California leads the nation in many areas of higher education, including educating the largest number of state university students at 458,000 and community college students at 1.9 million.
The state is also grappling with issues that are being tackled by other public universities across the country, such as improving graduation rates especially among underrepresented students; making it easier for students to transfer from community college campuses to public universities; and harnessing the power of dual admission as two colleges are doing in Northern Virginia.
This is a continuing EdSource series on proven innovations in higher education that relate to the problems facing California’s higher education systems.
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