Proposed by Senate President Pro-Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, as a way to help students get the courses they need to graduate on time, SB 520 would have created a pool of online classes that would be accepted for credit at any public college or university in California — including some created by unaccredited online education companies such as Coursera.
Though announced with much fanfare this spring, Steinberg’s legislation has been put on hold until next year.
“This bill has prompted a real debate, and now we have the segments coming out with their plans,” said Rhys Williams, a spokesman for Steinberg. The senator is “waiting to see how the plans develop,” he said.
But it was the promise of additional state funding, not pending legislation, that set CSU’s latest online initiatives in motion, Uhlenkamp said. It was hard for the system to find the money for such projects during the state budget crisis, he said, “when the reality was we needed to keep the doors open and the lights on.”
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