“Vision 2030 reexamines what access means when we lead with equity. We are the largest system of higher education in the nation, serving 1.9 million students and yet 6.8 million Californians who graduated high school have not completed a college credential. This group is highly racialized, disproportionately likely to be low-income and struggle to find gainful employment. Vision 2030 asks the fundamental question – why have we not yet reached these individuals?”

Vision 2030: A Roadmap for California Community Colleges is a future looking plan, charting a new frontier for our system, while addressing current challenges. Building on the foundation of the Vision for Success (2017) and the governor’s “Multi-Year Roadmap” (2022), Vision 2030 reintroduces the importance of equitable access, support and success while bringing to the forefront equitable socio-economic mobility for historically underserved communities by proactively taking college to them wherever they are: we are no longer waiting for students to come to us. The strategies are multi-pronged and include expanding equitable dual enrollment pathways to high school students, offering credit for prior learning to veterans and working adults through employers and worker represented associations, working through community based organizations to bring workforce training to low-income adults, and providing instruction through flexible modalities, like short term and online classes, for all students.

Vision 2030 aims to increase attainment among California community colleges’ existing 1.9 million students but also prioritizes postsecondary attainment for the 6.8 million Californians between the ages of 25 and 54 who have a high school diploma but no postsecondary credential.

Further, Vision 2030 emphasizes a learner-centered equity path to:

• Implement strategies outlined in the system’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Plan, including policies to diversify faculty and staff and deliver inclusive instruction and student supports.
• Preserve and scale up equity-centered programs.
• Use data disaggregated by income, race/ethnicity and age to monitor progress and continuously improve outcomes and our reach.

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