Cal State SB president covers big plans, San Bernardino Sun
In his annual university convocation Thursday, Cal State San Bernardino President Albert K. Karnig warned of continued budget woes but assured faculty and staff members that the university has a lot to celebrate.

Freshmen applicants soar at university, Press-Enterprise
There is an increase of 1,200, or 24 percent, for the fall.

CSUCI gets grant for faith-related domestic violence project, Ventura County Star
[California] State University, Channel Islands, has received a grant of $596,500 from the state Department of Health Services for 21/2 years to implement the Faith Leaders and Domestic Violence Project.

Cal State pays the way for top students, Press-Enterprise
Top-ranking high school graduates are giving Cal State San Bernardino a fresh look, and some an only look, as rising tuition fees price many out of the more prestigious universities that try to recruit them.

CSUSM professor works to highlight workers' plight, North County Times
The plight of undocumented workers has been a lifelong passion for Cal State San Marcos Professor David Avalos, and the issue has made its way into many of the artist's controversial works during his decades-long career.

Panelists picking new CSUSM prez say meeting went well, North County Times
Mum was the word Friday as an advisory panel working to find the next president for Cal State San Marcos met on the campus to sift through applicants' credentials.

San Marcos will cap spring enrollment, San Diego Union-Tribune
Campus won't admit lower-division students.

Biosafety Lab Would Imperil City of Davis, Some Contend, Los Angeles Times
Soon residents will know if UC Davis will be awarded the $200-million National Biocontainment Laboratory, where researchers will study diseases and pathogens such as plague, anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease and West Nile virus.

Recall may decide future of UC Merced, Turlock Journal
Some have called it a boondoggle and a misuse of state funds. Others have touted the project as an economic boon and a momentous boost for residents of the Central Valley.

A 'living-learning' college, San Diego Union-Tribune
Students move onto new UCSD campus.

Promoting Study of Islam, San Jose Mercury-News
Stanford University has received $9 million to endow a program and professorship in Islamic studies -- gifts that could position the school to become a powerhouse in the study of the world's second-largest faith.

Schooled on growth, Orange County Register
Chapman University applies lesson from controversy over chapel: Expansion has to make grade with Orange residents.

AmeriCorps Supporters Expect Cuts as Congress Drops Proposal to Provide Extra Funds This Year, Chronicle of Higher Education
Congress declined last week to include a $100-million emergency appropriation for AmeriCorps, the national-service program that helps some students pay for college, in a supplemental spending bill for the current fiscal year.

Some teachers shun retirement, return to class, CNN
Florida lawmakers during the spring gave hundreds of teachers another chance to remain in the classroom and keep their extra retirement benefits. The Legislature, which desperately needed to find more teachers because of class size limits approved by voters last fall, allowed school districts to extend the state's Deferred Retirement Option Program, or DROP, for another three years.

Colleges Ease Way For Teachers to Get Advanced Degrees, Wall St. Journal
With Higher Pay Automatic, Many Seek Out Programs With Five Courses in Five Weeks.

Academic Pork Barrel Tops $2-Billion for the First Time, Chronicle of Higher Education
Although it faced soaring demands on federal spending and a burgeoning budget deficit, Congress still directed more than $2-billion this year to pork-barrel projects at colleges and universities.

College Endowments Resumed Upward Climb in 2002-3, Study Finds, Chronicle of Higher Education
A year after the investments of most higher-education endowments lost money, colleges and universities are back in the black.

Labor Strife Goes to College, New York Times
What makes labor issues at college campuses often more compelling than those in the corporate world is the notion that parity for workers probably should figure somewhere in the philosophies of higher education.

Group Steers More Students to, and Through, College, Washington Post
District Program Provides Advice And Tuition Aid.

Law Schools Seek to Regain Ability to Bar Military Recruiters, New York Times
An organization of law schools and a group representing hundreds of legal scholars sued the Department of Defense and five other federal agencies yesterday, seeking to help universities and colleges that want to keep military recruiters off their campuses.

