Michele Siqueiros is executive director of the Campaign for College Opportunity and a Los Angeles native. Before participating in a panel on how to make higher education more inclusive, she hated on bad PowerPoint presentations, expressed her love for burritos, and confessed to a recent speeding ticket in the Zócalo green room.
The University of California (UC) system has struggled to reflect the state’s ethnic diversity since California eliminated race-based affirmative action in 1996. Last fall, a video created by a group …
In 1996, California voters banned affirmative action in public universities. Since then, the state’s public universities have struggled to enroll black and Latino students–and to keep them on campus. Over …
On the first day of my SAT prep class in L.A.’s Koreatown in the summer of 2012, I arrived at what appeared to be an office building, with dark glass …
My destination was the Center for Learning and Academic Support Services (C.L.A.S.S.) in building 11 on the small college complex of California State University Dominguez Hills in Carson, California. I …
College costs have exploded in recent years, and California has been at ground zero. The College Board estimates that tuition and fees for four-year schools in the UC system have …
