SB 291

The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges wishes to express its support for SB 291 (Leyva, as of 1 March 2019), which would “establish the California Community College Student Financial Aid Program, to provide need-based grant awards to eligible community college students who attend an eligible California community college, as specified,” if the bill is amended to ensure that the Student Aid Commission provides the oversight of financial aid. This position represents the collective judgment of the 60,000 faculty in the California Community Colleges system as expressed at our organization’s 2019 Spring Plenary Session through Resolution 6.03 SP19 (https://www.asccc.org/resolutions/provisionally-supportsb-291-leyva-march-1-2019).