Bachelors at California Community Colleges?
KPBS reports that Governor Brown has signed into law a bill that allows some California Community Colleges to offer a Bachelors. The article states:
One of the many bills Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law over the weekend makes it possible for some community colleges in California to offer bachelor's degrees.
The new law allows the California chancellor of community colleges to choose 15 community colleges to be the first to offer bachelor's degrees.
The Sacramento Bee gives further clarifications on this bill. It states:
Further review of articles indicate that the focus of these degrees will be in vocational fields. US News and World Reports defines this as the $10,000 dollar degree. Apparently other states have followed this model as well.
In what could portend a monumental shift in public higher education in California, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday that will allow up to 15 community colleges to launch bachelor’s degrees programs in vocational fields.
While 21 other states offer community collegebaccalaureates, California’s colleges have traditionally been the domain of transfer students and career technical education, granting two-year associate degrees, as established more than 50 years ago in the Master Plan for Higher Education. Senate Bill 850 will allow colleges to experiment with four-year degrees. The pilot program is set to begin no later than the 2017-18 academic year and end in 2024.
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