in classes like this where we are training to become teachers,” Odden said. “What are you going to do when you actually have to lesson-plan yourself?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Odden makes sure she sticks to learning the fundamentals of teaching herself so that she will be prepared for her first job.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>AI in curricula\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the University of California, San Diego, some faculty members have echoed a concern for AI’s infringement upon independent learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic coordinator Eberly Barnes is interested in finding a middle ground that incorporates AI into curricula where it complements students’ critical thinking, rather than replaces it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes oversees the analytical writing program, Making of the Modern World (MMW), where her responsibilities include revising the course’s policy of AI use in student work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current policy enables students to use AI to stimulate their thinking, reading and writing for their assignments. However, it explicitly prohibits the use of the software to replace any of the aforementioned skills or the elaboration of the written piece itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the encouraged use of AI, Barnes expressed her own hesitancy about the role of AI in the field of social sciences and the research and writing skills needed to work within it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the goals in MMW is to teach critical thinking and also to teach academic writing. And the writing is embedded in the curriculum. You’re not going to learn to write if you’re just going to machine,” Barnes said. “The policy is inspired by the fact that we don’t think there’s any way to stop generative AI use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Barnes designs the writing prompts for the second and third series in the MMW program, she collaborates with teaching assistants to make assignment prompts incompatible with AI analysis and reduce the likelihood that students will seek out AI’s help for passing grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Students feel absolutely obsessed with grades and are very pressured to compete,” Barnes said. “That’s been around. I mean it is definitely worse here at UCSD than it was at other colleges and universities that I’ve been at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A tool, not a cheat code\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Celeste Pilegard is a professor of cognitive science and educational psychology at UCSD. She has been teaching introductory research methods since 2019, focusing on foundational topics that will prepare students for higher-level topics in the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Educators like Pilegard have been struggling to adapt after the widespread adoption of AI tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For me and a lot of professors, there’s fear,” Pilegard said. “We’re holding onto the last vestiges, hoping this isn’t going to become the thing everyone is using.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pilegard is concerned that students rely on AI tools to easily pass their intro-level courses, leaving them without a firm understanding of the content and an inability to properly assess AI’s accuracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to notice what is real and what is fake, what is helpful and what is misguided,” Pilegard said. “When you have enough expertise in an area, it’s possible to use ChatGPT as a thinking tool because you can detect its shortcomings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Pilegard does believe AI can assist in learning. She likens the current situation with AI to the advent of statistical analysis software back in the 1970s, which eliminated the need to do calculations by hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At that time, many professors argued for the importance of students doing work manually to comprehend the foundations. However, these tools are now regularly used in the classroom with the acceptance and guidance of educators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>”I don’t want to be the stick in the mud in terms of artificial intelligence,” Pilegard said. “Maybe there are some things that aren’t important for students to be doing themselves. But when the thing you’re offloading onto the computer is building the connections that help you build expertise, you’re really missing an opportunity to be learning deeply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>David Anderson has a knack for fixing computers. He’s gotten a lot of practice at McClymonds High School in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/west-oakland\">West Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, the 17-year-old junior quickly replaced a screen. There were laptops from all over the school district marked with sticky notes with messages such as “charger not working” or “screen cracked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ You get to learn the layout of a computer and how they work,” Anderson said. “It gives people the skills to actually repair their own things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is one of three paid student interns at McClymonds High School who help repair and maintain the 41,000 Chromebooks used by more than 33,000 Oakland Unified School District students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, called OUSD Tech Repair Hub, started in the summer of 2021 as the district navigated remote learning in response to COVID-19, which the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864254/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed\">declared a global pandemic\u003c/a> five years ago Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 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(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Anderson, a junior at McClymonds High School, works through a stack of broken Chromebooks at his job as one of three paid interns at his high school under Oakland Unified’s student-led Chromebook repair program, where students are hired to repair the devices during the school year. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The district maintains 41,000 Chromebooks, many of them repaired by students. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chromebook with a removed bezel is ready to be repaired by one of the students who work up to eight hours a week during the school year and receive $18/hr. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s Technology Services teach the student interns, who are paid $18 an hour, to repair keyboards, screens and batteries. The program also relies heavily on peer-to-peer education, with more experienced students teaching those who are new to the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDnOjqusgA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students at McClymonds work during their free periods for up to eight hours a week during the school year. The district also operates repair hubs at Oakland High School and Fremont High School. According to OUSD, the hubs have repaired over 800 devices so far this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns David Anderson and Gavin Armstrong, along with Colleen Piper, a college readiness manager, and Samantha Nuñez, an IT program manager, organize stacks of Chromebooks that need to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1348\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1294.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns and high school juniors Gavin Armstrong and David Anderson look at a broken Chromebook during their free period. This internship programs helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint in addition to saving the district money with each repair. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the summer, the program employs 15 interns who work 30 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We always thought that this was something that students would be able to do, and it frees up OUSD’s Tech Services to do more complicated repairs,” said Sam Berg, OUSD’s computer science coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg estimates the program saves OUSD about $240 for every Chromebook repair. The program also helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint. When a Chromebook breaks, the interns harvest reusable parts to be used to keep other Chromebooks in service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028960 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California is one of several states that have passed “right-to-repair” legislation in recent years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson says his internship with the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OUSD Tech Repair Hub\u003c/span> “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gives people the skills to actually repair their own things.”\u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last June, California joined a small but growing list of states that have passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976367/bay-areas-fix-it-culture-thrives-as-right-to-repair-law-takes-effect-soon\">“right-to-repair” legislation\u003c/a>. The law is boosting programs like OUSD’s by requiring manufacturers of appliances and electronics to provide consumers with parts, tools, and information needed for repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nehemiah Cody, a senior at McClymonds, will be the school’s eighth intern to graduate from the program. He said the internship has inspired him to consider pursuing biomedical engineering in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This internship opened a lot of doors for me,” Cody, 17, said. “ Anytime I see something broken, I feel like I can fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is one of three paid student interns at McClymonds High School who help repair and maintain the 41,000 Chromebooks used by more than 33,000 Oakland Unified School District students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, called OUSD Tech Repair Hub, started in the summer of 2021 as the district navigated remote learning in response to COVID-19, which the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864254/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed\">declared a global pandemic\u003c/a> five years ago Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Anderson, a junior at McClymonds High School, works through a stack of broken Chromebooks at his job as one of three paid interns at his high school under Oakland Unified’s student-led Chromebook repair program, where students are hired to repair the devices during the school year. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The district maintains 41,000 Chromebooks, many of them repaired by students. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chromebook with a removed bezel is ready to be repaired by one of the students who work up to eight hours a week 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