We wrote a guide to higher education in California in Spanish, Chinese, and Korean — and you should take it

The homepage of our guide, “How To Get To College In California,” in Spanish.

For the past year, KPCC/LAist’s College Pathways team has been figuring out how to help people navigate their choices in higher education and careers. What kind of programs will actually pay off? How do you juggle a college education with a full-time job, or caring for young children? What are all the possible ways to get a tuition-free education in California? In September, we published a guide that addresses a LOT of these questions: How To Get To College In California.

Now, that guide is also available in Spanish, simplified Chinese, and Korean — and these guides are free and available for anyone to republish. Take our stories!

Understanding the higher education landscape is overwhelming and confusing, and reliable information is particularly hard to come by if you’re not a native English speaker. In the past year since we began the College Pathways beat, we heard stories of education scams targeted at non-English speakers, immigrants not knowing whether they had to restart their education in the U.S., students not being able to get help from their parents because of language barriers, and a lot more.

This series is about more than the mechanics of filling out financial aid forms or preparing applications — it’s also about how to think about the millions of choices that come with pursuing higher education. We wrote with many of our question-askers in mind — people changing careers, students going back to school after a long hiatus, recent immigrants, parents of young children, and others who may be thinking about higher education but who don’t necessarily have a lot of guidance tailored to their situations.

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