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EdSource: How California community colleges are using AI to battle financial aid fraud
"About 80 of the state's 115 community colleges are now or will soon be using" LightLeapAI
EdSource details how an AI model first trained on Foothill-De Anza's historical enrollment data — looking at device fingerprints, IP addresses, time zones, ages, and cross-institution phone-number matches — has spread across California, with the Coast Community College District reporting a roughly 96% reduction in enrollment fraud after deployment ahead of Spring 2025.
The piece traces the lineage of the platform from a February 2024 contract worth $56,250 between Foothill-De Anza and N2N Services (originally for course prediction) into the systemwide adoption that the Chancellor's Office subsidized starting July 1, 2025.
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