Bill that would allow CAC to offer 4-year degrees gets new life
by Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
Central Arizona College has its best chance ever of finally being able to offer four-year degrees to its students.
With only three dissenting votes, the state House voted Monday to permit Arizona community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees to students. The measure now goes to the Senate.
If ultimately successful, the move would cap years of efforts by advocates to find alternatives to what some consider to be both expensive and inconvenient programs for residents to get four-year degrees at one of the state’s three universities. Similar measures have faltered for at least the last quarter century amid stiff opposition from members of the Arizona Board of Regents who have argued there is no need.
