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(Background on the Campaign for College Opportunity)
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The Campaign for College Opportunity is a California non-profit organization co-founded in 2003 by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the California Business Roundtable and the Community College League of California. The Campaign has a small professional staff and is headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Sacramento and Modesto.
The Campaign's mission is to ensure our state produces one million additional college graduates, between now and 2025, to meet the workforce demands of the future and ensure California's economic prosperity. In order to achieve this mission, the Campaign will be focused on substantially increasing college-going rates in California and substantially increasing the number and proportion of students who achieve their postsecondary education objectives.
There is a dire need for both increased state investment and encouraging strong state leadership if we are to achieve our mission. The Campaign will lead an ambitious outreach agenda that will rely heavily on a strengthened and deeply committed coalition of key leaders in targeted regions of California, as well as a strategic public awareness effort that highlights the crisis facing higher education in California.
The Campaign for College Opportunity recently adopted policy priorities which include insisting the Governor and state legislature create a public agenda for higher education that is based investing in higher education to meet statewide priorities; improving the transfer pathway from two year colleges to four year universities; promoting policy and finance reforms that support improved student outcomes; and ensuring early college awareness and college readiness for a broader number of California's youth.
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