Opinion: Want more diversity in schools? Copy the University of California and look to community colleges
LA TimesPeople walk the UCLA campus in May. Ivy league and other peer schools need to do something they’ve never done with any consistency or devotion: widen their enrollment pipeline to welcome transfer students from community colleges in substantial numbers. Students attending community colleges form a diverse pipeline for baccalaureate institutions while dodging some of the issues that complicate recruitment efforts for high school graduates. Still, many elite institution leaders object to expanding transfer student enrollments with the fear that open-access community colleges could not possibly prepare these students for the demands of their bachelor’s degree programs. But let’s not compound the error by continuing to ignore America’s community college students who — in California and elsewhere — make an enormous contribution to the diversity and prestige of U.S. higher education.
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UCLA’s fall class bucks trend of diversity decline at elite colleges after affirmative action ban
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Letters to the Editor: Your smart kid wasn’t the only perfect student rejected by Stanford or Berkeley
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California community college enrollment plummets to 30-year low
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UC will give a second chance to rejected California high school students
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California Community Colleges chief to resign as student achievement rises, enrollment plummets
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UC and CSU are unaffordable, and a 4-year degree isn’t the only way to succeed, Californians say in poll
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California is failing to meet demand for UC admission. Why it’s a crisis
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UC admits largest, most diverse class ever, but it was harder to get accepted
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California community college enrollment plummets amid pandemic, putting some campuses at risk
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Enrollment at US community colleges plummets amid pandemic
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UC’s record-smashing applications put long-held diversity goals within reach
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Fewer Students Are Going To Community College, Despite High Unemployment
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