Going Above and Beyond
This story comes from Inside Higher ED, and certainly will not be a surprise to anyone in the CCCs. Nearly all of the California Community Colleges enrolled more students than the state paid for this academic year. the CCCs are taking on a disproportionate share of the state's 202,000 unfunded students. The colleges and districts are typically doing this by using reserve funds and other cost cutting measures. The top four districts in terms of percentage of unfunded students are: Barstow (39.7%), Desert (26.9%), Sequoias (26.2%), and Mt. San Jacinto (25.5%). Overall, 7.2% of the students in the CCCs were unfunded.
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