California’s 115 community colleges will likely remain an online system of higher education in the fall, its chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley said Monday.
Oakley’s remarks began the meeting of California Community Colleges Board of Governors meeting, the body that oversees the system of 2.1 million students.
Commenting on the system’s transition to online instruction in March, Oakley admitted that “there have been lots of bumps on the road to this transition” but that “by and large faculty have made an amazing transition, our colleges have made amazing effort to continue to engage our students.”
The Board of Governors meeting is the first of the three public higher education segments in California — the CCC, CSU, and the University of California — to gather following the release of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised budget for next year.
The president of the faculty union representing the system’s instructors said that proposed budget cuts to community colleges make in-person learning in the fall a non-starter.
