College students must focus on finishing on time
With the Legislature and governor still battling over a multi-billion-dollar budget hole, higher education is only going to get more costly, student aid less likely and the availability of college classes stretched thin… In its "Closing the Gap" report, the Public Policy Institute of California recently concluded California will have 1 million fewer college graduates than it needs in 2025. Only 35 percent of working-age adults will have a college degree in an economy that would otherwise require 41 percent of workers to have a college degree. Researchers at PPIC point out that expected school funding cuts are coming at a bad time. To keep growing, California’s economy needs more college graduates; it needs more money, not less, invested in education.
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by Frank Gornick, The Bakersfield Californian.