Educating Julio: Identifying and Addressing Community Colleges' 'Unmet Need'

Under Governor Brown’s proposed budget, for the first time since the recession, community colleges will be able to grow. But where is growth most needed? How can the state better promote equity? What complications emerge in determining how to target growth for under resourced districts or underrepresented groups?

Our report, Educating Julio, examines strategies for growing our community college enrollment building on the analysis we released in November of 2013. It describes some of the dynamics of community college enrollment that underlie the debate about how “unmet need” should be defined, identified, and addressed.