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California's failure to diversify community college faculty tied to arcane state law


Above: Students at the library at De Anza College in Cupertino before the pandemic in 2019.
Nation s largest college system: richly diverse student body with mostly white faculty.
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March 1, 2021
At a time of renewed focus on race and equity across academia, the nation’s largest higher-education system is saddled with a byzantine and failing strategy to diversify its teaching ranks to more closely reflect its student body.
California’s 115 community colleges, serving a diverse student body of more than 1.2 million full-time students, rely on a little-known system of state fines to improve racial and ethnic diversity among faculty.
However, the fines are generated only when the colleges, which are organized into 73 districts, fail to employ enough full-time professors. The fines, which totaled $1.2 million in 2019, are charged to the districts based on a formula established in state law to favor full-time faculty. ....

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Proof that NJ's aid program for college students works


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File photo: May 13, 2018, new graduates walk into the High Point Solutions Stadium before the start of the Rutgers University graduation ceremony in Piscataway Township.
New Jersey’s Tuition Aid Grant program is significant in helping students graduate on time, particularly those at the lowest income levels and those attending the state’s four-year public colleges, according to a study that state officials plan to use as they consider possible changes to the decades-old program.
In a report released earlier this month on the Tuition Aid Grant (TAG) program, the nonpartisan RAND Corporation found that $1,000 in additional aid over four years led to a 2.6 percentage point increase in the on-time graduation rate at New Jersey’s public universities. Additionally, TAG had a “positive” effect on the lowest-income recipients attending community colleges and private universities. ....

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