Cal State Hayward near top of class, Hayward Review
Princeton Review rates university among its 'Best in the West'

Problems keep building for San Jose State athletics, San Jose Mercury-News
Any fan of San Jose State University sports has known happier days. The football team has trouble attracting fans to Spartan Stadium. The athletic department has chronic money woes. The academic senate wants to kill football. And now, coaches are having problems admitting students with scholarships.

Old Fire: Cal State workers to be honored, Press Enterprise
Their hands are stained with grease from repairing leaky pipes or boilers. But on Oct. 26, 2003, Cal State San Bernardino maintenance workers looked as if they had climbed out of a West Virginia mine. Nine employees, their faces blackened by soot, brandished fire hoses to push back the Old Fire that threatened the foothill campus from three sides.

Health Dept., UCSF talk hospital merger, San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Health Department and UCSF have quietly re-started talks about the possibility of building a shared hospital complex at the up- and-coming Mission Bay development in the city's South of Market, city and university officials have told The Chronicle.

UC late-admission offers come under fire, Oakland Tribune
Assemblyman Joe Simitian has called for a legislative audit of the way University of California handled thousands of last-minute admissions offers extended this year to students who were originally deferred from the system because of budget cuts.

$43.5 million given for more graduate student housing, San Francisco Chronicle
A $43.5 million gift to Stanford University and its law school will go toward building housing for several hundred graduate students, the university said Thursday.

MiraCosta enrollment holds steady; tuition boost cited, San Diego Union-Tribune
Fewer students than expected have enrolled at MiraCosta College this semester, and one administrator said it's probably because of the 44 percent tuition increase.

Palomar trustees OK raises, San Diego Union-Tribune
Palomar College trustees voted yesterday to give more than 800 part-time teachers a salary increase that will be three years retroactive, but the additional pay may not come until January.

Many Nervous Juniors Are Put to the Test Again, Los Angeles Times
Stress builds for high school students who must retake part, or all, of state's new exit exam.

School Is an Experiment in Learning, Los Angeles Times
The campus, a joint venture between L.A. Unified and a museum, will let students focus on science, math, technology.

Database to track students' entire academic careers, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Rio Hondo College officials say they're expecting to get a new database under way this fall that would track local students' academic progress from kindergarten through college.

County schools worried over Latinos' test scores, Press-Democrat
Nearly half of all incoming high school juniors in Sonoma County who have yet to pass the state's exit exam in English are Latino, a number that has many educators worried.

A Windfall for a Student Loan Program, New York Times
More than a decade ago, Congress decided it was giving away too much to the student loan industry, needlessly guaranteeing big profits at taxpayer expense.

M.I.T. Makes Yale Provost First Woman to Be Its Chief, New York Times
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday named Susan Hockfield, provost of Yale University, as its 16th president. She succeeds Charles M. Vest, who announced his retirement in December after 14 years in the post.

Heading Back to Class in Like Attire, Washington Post
When the school year started in Prince George's County on Monday, Northwestern High School embarked on an experiment that most public high schools in the nation have refused to try -- making its nearly 3,000 students wear uniforms.

Summer homework brings on blues, CNN/AP
Parents worry workload making summer fun slip away.

College Sports TV Signs Deal With Mountain West Conference, Breaking Into ESPN Turf, Chronicle of Higher Education
The Mountain West Conference consists of eight universities: the United States Air Force Academy; Brigham Young, Colorado State, and San Diego State Universities; and the Universities of Nevada at Las Vegas, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Editorial: A Voucher by Any Other Name..., Wall St. Journal
Apparently smells sweeter depending on the wording. That's the gist of a new Wirthlin Worldwide study finding America's attitude toward vouchers depends largely on whether or not you are using loaded language.

Dan Walters: Senate duel reverberates as Legislature churns to adjournment, Sacramento Bee
As adjournment pressure mounts, Capitol denizens have another preoccupation: figuring out how Martha Escutia's bid to become the Senate's top leader was torpedoed.

Mandatory community service for college kids, Sacramento Bee
Requiring public college students to perform community service to graduate is an idea that would enrich students' lives and benefit personnel-starved community groups. The compulsory nature of the service would not detract from the enormous good that would flow to all involved.

Perata -- effective wheeler-dealer, San Francisco Chronicle
The winding career path of Oakland's Don Perata doesn't follow the tidy picture of political life painted in the civics textbooks he used for so many years teaching at Alameda High School.

Defining Time for Governor, Los Angeles Times
The rush of bills sent to Schwarzenegger's desk may be a litmus test for his political philosophy.

 

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