{"id":90837,"date":"2025-12-12T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/90837\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T00:10:07","slug":"media-teleconference-maps-rising-enrollment-across-california-community-colleges-the-rampage-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/90837\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Teleconference Maps Rising Enrollment Across California Community Colleges \u2013 The Rampage Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian hosted a Student Media Teleconference with student journalists across the state on Dec. 9, after the last meeting was postponed in March.<\/p>\n<p>Christian and CCC\u2019s Director of Communications and Marketing, Paige Marlatt Dorr, presented information regarding CCC schools\u2019 increased enrollment in the fall semester exceeding the system\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/vision2030.cccco.edu\/letter-from-chancellor-christian-to-californians\/#:~:text=or%20left%20behind.-,At%20the%20heart%20of%20Vision%202030%20is%20a%20reimagining%20of,organizations%2C%20labor%2C%20and%20industry.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vision 2030<\/a> roadmap <a href=\"https:\/\/vision2030.cccco.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Enrollment\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2530841 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image1-4-1200x676.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"676\"  \/>A line graph illustrating a 9.6% spike in enrollment data across California community colleges, during the Fall 2025 semester, exceeding CCC\u2019s predicted data.<\/p>\n<p>Christian cited that enrollment across California community colleges has risen by 9.6% since the\u00a0 height of the COVID-19 pandemic and predicts a 4.6% increase by 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enrollments are off the charts. We\u2019re the system that is rebounding the strongest within the higher-ED systems in the nation,\u201d Christian said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Increased Security Measures<\/p>\n<p>Community colleges across California have reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-06-24\/community-colleges-financial-aid-fraud\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patterns of financial aid fraud<\/a>, where scammers will create artificial fraudulent accounts to enroll in community college classes in order to reap the benefits of student aid resources.<\/p>\n<p>Christian explained that CCC is beginning to implement the digital security service <a href=\"http:\/\/id.me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ID.me<\/a> to authenticate students\u2019 identity and keep out potential scammers to protect the money for financial aid recipients. When implemented, students would have to submit a photo of their drivers license or state issued ID\u00a0 to prove their identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy putting in ID.me we were able to reduce the number [of bots] that flow through the application and [start] enrolling in classes,\u201d Christian said. \u201cWe\u2019re using an AI tool to look at patterns of behaviors that are not real, student behaviors, to be able to flag any bad actors that might be using bots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Teleconference Scheduling<\/p>\n<p>These teleconferences used to be held four times a year with two in the spring and two in the fall. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therampageonline.com\/news\/2024\/10\/08\/2528349\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like previous semesters<\/a> the first teleconference is usually in October or November, but according to Dorr, their team was understaffed and had to cancel the first teleconference of this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tend to offer roughly four student media teleconferences a year, two in the fall and two in the spring,\u201d Dorr said. \u201cWe are on track for at least two teleconferences in the spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorr and Christian plan to continue with more teleconferences in order to keep student journalists and their readers informed on the CCC system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian hosted a Student Media Teleconference with student journalists across the state on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-90837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}