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Ensuring that more of CA's diverse students complete a B.A. and access a better life.

The College Access Foundation of California is a private foundation committed to increasing the number of low-income students who attend and complete college across the state. We believe improving college achievement is central to preserving California’s future, and the Foundation works to provide low-income and historically underrepresented student populations with the knowledge, resources, and t

ools they need to make that achievement possible. Our funding supports programs and organizations that offer college scholarships, financial aid advising, and specialized support services to these students. Established in 2005 with assets from the sale of the nonprofit student loan company Chela Education Financing, Inc., the Foundation’s endowment is approximately $400 million.

16/09/2013

Save the dates for our 2014 Regional Convenings: 5/20 in LA and 5/21 in Oakland! Grantees, check out the link for more info--including other learning opportunities and new Foundation staff.

Marty joined the Foundation in April 2013 as Chief Learning Officer. Marty is responsible for the leadership, management, and day-to-day operations of the Foundation’s evaluation, learning, and research functions and their application to strategy development, program planning, and achievement of CAF...

02/07/2013

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/2013/07/02/10-highest-priced-public-colleges-for-out-of-state-students?src=usn_tw

Nonresident students pay a premium to attend these top-rated public college and universities.

02/07/2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/07/01/10-things-every-college-grad-needs-to-know-about-money-2/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Mary Morrison, who has taught a personal finance class to Stanford University seniors for 15 years, has seen the depths of college students’ ignorance about personal finances. There was the young woman who thought “paid vacation” meant that her boss would pay for all her travel and leisure activitie...

01/07/2013

Humanities degrees likely steady (vs in decline), though much under-valued.

Here's what the Harvard report doesn't tell us.

27/06/2013

A viable and smart contribution to the question of how to integrate humanities-based skills in higher ed curriculum and delivery, for 21st c relevance.

The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in traditional arts-and-sciences fields (English, mathematics, biology) peaked in the late 1960s, when about half of all degrees awarded were in those disciplines. Today, such majors account for about a quarter of degrees, as students have fled to practical d...

18/06/2013

Great synopsis of the socio-economic education divide in this country: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/schooling-ourselves-in-an-unequal-america/

To regain our lead in educational achievement, we’ll have to work from the bottom up.

17/06/2013

College Bound 2.0 Graduation recognizes young Black men headed to college!

See http://oaklandlocal.com/2013/06/college-bound-brotherhood-2-0-graduation-to-recognize-bay-area-young-black-men-headed-to-college/

African-American young men from throughout the San Francisco Bay Area who have graduated from high school and are heading to college in the fall will be recognized June 19 at a special graduation c...

03/05/2013

Will common core close the gap between K-12 and and college? http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/05/03/common-core-curriculum-k-12-could-have-far-reaching-effects-higher-education

For traditional college freshmen, the gap between high school and college is easy to step across -- a few months, at the most, between graduating from one institution and enrolling at another. For those institutions, though, the distance between K-12 and higher education is often more like an unbrid...

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