COURTESY OF: EdSource Before the end of his junior year at Washington State University Tri-Cities, Jesse Gonzalez already had a job offer. His internship with an environmental cleanup company in Richland, Wash., had gone so well that his bosses invited Gonzalez to join full-time after completing his studies. That seemed easy. All he needed was enough financial aid to cover …

COURTESY OF: EdSource California State University is taking the forecast of a snowballing budget gap so seriously, even a recent message touting a new hire came with the equivalent of a financial weather advisory. The nation’s largest university system welcomed Emily F. Cutrer as the new interim president of Sonoma State University last week with the stern reminder that she must address “enormous …

COURTESY OF: EdSource The University of California admitted a record number of California resident first-year students for the upcoming fall term, offering a spot to 93,920 of them, the university system announced Wednesday. UC also made more admission offers to community college transfer students and to low-income students. Latino students were the largest demographic group of admitted first-year students, while …

COURTESY OF: EdSource California is better off when more people have education and training to power our economy and support thriving communities. Financial aid that reduces or fully covers the cost of college or job training is an investment that benefits all of us. About $550 million in federal and state aid goes unused annually when thousands of eligible California …

COURTESY OF: EdSource New research that tracked high school juniors in Los Angeles Unified found that those who took math as seniors — from algebra to advanced calculus — were better positioned to enroll and stay in college than those who didn’t. The study, “Twelfth Grade Math and College Access“, released in January by UCLA’s Los Angeles Education Research Institute, …

COURTESY OF: EdSource Sacramento State students line up to pay bills and receive financial aid information. Every fall, thousands of aspiring and continuing college students across California, particularly those from low-income communities and communities of color, grapple with the problem of how to finance a college degree. Today’s students are put in an impossible situation. College graduates earn 80% more …