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Community colleges now can offer 4-year degrees
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Oct 1, 2014
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Community colleges now can offer 4-year degrees
Thanks to bill SB 850, signed by Governor Jerry Brown this week, some community colleges will soon be allowed to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees.
Image of Pasadena Community College. PCC is one of the supporters of a new program that would allow some community colleges to offer 4 year degrees
Image of Pasadena Community College. PCC is one of the supporters of a new program that would allow some community colleges to offer four-year degrees.
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Thanks to bill SB 850, signed by Governor Jerry Brown this week, some community colleges will soon be allowed to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees.

This week Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that could have a dramatic effect on higher education in California.

Thanks to the bill, SB 850, some community colleges will soon be allowed to offer four-year baccalaureate degrees. Supporters of the new program hail it as a way to offer highly sought after degrees at a fraction of the cost.

Take Two speaks with the author of the bill: San Diego State Senator Marty Block.