He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Cal Poly Pomona. Brulte said the colleges play a great role as transition institutions for students who aren't yet ready for universities. He's recommended to countless students that they spend their first year at a community college. It's a great opportunity. I just wish more of my colleagues here had been a part of it.
Many state senators have no personal community college experience.
Brulte, who was elected to the Assembly in 1990, and to the Senate in 1996, noted that he is the youngest Republican in the Senate, and he left community college about 20 years ago. Most people here went to some kind of university. A large part of the population has been through the K-12 system or have children in it. And everyone's heard of the state universities. They have a structural disadvantage that makes it difficult to get their story out in a meaningful way.