Fresno State will add students, Fresno Bee
New state budget funds will help boost enrollment by 530 in the spring.

Tribal Program Promotes College, Science, North County Times
After more than a century of sovereignty, less than 1 percent of American Indians are college-educated, leaving tribes reliant on outsiders to help manage their lands and natural resources.

CSULB applicants get 2nd chance, Press-Telegram
Students celebrate restored funding that allows 700 more to enroll.

Valley teacher wears two hats, Fresno Bee
Fresno State can soon boast having a professor who is also a Mexican state legislator on its faculty.

Valley campus to host trio of international organizations, Desert Sun
Conference is a first for Cal State site.

CSUH finds another spot for mainstay, Hayward Review
Cal State Hayward graduate, coach, professor is new president of Academic Senate.

UCI Probing Official's Spending, Los Angeles Times
The director of the epidemiology division of the College of Medicine must account for how roughly $1 million in grants was spent.

U. of California System Told to Pay $3-Million to Former UCLA Employee in Sex-Bias Case, Chronicle of Higher Education
A state jury ordered the University of California system last week to pay a former employee of the Los Angeles campus $2.95-million in damages for discriminating against her based on her sex and for retaliating against her when she complained.

UCSD leader's house to cost $6,500 a month, San Diego Union-Tribune
The University of California will pay $156,000 over the next two years to rent a La Jolla house for the incoming chancellor at UC San Diego, Marye Anne Fox.

Students sue UC regents over new housing plans, Contra Costa Times
A UC Berkeley student housing committee sued the University of California Regents Thursday in an effort to stop development at University Village that would nearly double the cost of living there for graduate students with families.

Los Alamos lab's security appears great on paper, Oakland Tribune
Glowing evaluation comes in wake of recent lapses in handling of nuclear data.

Probe of research pact at Cal released, San Francisco Chronicle
UC Berkeley's $25 million deal with the giant Novartis drug company, a lightning-rod symbol of corporate sponsorship of university research, did not wreak the harm feared by critics, but such broad agreements should be avoided, according to a long-awaited independent review.

Governor taps predecessor's idea, San Francisco Chronicle
Community service may be required for public college-goers.

It's Never Too Late, San Jose Mercury-News
Learning is not restricted to the functionality of acquiring a profession or earning money, said Oma Morey, program directo of San Jose State University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Many older adults, she points out, rise as students from a higher understanding of what learning can bring to one's life: joy, for starters.

Report sets off school alarms, Sacramento Bee
Educators say task force doesn't understand services they provide to kids.

Targeted Areas: Education, Los Angeles Times
Changing the cutoff date for enrolling in kindergarten to Sept. 1 could initially save $660 million a year, but critics say it would hurt immigrant students.

University applicants breathe easier after budget revisions, San Diego Union-Tribune
Although California's public universities will shoulder hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts under the budget signed yesterday, officials note it could have been worse.

Engineering students race in homemade submarines, San Diego Union-Tribune
They're known as the human-powered submarine races, and to be a participant, one has to be tri-talented: a bicyclist, a scuba diver and an engineer.

Calif. Budget Deal Ends Enrollment Cuts, Chronicle of Higher Education
Thousands of applicants to California's public universities who were directed to community colleges because of expected budget restrictions would now be admitted to a four-year campus under the state-budget deal reached last week by California lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Colleges discover budget not so terrible, Oakland Tribune
Outreach programs kept, thousands won't be pushed to junior colleges.

Rampant rip-offs, Stockton Record
With help from the Internet, plagiarism has become so commonplace among high school students, experts and educators say many teens have no idea they're doing anything wrong at all.

American Indians Expand College Hopes, New York Times
American Indians and Alaska Natives, who make up about 1 percent of the nation's population, are underrepresented at many highly selective colleges, contributing well below 1 percent of undergraduates.

Hawaii Regents Rescind Firing of President, Who Will Resign in Return for $1.6-Million Settlement, Chronicle of Higher Education
The Board of Regents of the University of Hawaii System has rescinded its firing of Evan S. Dobelle as president and instead agreed to a mediated settlement in which it will pay about $1.6-million to him and other parties.

It Takes a Tribe, New York Times (Education Life)
At colleges across the country, from Ivy League to less exclusive state schools, students who are mispronouncing the library's name this month will soon feel truly and deeply a part of their college. They'll be singing their school songs and cherishing the traditions (just as soon as they learn what they are).

Seniority, New York Times (Education Life)
Having founded Touro College in 1970, Bernard Lander is one of the longest-serving college presidents in the country.

Now, the Poor Don't Need to Mortgage Their Future, New York Times (Education Life)
In the competitive early 90's, many colleges increased their aid to talented students regardless of whether they actually needed financial help.

Editorial: Preserve access to UC, Sacramento Bee
Rethink changes to eligibility requirements.

Editorial: UC Should Quit Los Alamos, Los Angeles Times
After 61 years, the University of California still can't get a handle on what's going on at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Opinion: The governor punts on his first budget, Sacramento Bee
Now that he has gotten through his surprisingly bumpy first state budget and looks to begin moving forward again, Arnold Schwarzenegger has a fundamental choice to make. Will his be primarily a transactional governorship or a transformational governorship?

Opinion: New SAT Is So Old School, Los Angeles Times
A few years back, the University of California threatened to replace the SAT with a test that would better measure advanced high school-level math skills, would omit verbal analogy questions and include an essay.

Opinion: The New SAT Won't Test Students' Sanity, Los Angeles Times
Since 1941, American high school students have participated in the unpleasant ritual of taking the SAT.

Letters to the Editor, Chronicle of Higher Education
Too Much Money for College Presidents.

State Pushes Problems Into Future, Los Angeles Times
Across the nation, lawmakers raise taxes or cut programs to resolve budget shortfalls. But in California, big-time borrowing is the answer.

Upbeat governor signs unloved budget, Sacramento Bee
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Saturday signed his first state budget, a month-late, $105 billion spending plan that fell short of the celebrity governor's promise of an on-time budget free of short-term fixes, special-interest pressures and partisan bickering.

Pare down, state urged, Sacramento Bee
Governor's task force likely to recommend slashing jobs, board posts and agencies.

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