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San Diego Lawmaker Wants Community Colleges To Award 4-Year Degrees
Recommendations are being made for CA junior colleges, such as Mira Costa College, to be allowed to award four-year degrees in vocational majors.
Just this week, San Diego State University announced the number of applicants for next term is at an all-time high.
There has also been a record-breaking number of applications to University of California schools across the state.
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As the demand for four-year degrees continues to surge, the state's community colleges want to get in on the act.
A final report being prepared by a state community colleges study group will likely recommend that many California junior colleges be allowed to award four-year degrees in vocational majors, such as nursing and information technology.
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State Sen. Marty Block (D-San Diego) is planning to introduce legislation allowing such a change. Similar proposals in the past have failed, but Block says times have changed.
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