Adam Echelman

California, United States

Community College Reporter at CalMatters

Covering community colleges @CalMatters. @Benton_Inst fellow on the digital divide. Past: @ModBee. Former Exec Director @LWB_USA. Fluent in Gibberish 🏳️‍🌈

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Trump cites California LGBTQ+ centers to justify big cuts to ‘woke’ campuses

4 days ago | calonews.com | Adam Echelman

Lira and his staff set up the meeting room for the celebration, draping each table in a lavender cloth and hanging streamers from the ceiling. Together with the balloons and the catering, including pan dulce with lavender-colored crusts, the event cost about $3,000, he said, all of it supported by federal funds. The grants to San Diego’s pride centers were an earmark, requested by local Democratic US Rep. Sara Jacobs.
Trump cites California LGBTQ+ centers to justify big cuts to ‘woke’ campuses

5 days ago | kpbs.org | Adam Echelman

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Over 2,500 miles from Washington D.C., in a windowless meeting room at a San Diego community college, President Donald Trump’s fight with higher education is playing out. “This presidential thing, we will not let that happen here at Mesa College,” said Lucio Lira, the coordinator at the college’s “pride center,” as an audience of over 50 students, faculty and staff applauded loudly. That “thing” is a budget cut.
President Trump cites California LGBTQ+ centers to justify big cuts to ‘woke’ campuses

5 days ago | pressdemocrat.com | Adam Echelman

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Over 2,500 miles from Washington D.C., in a windowless meeting room at a San Diego community college, President Donald Trump’s fight with higher education is playing out. “This presidential thing, we will not let that happen here at Mesa College,” said Lucio Lira, the coordinator at the college’s “pride center,” as an audience of over 50 students, faculty and staff applauded loudly. That “thing” is a budget cut.
How The Trump Administration’s Vow to Revoke Chinese Student Visas Could Hurt California

5 days ago | independent.com | Adam Echelman

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. The Trump administration’s latest vow to “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas could affect as many 50,000 students in California, a population larger than Palm Springs. Sending those students home would have far-ranging financial impacts.
Trump cites California LGBTQ+ centers to justify big cuts to ‘woke’ campuses

1 week ago | capradio.org | Adam Echelman |Zoe Meyers |Zoë Meyers

By Adam Echelman, CalMattersThis story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Over 2,500 miles from Washington D.C., in a windowless meeting room at a San Diego community college, President Donald Trump’s fight with higher education is playing out. “This presidential thing, we will not let that happen here at Mesa College,” said Lucio Lira, the coordinator at the college’s “pride center,” as an audience of over 50 students, faculty and staff applauded loudly.
Trump calls out California LGBTQ+ centers to justify big cuts to 'woke' campuses

1 week ago | calmatters.org | Adam Echelman

San Diego’s community college district finds itself directly in Trump’s crosshairs: Its “pride centers” were the only items called out by name in the administration’s plan to slash more than $10 billion of federal spending on education. Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians.
How the Trump administration’s vow to revoke Chinese student visas could hurt the California universities

1 week ago | berkeleyside.org | Adam Echelman |Zac Farber

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The Trump administration’s latest vow to “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas could affect as many 50,000 students in California, a population larger than Palm Springs. Sending those students home would have far-ranging financial impacts. Foreign students not only pay higher tuition than in-state students, but they also feed local economies with the dollars they spend with local businesses.
How Trump’s move to revoke Chinese student visas could hurt CA- CalMatters

1 week ago | calmatters.org | Adam Echelman

Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for WhatMatters to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State. The Trump administration’s latest vow to “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas could affect as many 50,000 students in California, a population larger than Palm Springs. Sending those students home would have far-ranging financial impacts.
Fraud pushes community colleges to consider an application fee

1 week ago | times-standard.com | Adam Echelman

Under scrutiny from state and federal lawmakers, California’s community colleges are trying to crack down on financial aid fraud. Scammers have increasingly infiltrated the state’s 116 community colleges, posing as students in an effort to steal financial aid from the state and federal government. At a meeting Tuesday, the board that oversees California’s community colleges voted to require all students to verify their identity, which is currently optional for most applicants.
Community college app fee

1 week ago | laist.com | Adam Echelman

Why it matters: There is no fee to apply to community college and tuition is free for low-income students. Once enrolled, a student can obtain thousands of dollars in financial aid, money that can be used to cover the cost of books, housing, food and transportation. That aid has become an easy target for scammers, who often submit dozens or hundreds of applications at a time , using real California addresses and Social Security numbers in order to create fraudulent college accounts.