Note: UC-EVP Nathan Brostrom is a member of the group that produced the underlying report.*
From: EdSource: In a development that would be no doubt welcomed by many would-be college students and their parents, California should develop a common application form for admission to all levels of public higher education in California, including the state’s community colleges system. Currently, students must apply to each system separately. The proposal is just one of myriad recommendations issued by a task force convened by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration to come up with what it is calls “a roadmap for higher education after the pandemic.”
The common application outlined in the task force’s “Recovery with Equity” report released Tuesday would replace what it called “the currently overwhelming and Byzantine application and transfer processes.” To do so, the task force said, would require developing an “integrated technology platform” that currently doesn’t exist. The 20-member panel was organized by Lande Ajose, Newsom’s principal advisor on higher education, in consultation with Newsom’s Council for Post-Secondary Education which he established in 2019. The council is made up of the heads of all public education systems in California, labor leaders and others...
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*The report is at:
https://www.capostsecondaryforall.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Recovery-with-Equity_2021Feb15.pdf
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