Chancellor Sonya Christian Has Big Plans for California Community Colleges

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Earlier this year Sonya Christian became the first woman chancellor of the California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country serving 1.9 million students across 116 colleges. We’ll talk to Christian about her plans to address declining enrollment, ease transfers from community college to the UC and Cal State systems and create more community college baccalaureate degree programs. And we’ll hear from you: what did you gain from your community college education? What would you change about California’s system? Guests: Sonya Christian, chancellor, California Community Colleges - Website URL: https://sonyachristianblog.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	Coming up on forum, we sit down with the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges.
1:00.0	Sonia Christian has big goals for the higher education system that serves nearly 2 million students across the state,
1:06.0	including how to address declining enrollment and help students already enrolled complete their degrees.
1:11.6	Are you or have you been a community college student? What has it done for you? Or are you,
1:16.6	like many students who left at the height of the pandemic? What would help you re-enroll? We want
1:21.6	to hear from you and take your questions for Community Colleges Chancellor Sonia Christian.
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1:46.6	Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. California's community colleges play an outsized role here. Some 60% of the state's undergrads attend community colleges, well above the national average. And the new chancellor,
1:52.0	Sonia Christian, wants to see a lot more students attending one of the 116 schools across the
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