Mikhail Zinshteyn
Freelance WriterMikhail Zinshteyn has been a higher education reporter since 2015. As a freelancer, he contributed to The Atlantic, The Hechinger Report, Inside Higher Ed and The 74. Previously, he was a reporter at EdSource and before that a program manager at the Education Writers Association. Mikhail was born in the Soviet Union and has a master's degree in comparative politics from the London School of Economics. He is based in Los Angeles. Pell grants and work-study helped pay for his undergraduate degree at Union College.
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A new federal student aid application is blocking some students from completing their forms. Now California legislators are trying to extend the deadline for state student aid. -
The proposal would have meant challenging a federal law that bars employers from hiring undocumented immigrants. Advocates requesting the change argue that the University of California, as a state agency, is exempt from that law. -
After several high-profile sexual harassment cases, Cal State needs more training, staff and outreach to students and employees, an outside firm concludes. -
A new analysis shows that the California State University system doesn’t make or receive enough money to cover its costs, even with state support. The report and lawmakers urge the system to increase tuition, but even that might not be enough. -
Enrollment is down at the University of California and the Cal State, which has frustrated lawmakers who gave both systems more money to increase their number of students. -
A last-minute bill would force Cal State to give non-faculty staff raises, costing the system almost $900 million over ten years, money the system says it doesn’t have. Cal State may cut programs and raise tuition if it doesn’t get enough state money. -
The way the Cal State system presents graduation rates obscures how the system is failing its Black students. -
The Cal State system pointed out this week that current plans to expand the Cal Grant, California’s chief financial aid tool for students, would leave out more middle-class students in the future. -
At this weeks Regents meeting, the University of California moved closer to a goal of having students avoid burdensome student loans by 2030. -
Cal State joined the University of California in ending its use of an admissions test for freshmen. Now the system is creating a new set of eligibility criteria, the first change since 1965.
