Vision 2030 focuses on the students and future learners impacted by increasing income inequality and poverty.

These include veterans, people with low incomes, K-12 dual-enrollment students, foster youth, and students who are justice involved or justice impacted.

Honoring their service

Community colleges are key to supporting student veterans as they transition to civilian life, including offering credit for prior learning.

Investing in access

Community colleges can harness the untapped potential of millions of adults — particularly in communities of color — who earn or come from families with low incomes by partnering with community organizations to deliver workforce training.

Recognizing responsibility

Community colleges can support students with work commitments by providing instruction through flexible modalities, such as short-term and online classes.

Ensuring equity

Community colleges are key to enhancing employment opportunities and boosting incomes among students who are justice involved or justice impacted. Using education to empower those who have been incarcerated will help address racial disparities among the prison population and redirect the criminal justice system toward restoration.

Offering early support

Community colleges can help high school students get a head start on their career journeys through dual enrollment. This allows students to earn credits by taking college courses or participating in vocational training before they graduate.

Dual-enrollment opportunities have not always been accessible to everyone. By tailoring these to students who are historically underrepresented, community colleges can help all high school students envision — and work toward — a career of their choice. This approach provides students with the agency to chart their own future.

Overcoming barriers

Community colleges play a key role in closing equity gaps by focusing resources to ensure that foster youth continue their education journeys and thrive.

California Community Colleges is the largest system of higher education in the nation, yet millions more Californians still graduate high school without a college credential.
Vision 2030 pursues transformational change to ensure institutions work for our students and introduces equitable access to support future learners — especially the nearly 7 million adults with lower incomes — through college
Focusing on these groups — and encouraging their potential — will foster California’s economic competitiveness and benefit the nation.
California’s students — whether current or aspiring — cannot wait for legislation to be implemented at scale and state and federal investments to be rolled out. They need us to act now.

The difference we'll make

When we work collaboratively to advance the Vision 2030 priorities, we’ll create a higher education experience that is more inclusive of all Californians that ensures access points for every learner across race, ethnicity, religion, class and gender to enter a pathway with tailored supports and exit points to transfer, complete a community college baccalaureate degree or obtain a job with family-sustaining wages.