Thousands of Cal State Students Protest Proposed Budget Cuts, Los Angeles Times
Thousands of California State University students and faculty protested proposed budget cuts during a lunchtime rally Monday outside the governor's downtown Los Angeles office.

Students protest planned education cuts, North County Times
About 1,000 students from across San Diego County took to the streets Monday to demand affordable public higher education in California.

9% CSU budget cut protested, Long Beach Press-Telegram/AP
Hundreds of students and faculty gathered outside Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's downtown offices Monday to protest looming budget cuts that could force the California State University campuses to raise fees and slash enrollment.

CSUH still welcoming applicants, Hayward Review
Students urged to apply soon to ensure slot for fall quarter.

Frustrated college students take to streets, San Diego Union-Tribune
They urge Schwarzenegger to shield them from cuts.

CSUN's Jolene Koester honored, Los Angeles Daily News
Jolene Koester, president of California State University, Northridge, received the Pioneer Woman Award from the Los Angeles City Council and the city's Commission on the Status of Women as part of National Women's History Month.

HSU recycling in jeopardy, Eureka Times-Standard
Two weeks after cuts to Humboldt State University's Plant Operations department were announced, the future of the campus recycling program is still up in the air.

HSU students overwhelmingly pass energy initiative, Eureka Times-Standard
Humboldt State University may be off the main energy grid by 2043.

SSU staff may face unpaid furloughs, Press-Democrat
Proposal could save $1.8 million next year; faculty wary, say students would suffer.

UCLA Uses New Software to Block Online Piracy, and the Movie Industry Applauds, Chronicle of Higher Education
In a hard-nosed approach to online piracy, the University of California at Los Angeles has begun using new software that disconnects from the campus network students accused of trading copyrighted songs or movies -- and reinstates the users only after they delete the offending files.

UC grad gives $1 million for East Asian center, Oakland Tribune
A Silicon Valley businessman has donated $1 million to support a center for East Asian studies at University of California, Berkeley.

Panel of experts debates UC's role in managing national laboratories, Hayward Review
As the University of California's grip on its national laboratories faces its first challenge, a panel of experts this week tackled the thorny question at the heart of the UC's decades-old stewardship of the labs: Does the creation of nuclear weapons fall within the mission of a public institution committed to educating students and fostering academic pursuits?

Good news for UC project, Modesto Bee
The nonpartisan state Legislative Analyst's Office has reversed its position against the University of California at Merced, agreeing instead that lawmakers should support a funding increase to open the campus in fall 2005.

Palomar College's leadership search challenged, San Diego Union-Tribune
A mystery person will appear before Palomar College's governing board Tuesday to interview for the job of interim president/superintendent.

Ohlone reaches out to Latino students, Tri-Valley Herald
College president wants ethnic group's enrollment doubled.

Prosecutors file fraud charges against professor, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Prosecutors charged a Claremont McKenna College professor Monday with filing a false report and insurance fraud in connection with her report of her car being vandalized and spray painted with hate messages.

Report Blasts Santa Ana Schools, Los Angeles Times
O.C. Grand Jury criticizes continued focus on bilingual teaching. District officials deny they're ignoring state law.

Craving a Taste of Their Heritage, Washington Post
African Americans Find Sense of Belonging in Semester at Howard.

Colleges encourage students to stay on four-year track, Christian Science Monitor
The number of college students who now take more than the standard four years to graduate has been steadily climbing - and that includes motivated students who once were likely to march through school on schedule.

Poll finds split on educational equality, USA Today
Nearly 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed separate schools for black and white students, most Americans now believe that blacks have better educational opportunities.

Committee Urges Harvard to Expand the Reach of Its Undergraduate Curriculum, New York Times
For the first time in 30 years, Harvard University has reviewed its undergraduate curriculum, concluding that students need more room for broad exploration, a greater familiarity with the world that can only be gained from study abroad, and a deeper, hands-on understanding of science.

Plan Addresses Lenders' Profits on Student Aid, New York Times
House Republicans say they will propose legislation requiring lenders that handle student loans to hand over excessive profits to the government, part of what they describe as an overhaul of the nation's financial aid system aimed at redirecting billions of dollars.

Editorial: College transit, Sacramento Bee
Deal aids students, RT.

Dan Walters: Schwarzenegger cutting deals to shrink state budget gap, Sacramento Bee
Schwarzenegger is playing "Let's Make a Deal" with unions, Indian tribes, local governments and others in hopes of paring down the state's enormous budget deficit and, perhaps, avoiding new taxes.

Daniel Weintraub: Housing subsidies might be forcing prices higher, Sacramento Bee
California suffers from a housing paradox. Home prices keep rising, seemingly setting new records every month. But more and more people who want houses can't afford to buy one. The laws of economics suggest that this condition should not long endure.

Letters to the Editor, Modesto Bee
Dedicated to education at CSUS [Stanislaus student].

Letters to the Editor, Modesto Bee
Article downplays honesty.

Editorial: Budget cuts an education, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
State budget cuts don't happen in a vacuum; they have real- world consequences. California college students received a clear lesson in that, as the state university system cuts back on freshman enrollment.

Schools' credit outlook shaky, Contra Costa Times
Standard & Poor's warned Monday that school districts across the country could see their credit ratings drop because of state budget problems.

Tax amnesty reels in $1 billion, San Jose Mercury-News
Californians who dodged taxes by hiding their money in questionable tax shelters have coughed up more than $1 billion under the state's just-ended amnesty -- shattering national records.

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