Community colleges in cash-strapped California will be getting a boost.
The San Francisco-based Bernard Osher Foundations has pledged up to $50 million to help needy students at California community colleges in what is believed to be the largest gift ever donated to the nation’s two-year institutions.
Mary Bitterman, the foundation’s president, said:
“The more we have focused on the needs of California, we have really begun to look at the critical role community colleges play. What you read about is David Rockefeller giving $100 million to Harvard. Our trustees decided that we would really like to help community college students.”
Love that.