Federal Jury Orders U. of Colorado to Pay $600,000 to Professor It Dismissed, Chronicle of Higher Education
A federal jury in Denver last week awarded $600,000 to a former University of Colorado psychiatry professor who said that he had been "illegally fired" by the chancellor of the university's Health Sciences Center.

Opinion: Colleges Caught in a Vise, New York Times
If the revenues sustaining your operation are sharply cut and you are prevented by law from raising prices, your only recourse is to offer an inferior product.

Opinion: Testing Handicaps, New York Times Magazine
SAT scores are up again, to their highest average since 1974. And no one's happy.

Daniel Weintraub: What's not to like about unfettered guv debate?, Sacramento Bee
A debate scheduled for Wednesday night among all the major candidates running for governor is getting pummeled by purveyors of conventional wisdom because its sponsors have released the questions to the public and the candidates in advance.

Editorial: Keep incubating, Sacramento Bee
What the University of California Regents began contemplating this week is so grim it is almost surreal, and it ought to serve as a warning to us all about just how bad things may get in California unless the Legislature finds the two-thirds vote for a tax increase.

Dan Walters: Memo to candidates -- Don't copy Davis' failed budget approach, Sacramento Bee
The state budget is a massive and off-putting document, to be certain, but understanding its essential elements -- the extent of revenues, the scope of expenditures and the irritating gap between the two -- is not rocket science.

Dan Walters: Legislature justifies low standing among state's voters, Sacramento Bee
Gov. Gray Davis may be the most unpopular California governor since polls began charting such things and facing a historic recall election, but surveys have found that the Legislature has an even lower public standing.

Editorial: An unfair measure, San Diego Union-Tribune
Don't waive community college fees

George Skelton: Make No Mistake -- Sloppy Errors Shake Faith in Court's Judgment, Los Angeles Times
Look, I'm no lawyer, let alone a constitutional scholar. But you don't need a JD degree to recognize simple errors of fact in that court opinion ordering a delay in the recall election.

Opinion: Should Our Leaders Be Amateurs?, Washington Post
Davis swept both the primary and the general election and, in his early years, delivered exactly what he promised, which included some education reform and a lot of moderation. As long as the economic boom continued, the voters, while never in love with Davis, liked him just fine.

Federal judges to reconsider recall delay, CNN
Panel had postponed October 7 vote.

Bills offer immigrant privileges, Sacramento Bee
Gov. Gray Davis is poised to decide on two controversial measures that could give illegal residents more rights.

Liberty in the balance: Librarians step up, Sacramento Bee
Tucked behind the circulation desk at the library on the campus of California State University, Sacramento, there is a simple red binder labeled "Search Warrant Procedures."

Format emerges as debate's first issue, Sacramento Bee
Arnold Schwarzenegger calls it the "Super Bowl" of debates leading up to California's recall election and the only one worthy of his participation.

Davis' gains in education appear mixed, San Diego Union-Tribune
Test scores have risen, but funding still an issue.

Davis faces stacks of bills, Los Angeles Daily News
As he fights for his political life, Gov. Gray Davis has more than 500 bills awaiting his signature or veto -- creating a high-stakes situation with regard to winning or losing campaign dollars and recall votes.

His Passion Is Purely Fiscal, Los Angeles Times
For 20 years, the object of Tom McClintock's desire has been a thrifty state government. The quest has tied his life to the capital he scorns.

Various Legal, Political Factors Can Sway Court, Los Angeles Times
Public opinion and ideology play roles as judges decide a case. Many observers think 9th Circuit will restore Oct. 7 as election date.

Calif. Voters' Support for Davis Shifts, Washington Post
Poll Shows Majority Favor Recall Even as Fewer Express Desire to Oust Governor.

Schwarzenegger is driven to succeed, Sacramento Bee
Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't old enough to drink liquor or vote. But he already knew what he wanted to do and what it would take to become the world's best-known bodybuilder, a wealthy businessman and one of Hollywood's biggest stars.

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