To some, Cal Poly Humboldt’s enrollment glass might seem half empty. After all, the university’s current enrollment numbers — which won’t be finalized until Sept. 18 — show an uptick from last fall of just 2 percent, an increase of 123 students where the campus had projected a spike of 2,000 just six months ago. […]
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California Needs Thousands of Nurses, but Leaders Can’t Agree on How to Fill Jobs
Ashley Hooks always planned to retire at Lakewood Regional Medical Center, where she has been a nurse for 12 years. But now, Hooks said, staffing issues are so bad and burnout so severe that she’s rethinking how she wants to spend the rest of her career. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, the number of nurses […]
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Cal Poly Humboldt Scales Back Hotel Housing Plans as School Year Approaches
Both excitement and concern about a potential explosion in Cal Poly Humboldt’s enrollment due to its new status as the state’s third polytechnic university seem to have been premature. While the university excitedly announced in November that freshman applications were up 86 percent over the prior year, then set a wave of panic across campus […]
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‘Super Disappointed’: Lawmakers Want UC, CSU Systems to Enroll More Californians Sooner
“Frustrating.” One word, uttered under breath by a California lawmaker, captured a sentiment, at times boiling over into anger, among legislators struggling to get more California students into the University of California. What Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento, found frustrating last week was the UC’s seeming refusal to adopt the same systemwide guaranteed […]
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Who’s Missing from California’s Community Colleges?
California community colleges have seen their enrollment drop by about a fifth during the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 300,000 fewer students enrolled in fall 2021 compared with fall 2019. “This raises critical concerns about equitable access to higher education as well as the ability to meet workforce needs,” said Paul Feist, vice chancellor of […]
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The Collapse of Community College Enrollment: Can California Turn it Around?
After community college enrollment collapsed in late 2020, California lawmakers last year gave the system of public two-year colleges $120 million to help stem the tide of departing students and bring them back. So far, progress has been uneven. Through last fall, just 17 of California’s 116 community colleges have seen the number of students […]
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HSU Preliminary Enrollment Numbers Look Stronger Than Expected
Humboldt State University’s preliminary fall enrollment numbers look better than what was expected states a release from the university. The university was expected to have a 20 percent decline in student enrollment due to recent trends and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic but, as of the first week of classes, 6,471 students are enrolled […]
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Covered California Extends Special Open Enrollment Deadline
Covered California announced that Californians without health insurance can still sign up for health care coverage through the service until the end of July. The current special-enrollment period is due to the COVID-19 pandemic and according to the press release, the most recent data shows that 175,030 people signed up for health care coverage between […]
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Civil Grand Jury Finds SoHum School District Lacks Vision, Plan Amid Budget Crisis
The Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury released a report yesterday detailing the hefty challenges facing Southern Humboldt Unified School District, from mountain budget shortfalls to a lack of stable leadership. The report, prompted by an apparent laundry list of complaints from families and staff in the district, details how declining enrollment, the formation of a […]
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Seeking Students
Being offered a Humboldt First Scholarship is an experience in and of itself. Humboldt State University Vice President of Enrollment Management Jason Meriwether, President Tom Jackson Jr. and Lucky the Logger, HSU’s mascot, visit local high schools and offer seniors a $4,000 scholarship in an event carefully tailored to feel like a graduation ceremony. After […]