Hotline: Newsom Signs Law Creating California AANHPI College Designation After Federal Cuts
OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates noted that federal grants were intended to address socioeconomic educational gaps, not enforce racial or ethnic quotas, in a story about California’s new AANHPI-Serving Institution designation, created after the federal government ended funding for several minority-serving institution programs. Read the full story here (published October 1, 2026).