California Community Colleges Between a Rock and a Hard Place

The California Postsecondary Education Commission recently published an advisory report for the governor and legislature on the crunch where declining budge resources meet climbing demand for enrollment in community colleges: 

"The community colleges took an 8 percent budget cut for the 2009–10 school year. If the colleges cut enrollment proportionately, nearly 180,000 potential students could be turned away. The state is currently not providing any funding for enrollment growth. Three-quarters of districts already serve more students than they have space for. To catch up with growing enrollment demand, community colleges will need at least 3% enrollment growth funding annually until college opportunity is restored."

Read the full article here; http://www.cpec.ca.gov/PressRelease/Press2009_08_31_Mtg.pdf

A meeting agenda and reports may be viewed at www.cpec.ca.gov/agendas/agnd0909.asp. CPEC audio-streams its meetings atmedia.cpec.ca.gov/media.