Chico State prof named to board of trustees, Chico Enterprise-Record
A veteran professor at Chico State University has been named to the California State University board of trustees. Kathy Kaiser, a professor of sociology since 1972, was appointed to the board Friday by Gov. Gray Davis.

Building college confidence, San Diego Union-Tribune
Federal program helps farmworkers' children adjust to life at CSUSM.

Shared goals, shared building, San Jose Mercury-News
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library opened Aug. 1, six years after former mayor Susan Hammer and ex-San Jose State University president Robert Caret brainstormed the idea over breakfast. By teaming up, they reasoned, they could build the kind of landmark building neither could afford alone.

Building is efficient but boring, San Jose Mercury-News
A wonderful gift in a bad package -- that's what the new library presents San Jose.

Building unites campus, downtown, San Jose Mercury-News
Visitors to the 8th floor of the joint San Jose City-San Jose State University library are treated to a wide vista of views of Silicon Valley.

Teacher academy makes grade, Daily Breeze
Prep program at Harbor College that offers high school and college classes gets good marks in its first year.

The Carson Show, Los Angeles Times
The Home Depot Center has been open a little more than two months but has already become the three-ring sports circus planners envisioned.

Cal State Hayward seeks Iraq education contract, San Francisco Chronicle
California State University at Hayward wants to lead the first wave of American universities helping Iraq as part of a government program aimed at rejuvenating the American-occupied country's higher education system.

Download warning 101, San Francisco Chronicle
Freshman orientation this fall to include record industry warnings against file sharing.

UC Merced dean toils amid delay, Fresno Bee
Dean Kenji Hakuta is working to build UC Merced's Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts under a relaxed deadline he wishes had held firm.

Group raises funds to replace campus trees, Hayward Review
Budget crunch takes away money to keep woody heritage.

Stanford extends holiday to save cash, Contra Costa Times/Mercury News
Hoping to lop away at a $19 million budget deficit, Stanford University has told its workers they'll be home for Christmas. And New Year's too.

Cuts crush college promise, Sacramento Bee
It was a bold promise that became a model for the rest of the nation: Any Californian who wanted a college education could have one. Money, social background and geography were not to be barriers.

Colleges on SARS alert, Daily Bulletin
Claremont schools to quiz students on possible exposure.

Task Tough for Ambitious Schools Chief, Los Angeles Times
Scores are up at half of Pasadena's campuses. But two years into the job, the superintendent finds the going slow.

$4 million will ease college district's woes, Ventura County Star
A $4 million windfall should ease the Ventura County Community College District's budget woes, allowing classified employees to return to 40-hour work weeks and eliminating the need for a salary rollback for faculty members.

Poll: College affirmative action will end, USA Today/AP
Most Americans agree that in 25 years, colleges and universities should no longer need to look at an applicant's race to make sure there is racial and ethnic diversity on campus, a new poll finds.

Courts Weighing Rights of States to Curb Aid for Religion Majors, New York Times
Eleven states prohibit aid for the study of theology. In addition to Michigan and Washington, they are New York, New Jersey, Alabama, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

Professors With a Past, New York Times
Mr. Richards is a self-described "convict criminologist," one of a small, tightly knit group of ex-convict professors who are shaking up the criminal justice field by challenging some of the academic establishment's assumptions about prisons and inmates.

Two Colleges May Keep Data From Record Industry, Wall St. Journal
The recording industry has hit another in a string of procedural obstacles as it prepares to launch a massive legal attack against music piracy on the Internet.

Experimental Test, Given With SAT, Seeks to Increase Fairness of Admissions Process, Chronicle of Higher Education
A new experimental college-admissions test appears to augment the SAT's ability to predict college students' first-year grade point averages.

A Common Yardstick?, Chronicle of Higher Education
The Bush administration wants to standardize accreditation; educators say it is too complex for that.

Unfair Advantage?, Chronicle of Higher Education
Elite private colleges say they will fight to protect federal aid that other institutions want for needy students.

Editorial: No admittance, Press-Democrat
Impact on state universities symptomatic of hardships ahead.

Editorial: Library's rich potential, San Jose Mercury-News
The doors that lead from the new King Library to San Jose State University's commons, with its signature Tower Hall and fountain, represent the dream of transforming the school into a metropolitan university.

Opinion: The Perils of Cutbacks in Higher Education, New York Times
The e-mail message from the chancellor warned David Card that if the California Legislature failed to adopt a budget by Sept. 1, his salary, and those of all the other tenured professors at the University of California at Berkeley, would shrink to the minimum wage.

Daniel Weintraub: The recall election's big question: Who will vote?, Sacramento Bee
The recall campaign now underway will really be several campaigns in one. Each will operate in its sphere but will also overlap with the others at times. Following it all, and analyzing it, will be extremely tricky.

Daniel Weintraub: Cozy state pension deal costs taxpayers billions, Sacramento Bee
The legislation began a wave of public employee pension increases at a time when private sector employees were seeing their own retirement benefits shrink or disappear entirely.

Dan Walters: Davis' risk-averse approach puts him in riskiest dilemma, Sacramento Bee
As he climbed California's political ladder, rung by rung, over nearly three decades, Gray Davis studiously avoided saying or doing anything that would alienate a significant voter bloc.

Dan Walters: Davis' version of budget crisis doesn't square with history, Sacramento Bee
The state's immense -- and still unresolved -- budget crisis has spawned, among other things, creative efforts to rewrite history.

George Skelton: Schwarzenegger and Reagan: a Comparison, Los Angeles Times
Arnold Schwarzenegger is no Ronald Reagan. Sure, there are resemblances. But in some ways, Arnold has more going for him. In others, he just doesn't match up to the "Gipper."

Opinion: Great state of California evolves into state of chaos, Fresno Bee
The delirium that now marks the California recall election will turn to sobering reality for the eventual winner.

Opinion: Who Pays for the Growing Cost of Science?, Chronicle of Higher Education
Scientific research has become increasingly important to many American universities as scientists and engineers make advances of great significance to our society.

Election May Signal a New Era of Governing, Los Angeles Times
From out of the chaos there will be benefits for the state's voters, some observers believe.

Officials Warn of Turmoil on Election Night, Los Angeles Times
The list of candidates gets longer and still has not been set. Worries arise about whether balloting equipment will be up to the test.

Racial initiative ignites medical worries, San Francisco Chronicle
Researchers are sounding alarms over the potential health effects of Proposition 54 -- the initiative to ban state government from collecting racial or ethnic data -- fearing it will jeopardize efforts to pinpoint cancer hot spots, keep tabs on disease outbreaks and fashion effective health messages.

Prop. 53, recall will share ballot, Sacramento Bee
A plan to guarantee infrastructure funds risks getting lost in the election shuffle.