California’s first fully online community college is due to open on Oct. 1, with an ambitious agenda not only to train low-wage workers for better jobs — free of charge — but to find employers to hire them and mentors to give them on-the-job coaching… The college’s state-imposed deadlines are firm, fixed by the same 2018 state law that created it. The rush to meet those deadlines has already led to controversy. Hiles pushed the board to approve a no-bid contract for a friend and politically connected recruiter, whose job is to bring in key executives over two months. Several board members criticized the move. Executive recruiters who spoke to The Chronicle said the timeframe that Hiles has to build her executive team is extremely tight and could place the program’s quality at risk.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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