The Contra Costa Community College District will expand free tuition for up to two academic years to Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College and Los Medanos College beginning with this fall’s semester.
The program is no longer limited to first-time students, the district said in a press release.
To qualify, students must complete the Free Application for Federal Student AID known as FAFSA or the California Dream Act application for the current academic year.
Applicants must enroll for a minimum of 12 units and be a California resident or otherwise exempt from non-resident tuition fees, the district said.
Students are not required to qualify for financial aid, demonstrate financial need or meet any income requirements.
Participants are responsible for their own books, supplies, and materials fees.
To learn more about the Full-time Free Tuition Program, see https://www.4cd.edu/insite/full-time-free-tuition-program/.
IT’S NOT FREE ! ! !
Given that it is covered through tax money, and they have now expanded this to more tax payers, what is your problem?
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It’s not free. It’s taxpayer-funded.
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Illegal immigrants should be ineligible. They’re leeches.
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Correct. And one more thing, isn’t it a crime to aid and abet someone that’s a criminal? Hmmmm, all those city, state, federal gov’t employees committing crimes.
IT’S TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED, YOU MORONS!!!
Expands, not expends. For the sake of credibility.
Free tuition = taxpayer funded tuition.
Why stop stop at tuition? How about books, supplies, housing and maybe a food allowance.
I support that
I think it’s a great idea, as long as the classes provide real-world education and not propaganda and indoctrination.
Tennessee figured out several years ago that having an educated workforce was essential to attracting the types of employers that were migrating to the area.
𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐞 allows ALL graduating High School Seniors to attend Community College at no cost. All the students have to do is complete their assignments and maintain their grade average.
𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 allows ANY adult resident, regardless of age, income, or education, to go back to Community College to earn a technical degree or certification in a wide variety of career fields. Students do have to buy books but pay no tuition. When they complete the program, students have a marketable skill without the burden of student debt.
@COWELLIAN…..If memory serves me correctly, and it may not at this point, DVC and CA community colleges were like those Tennessee programs in the early 70s and before, weren’t they? I don’t remember paying tuition, just books.
Nytemuvr, I wasn’t in California at that time, so I don’t know. During the early 70s, I was getting my technical education from a different institution.
@COWELLIAN….I missed the “different institution” you mentioned by just a couple of numbers.
@nytemuvr, yes. You are correct about that.
Your memory is serving you well. I started DVC in 1970 and the only fees were from books. There may have been some fees collected for certain labs or PE courses, but I cant recall for sure.
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They used it all up?
Community college was free to students in CA before Reagan was governor. We can better ensure that we have critical thinkers in our workforce and our society if we provide at least two years of liberal arts study after high school.
How about instead, we provide two years of vocational school to better ensure our workforce has marketable skills?
In what way is our liberal arts program producing critical thinkers? The last thing our educational system seems to do is accomplish independent thought.
Vocational training is important BUT I don’t agree with SUBSTITUTING it for liberal arts that benefits EVERYONE by honing critical thinking skills. I believe vocational training is something that comes in addition to liberal arts, whether that vocation be in HVAC or medical or legal or business classes, or other vocations
I agree in principle but our educational system has proved very clearly that they will predictably substitute critical theory for critical thinking, political activism for liberal arts, etc.
This country needs more people working the the trades.
College is not the answer for everyone.
Trade training should be offered by community colleges too.
There are a lot more opportunities in the trades.
Trade shops should be back in jr and senior high schools. After the ninth grade in just jr high I could and did operate table saws, wood laths, routers, jointers, planers and drill presses. It is the best time to learn. My father went to school part time and worked as an apprentice in his trade. Started at fourteen and was a journeyman at 18. Was financially independent from then on.
When I went through DVC there was a machine technology program and training(Mr. Johnson) to be a machinist, up to and including CNC work, and a welding program(Mr. Potter) with classes to be a certified welder. I went through both and had my pick of jobs, afterwards.
I’m all for free or very low cost education for residents, meaning people who have lived here and paid taxes here for a significant length of time.
Bring back shop courses to jr and senior high schools. Biggest mistake the education industry ever did was eliminating them so you would go to jr college.
@Ricardoh
What they also need to bring back is Home Economics.
They gave up on that also? Wow I just wonder who is responsible for all that damage.
Free indoctrination at taxpayers expense…..is desaunier having a townhall meeting to make free tuition for all the border crossers?
Because, I enjoyed too much coffee this morning; give this a surf:
http://www.cccco.edu
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I can remember at one time the primary purpose (Mission Statement) of the California Community College System was to promote vocational training and such.
Now…
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So much gobbledygook… No wonder our taxes are so high.
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ps: seems I always know somebody who knows somebody, but….
I directly know a person who taught full time at U C Davis. They went to a Community College because the pay and benefits were much better.
pss: sorry for the rant… I’ll honor Y’all with the last word on this…
If this program makes people more self-sufficient and less reliant on social programs, I’m for it. I’d rather my takes go towards free education instead of free hand outs we see every day (drugs, hotel rooms). Like the proverb says… Teach a man to fish…