Constance Duffle, a paramedic in Siskiyou County at the Oregon border, serves a vast wilderness region woefully in need of health professionals. She has enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program in paramedicine, newly offered at College of the Siskiyous. A degree offers pathways to a raise, improved service to her community and opportunities to train future paramedics. Without this close-to-home education, there would be “no way” she could work a full-time job and care for her children, Duffle said. “I went through medic school before I was married, before I had kids,” Duffle said. If the program had been available to her then, she would have pursued it “in a heartbeat.” Duffle’s experience is a promising story in the state’s five-year-old higher education venture that has allowed community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees. But as the degree programs have grown in popularity, disagreements continue to emerge between California State University and California Community Colleges as competition for students tightens. In the latest stress point, CSU has objected to 16 community college degree proposals, contending that …