Athletics, Abortion, the Admissions Scandal — New Calif. Laws Take Aim at Higher-Ed Policy. Why?

You can find a CliffsNotes on hot-button campus issues in a perhaps unexpected package: California’s newest laws. Landmark higher-education laws passed by the state this year ran the gamut. Pay for athletes’ images. Admissions advantages. Work-force development. So many bills came through the higher-education committee that Assemblyman Jose Medina said he had to ask, for the first time in roughly five years as chair, for more staff.