2020 Policy Priorities

Policymakers must prioritize equitable postsecondary and workforce opportunities and outcomes to ensure our state’s regional economies and communities can weather the COVID-19 crisis, recover quickly, and withstand future threats.

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Workforce Alignment

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Adult Degree Completion Strategies

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Integrated Statewide Data System

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Degree Gap

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Innovative Institutional Practices

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Statewide System Coordination

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Higher Education Finance Reform

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California Competes in the Community

California Competes travels across the state to participate in and lead important conversations about improving higher education and workforce outcomes for all Californians. See where we've been recently, and what's coming up on our calendar.

California Data System Policy & Analytics Advisory Group Meeting

September 10, 2020

U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences' Pathways Fellows Presentation

April 28, 2020

Learning with Dependents: Supporting Student Parents During COVID-19 & Beyond

April 28, 2020

Institute for Women's Policy Research Student Parent Policy Working Group

March 10, 2020
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Policy Research to Support California During Crisis and in Recovery

Su Jin Gatlin Jez | April 03, 2020

California Competes Executive Director Dr. Su Jin Gatlin Jez shares how our organization aims to support our state’s recovery and ensure that we’re better positioned to withstand the devastating effects of a future crisis.

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Spotlight

California Competes 2020 Policy Priorities

California Competes | April 30, 2020

Our 2020 policy priorities advocate for equitable postsecondary and workforce opportunities and outcomes to ensure our state’s regional economies and communities can weather this crisis, recover quickly, and withstand future threats. Focused on safeguarding and enhancing the future of underserved communities across the state, this platform lays out key strategies to ensure postsecondary education is truly a vehicle for economic and social mobility in California.

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Brief

Clarifying the True Cost of College for Student Parents

California Competes | January 30, 2020

This brief details how net price calculators, tools designed to help students budget for college, have inefficiencies that perpetuate affordability issues for student parents.

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