Madera Community College Center students who need a little help getting groceries on the table can avoid hunger pangs by checking out the new Lions Den Food Pantry. The pantry, which is available to all 4,500 students enrolled this semester (and any future enrolled students), is in the R1B building...
Soul-Crushing Cost of College in California, Explained
It’s not your grandparents’ — or even your parents ’— higher-ed system. A young Californian of the Baby Boomer generation, bolstered by the post-war economic boom and the state’s investment in public higher education, could often emerge from college with little to no debt and a clear path to a...
Private Colleges Wary as Cal Legislator Calls for Crackdown on Legacy Admits
The nationwide scandal involving bribery in college admissions has also illuminated all the legal ways wealthy families can game the system. Now the debate over how to respond has hit the California Legislature, and struck a nerve not just with the state's public higher education system but also with private...
The #RealCollege Guru Offers Three Ways to Fix California’s Student Financial Aid
If the plight of hungry and homeless college students has lately caught the national media’s attention, it’s in no small part due to the efforts of Temple University professor Sara Goldrick-Rab. Goldrick-Rab, who describes herself as a “scholar activist,” has been trying to get policymakers to address the cost of college for...
Reedley College Students Aim High and Soar in the Sky
After Lorenzo Rios flew in his friend's small private airplane to Superior Dairy in Hanford, he knew exactly what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Not overindulge in ice cream. Fly airplanes. "From the first second our wheels got off the ground, I knew instantly that this...