Bills by California lawmakers aim to end turf war over community college bachelor’s degrees

Bills by California lawmakers aim to end turf war over community college bachelor’s degrees

San Diego Mesa College, where a bachelor’s degree program has been hung up by red tape. (File photo by Alexander Nguyen) It soon could become much easier for California community colleges to create new bachelor’s degree programs. The state’s community colleges, which primarily offer certificates and two-year associate degrees, are permitted to create bachelor’s degrees that fill workforce needs, but existing law allows them to do so only if they…