Campus Points to Diversity, Los Angeles Times
Cal State Channel Islands has taken significant steps to promote cultural diversity after being hit by charges that it is not doing enough, college President Richard Rush told Latino leaders Friday.

Confidentiality urged as search for CSUSM leader begins, North County Times
Pleading for secrecy, the head of the panel selecting a new president for Cal State San Marcos met Friday with a local advisory group and said a guarantee of confidentiality will be necessary to attract a top pool of applicants.

Cal State Campus Plans Solar Electricity System , Los Angeles Times
One of the largest solar electricity systems will be constructed at the Cal State Hayward
campus this summer, according to California State University authorities

Skyrocketing UC, CSU fees seen, San Francisco Chronicle
California's public universities are making plans for dramatic tuition increases because of new budget-cut proposals circulating in the state Legislature -- even greater than the 25 percent fee hike they were ready to approve next week.

UC, CSU fees may go even higher, Oakland Tribune
Unsettled state budget forces trustees to delay vote on 25% hike.
The news keeps getting worse for California's public university students.

CSUS president's retiring -- but not snoozing, Sacramento Bee
On a recent Thursday, President Donald Gerth scattered stacks of paper across the floor of his office at California State University, Sacramento. He retires in July after 19 years at the helm of CSUS. He's watched the university increase in enrollment, size and stature. But, packing already? Not yet. He's as busy as ever.

UC, CSU May Impose Even Larger Fee Hikes, Los Angeles Times
Leaders of California's two state university systems, who were set to approve education fee increases topping 20% next week, withdrew those proposals Friday because they said they might need to impose even bigger hikes.

CSU, UC delay vote on raising student fees, but not for long, Union Tribune
Hinting at additional unanticipated fee increases, California's public universities yesterday delayed a vote to raise student fees, saying the governor's revised budget expected Wednesday makes further cuts a definite possibility.

CSUCI, county discuss report on fire safety, Ventura County Star
A week after the Ventura County Grand Jury released a scathing report on fire safety at California State University, Channel Islands, university and county officials met to begin addressing the concerns raised in the report.

Racial data ban fight considered, Contra Costa Times
The University of California regents will consider taking the unusual step of passing a resolution to oppose a statewide ballot measure championed by one of their own: Ward Connerly's effort to bar the state from collecting racial data.

UC Berkeley Modifies SARS Ban to Allow More Students, Los Angeles Times
Six days after announcing a ban on students from SARS-affected countries attending summer classes at UC Berkeley, university officials announced Saturday that they will ease the ban and open the school to about 80 students from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Academic Debate: Should UC Keep Its Labs?, San Francisco Chronicle
The University of California has run the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the nuclear weapons laboratory that developed the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, since it was established in 1943.

Stanford Bans Drinking in Frosh Dorms, Los Angeles Times
Alarmed by what it said was an increasing rate of alcohol-induced emergencies, Stanford University has banned alcohol from events held in the school's freshman dorms.

'A Nation at Risk' at 20 - fixing America's public schools, San Diego Union-Tribune
Twenty years ago, a national commission published the most incendiary federal report in the history of American school reform. To this day, educators, elected officials, business leaders and parents are wrestling with the arguments ignited by "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform."

Cutting college managers opposed, Sacramento Bee
The governor of Massachusetts recently rocked that state's higher education community with a brash cost-cutting proposal: dismantle the University of Massachusetts system's Office of the President and save millions each year.

Study Abroad Means SARS Fear at Home, New York Times
The situation at this insular, highly selective school tucked into farmland about 40 miles south of the Twin Cities is emblematic of how American campuses, increasingly internationalized with the influx of foreign students and the proliferation of study-abroad programs, have forged a front line in the fight against severe acute respiratory
syndrome.

State Lawmakers Spare President of University of Massachusetts System, Chronicle of Higher Education
Key leaders of the Massachusetts House of Representatives used a procedural maneuver on Thursday to block a vote on Gov. Mitt Romney's proposal to eliminate the state university system's central office and the president's job.

State employees balk at pay cuts as layoffs loom, Sacramento Bee
When things got so bad recently at American and United airlines that their very futures were threatened, tens of thousands of union employees at each company voted to absorb deep cuts in pay and benefits so the carriers could keep flying. Don't expect state workers to follow suit just because California is trying to close a nearly $35 billion budget deficit.

Union Targets Inmates' College Program, Los Angeles Times
California's powerful prison guards union is trying to kill one of only two programs in the state allowing inmates to earn college degrees, angering advocates who say that educating felons prevents many of them from committing crimes after their release.

Editorial: Money for schools, Sacramento Bee
Voters in the Irvine Unified School District looked at what the state's budget mess was doing to their schools and just said no. They taxed themselves this week, raising $3.3 million for the upkeep of school playing fields.

Editorial: The After-School Puzzle, Los Angeles Times
Contrary to the findings of previous studies that credited enriched after-school care with everything from keeping kids safe to improving their test scores, the report by Mathematica Policy Research found that the $1-billion 21st Century Community Learning Centers provided few educational benefits and did not reduce the number of latchkey children.