Tag: Gov. Gavin Newsom

Community Colleges

California Gov. Newsom Proposes $12 Billion Increase in Higher Ed Investments

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a $12 billion increase for higher ed, with investments in college affordability, strengthening pathways, improving time to degree and graduation and addressing COVID-19 pandemic impacts on students. The investments aim to close racial equity gaps, which have been exacerbated during the pandemic. The higher ed budget proposed in the […]

May 18, 2021

Asian American Pacific Islander

Higher Ed’s Diversity Gave First Filipino Attorney General In California A Boost

Asian American college students were protesting in San Francisco about the rise in Asian American hate over the weekend. #StopAsianHate, #StopAsianAmericanHate, hashtag it whatever you will.  But the answer to their prayers—at least in California—may have come earlier in the week when Rob Bonta was nominated to be the state’s attorney general, the top law enforcement official in the nation’s most as Asian American state.

March 29, 2021

African-American

California Senate Approves Bill Requiring State Universities to Implement Ethnic Studies Course Requirement

Beginning next fall, all California State Universities will implement a three-unit ethnic studies course as part of a graduation requirement for all students, according to Mustang News. On Thursday, the California Senate approved the Assembly Bill 1460 to establish an ethnic studies course focused on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Latinx Americans. If […]

June 26, 2020

Students

California Higher Ed Leaders Call for Emergency Aid for DACA Students

Higher education advocates in California wrote to Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday calling for the utilization of state and federal relief funds to provide emergency financial aid during the COVID-19 pandemic for more than 82,000 low-income California college students, including nearly 12,000 undocumented students supported by the California Dream Act. They also called for a […]

May 7, 2020

Sports

Fair Pay To Play Hailed As Game-Changer

The Fair Pay To Play Act that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Sept 30. is being hailed as a game-changer for collegiate athletics.

October 6, 2019

Faculty & Staff

New California Bill Benefits Part-Time Community College Faculty

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law that will eliminate the three-year cap on the transfer of sick leave between districts at all education levels.

July 19, 2019

News Roundup

Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond Appointed to Lead State Board of Education

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has named Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, to lead California’s State Board of Education. Darling-Hammond who also chairs the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, will become the first African-American woman to head the 11-person state board that is a significant factor in determining and monitoring implementation of […]

February 13, 2019