{"id":37722,"date":"2025-07-31T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37722\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T20:52:08","slug":"billie-jean-king-spills-on-the-surprising-way-shes-earning-college-credit-in-her-80s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37722\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Jean King Spills on The Surprising Way She\u2019s Earning College Credit In Her 80s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tennis legend Billie Jean King has revealed the unexpected way she\u2019s earning credits toward a bachelor of arts degree in history at California State University, Los Angeles. King, 81, <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/billiejeanking\/status\/1904138860554072473?s=46&amp;t=Y15L-A6qezOQ7rlColxQ-A&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/billiejeanking\/status\/1904138860554072473?s=46&amp;t=Y15L-A6qezOQ7rlColxQ-A\" rel=\"nofollow\">announced in March<\/a> that she was going back to college more than 60 years after she quit school to go pro and enrolled in the same major as back in the 1960s. The Title IX trailblazer also runs a New York-based business and foundation promoting education, leadership, and activism, meaning she and her professors have gotten creative with her course requirements. In addition to taking classes remotely, she\u2019s earning course credit by speaking to inmate students enrolled in Cal State L.A.\u2019s Prison Graduation Initiative. \u201cThey have made a commitment to improving their lives through education,\u201d she told the Los Angeles Times. \u201cGetting their degree will be life-changing for them.\u201d King will enroll in classes this fall as a senior and is on track to graduate in the spring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"American tennis player Billie Jean King in action during Wimbledon Championships, London, UK, 27th June 1968.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WOQJEZE5TZARPOT5KM5ETV5WOM.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"800\"\/>Billie Jean King, pictured here competing in the 1968 Wimbledon Championships, dropped out of Cal State L.A. in the early 1960s to go pro. Evening Standard\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images <a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-07-31\/she-left-csula-in-the-1960s-to-conquer-tennis-at-81-billie-jean-king-is-back-chasing-a-degree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis legend Billie Jean King has revealed the unexpected way she\u2019s earning credits toward a bachelor of arts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[27611,49,3335,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-37722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-billie-jean-king","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}