Chronicle of Higher Education: California community colleges struggle to stop enrollment scams
A long-form look at the bot problem in California's community colleges
In a May 2025 cover story by Beth McMurtrie, The Chronicle of Higher Education documents the operational toll of fraud rings on California faculty and administrators — and identifies LightLeapAI, developed by N2N Services, as the fraud-detection platform deployed at 42 community colleges (most in California) at the time of publication.
The piece quotes N2N CEO Kiran Kodithala on the inefficiency of manual fraud detection:
"Institutions, they're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to do silly things — like, they took out every application and they go to Google Maps to see if that's really a home. It's an extremely cost-prohibitive, extremely inefficient process, and that's not helping."
It also cites the company's finding that nearly 36% of more than 735,000 applications flowing into 36 LightLeapAI-protected colleges during the 2024-25 academic year were fraudulent — after CCCApply's own screening.
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