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PRESS RELEASE — New Salary Surfer Website Shows Median Earnings for Those Who Earn Certificates and Associate Degrees at California Community Colleges

June 19, 2013

EL CAJON, Calif. — A new online tool released today by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office allows students and the public to view aggregated median earnings of those who complete a certificate or degree in a specific community college discipline and then enter the workforce.

MEDIA ADVISORY — California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice W. Harris to Hold Press Conference and Media Briefing June 19 on Release of Salary Surfer Website

June 12, 2013

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice W. Harris and college and community leaders in Southern California will hold events and a teleconference to announce the groundbreaking new online tool that allows students and the public to view the aggregated median earnings of those who complete a certificate or degree in a specific community college program and then enter the workforce. The new Salary Surfer tool displays median incomes for those who complete 179 of the most widely enrolled programs and do not transfer to a four-year institution. The data shows the median earnings for someone two years before entering college and two years and five years after earning certificate or degree.

PRESS RELEASE —California Community Colleges Professor Receives International Award for Development of Open Educational Resource

May 22, 2013

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — De Anza College mathematics professor Dr. Barbara Illowsky has received the 2013 OpenCourseWare Consortium’s Educator ACE Award for her work in creating an open statistics textbook that is in use by more than 20 colleges in North America and for working to expand open educational resources throughout the world. Illowsky accepted her award recently at the consortium’s annual global conference in Indonesia.

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College Bound Brotherhood 2.0 Graduation recognizes young Black men headed to college
The San Francisco Chronicle
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