Q&A with Walter Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges and an ACT board member, regarding how community colleges can maintain and enhance their distinct service to students and communities, especially after the Covid pandemic.
Multiple rallies and walkouts were held across the state on Tuesday, where teachers and students called for more funding and higher teacher pay.
The effort has wide bipartisan support across both state chambers, along with the stamp of approval of the state’s 50 community college districts and several business organizations that are rooting for the move.
California’s only fully online community college is no longer struggling for students as the state’s tiniest.