Commentary: Community colleges deserve more love from higher-ed mega-donors
LA TimesLos Angeles City College pictured in October 2020, when the California Community Colleges announced it had received $100 million from the Jay Pritzker Foundation to help more students complete degrees, transfer to universities and pay for basic living expenses. As a journalist, I’ve covered community colleges for decades — the high dropout rates, the students who arrive uncertain about why they’re in college, and too often unprepared for college-level work. How about giving private scholarship assistance to community college students so maybe they could get by with just a half-time job on top of their full course load?” Bill Ackman, who led the charge against former Harvard President Claudine Gay, is the most vocal and visible of the super-wealthy to press Harvard on the antisemitism issue. And in 2020, a donation of $100 million from the Jay Pritzker Foundation went to the state’s community college system for scholarships to help its nearly 2 million students.
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Historic $100-million gift will help California community college students most in need
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