College finds few budget answers, Fresno Bee
Invited Fresno State faculty, staff and administrators met Thursday behind closed doors to hash out ways to cut, consolidate and eliminate university operations to meet shrinking budgets.

Fresno State wasted $3.6m, audit reveals, Fresno Bee
An audit of Fresno State's auxiliary organizations, including the athletic corporation that funnels money into Bulldogs sports, has found at least $3.6 million in wasted spending and slipshod accounting.

No shoe left unturned in audit of athletics, Fresno Bee
On April 25, 2002, 19 days into her tenure as Fresno State women's basketball coach, Stacy Johnson-Klein walked into Footaction USA at Fashion Fair and spent $221.11 on four pairs of sneakers. She charged them to her credit card.

Chico State teams shine in construction management contest, Chico Enterprise-Record
Student teams representing the construction management program, College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Technology at Chico State University, brought home two first places, a second and a third from the Associated Schools of Construction annual competition in Reno.

San Jose State limits stunts, Hayward Review
San Jose State University has prohibited its cheerleading squad from performing aerial stunts for at least the rest of this athletic season after a former American High School student was paralyzed when she fell during a practice last month.

CSU disputes claims, Modesto Bee
The California State University system has issued its formal denial against allegations by former Cal State Stanislaus men's basketball coach Mike Terpstra. Terpstra sued the university in November, claiming he was not rehired because the school wanted to hire an African-American coach.

State's 'lost' slavery past, Monterey Herald/AP
Historical records show contradictory history. [Archives at CSU Sacramento]

'There Are Nights When I Don't Go to Sleep', Los Angeles Times
The UFCW's Rick Icaza didn't expect such a painful dispute when he set out to broker a deal.

Documentary filmmaker at home at CSU Hayward, Chico Enterprise-Record
Cal State Hayward professor James Forsher's love affair with film began before he reached double digits.

CSUB students offering free preparation of tax returns, Bakersfield Californian
Cal State Bakersfield accounting students are offering free simple tax return preparations for the public on Saturdays through April 10.

Reason Runs Out in Fulbright Squabble, Los Angeles Times
After UC Berkeley misses deadline, lawyers argue over postal hours and try to define 'mail.'

UCD Tahoe research group will soon have a new home, Sacramento Bee
The leading research institution in the Tahoe Basin should soon have a new home - the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences.

Donor to Fund UCLA Chair on WWII Internment, Los Angeles Times
UCLA is set to announce this week that a $500,000 Aratani donation will establish the nation's first endowed academic chair to study the internment and the decades-long, successful campaign to gain redress for it.

UC, CSU admissions need tweak, Contra Costa Times
The University of California and California State University won't have to take the drastic measure of turning away eligible students to cope with the state budget crisis if they change who they're considering for admissions, according to a state report released Friday.

College admissions under microscope, Oakland Tribune
The Legislature should redefine eligibility requirements for the state's public universities and adopt other policy changes to ensure that budget cuts don't hamper California's promise to provide college access to all eligible students, a new report recommends.

Budget Fears at Cal State, UC Disputed, Los Angeles Times
Despite complaints from the state's two public university systems that budget cuts would force them to curb enrollment, a government report released Friday states that neither system would necessarily have to turn away eligible students next year.

Law School Gets a Second Chance, Los Angeles Times
National bar association tells Western State that it will reconsider yanking accreditation, but the Fullerton college's lawyer isn't optimistic.

Science education a battleground in schools, Contra Costa Times
First came the wars over how to teach reading and math to young students. Now the fighting has spilled into science.

Community college fee hike called unfair, Contra Costa Times
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes charging students who already have baccalaureate degrees $50 per unit to cope with the state's fiscal crisis. By comparison, other students would pay $26 a unit, up from $18.

Service learning a win-win program, Contra Costa Times
Now, many cities in Contra Costa and other counties have grown so large that they boast two, sometimes three high schools, some with 3,500 kids or more. Many high-school students feel disconnected from their community, and the community in return has detached itself from them.

Washington State Reaches $11-Million Settlement With Part-Time Community-College Instructors, Chronicle of Higher Education
The State of Washington reached a tentative agreement on Friday to settle a longstanding class-action lawsuit with part-time instructors at community colleges, agreeing to pay them $11-million for wrongfully denying health-care benefits during the summer.

Student Group Offers Whites-Only Scholarship, Washington Post/AP
Republicans at Rhode Island College Call Move a Protest of Affirmative Action.

Opinion: Governor puts the squeeze on colleges, North County Times
In his 2004-05 budget proposal, Schwarzenegger proposes a reduction of $21.1 million to the CSU system, by requiring 10 percent of CSU-eligible entering freshmen to be redirected to community colleges under a dual-admission program.

Editorial: A Revolt of the Flagships, New York Times
The United States has been sabotaging its future for decades by starving the public colleges and universities that have moved millions of Americans into the middle class.

Daniel Weintraub: How to get state workers comp that really works, Sacramento Bee
Californians who are injured at work spend more time off the job than do people in almost every other state.

Editorial: Good debt, bad debt, Sacramento Bee
Yes on Prop. 55, No on Prop. 57.

Dan Walters: It was a typical year: California grew by another 600,000 souls, Sacramento Bee
The most remarkable aspect of California's demographic patterns is their consistency. Beginning about a quarter-century ago, the state began experiencing a new wave of immigration from other nations and with that wave - roughly 300,000 people a year - has come a new spurt of population growth.

Editorial: Finally a Stamp of Approval, Los Angeles Times
Good for the leaders of the federal Fulbright scholarship program and UC Berkeley. They worked out an elegant solution to a missed deadline that had tossed Berkeley's applicants from this year's competition.

Editorial: Building Safety Into Schools, Los Angeles Times
Lockdowns. Perimeter fencing. Security cameras. Access control. The terms might seem more suited to maximum-security prisons than campuses full of children.

Letters to the Editor, Los Angeles Times
Cal Grants Should Be Equalized and Preserved.

Editorial: Don't add school bonds to state debt, Orange County Register
Any credit counselor will tell you that, if you have a debt problem, the first step is to stop digging the hole deeper. It's a lesson we hope voters apply to Proposition 55 in the March 2 election.

Schools pin repair hopes on Prop. 55, Desert Sun
$12.3 billion bond measure goes to voters on March 2.

Prop. 55 targets school facilities , Sonoma News-Index
On March 2, voters must decide whether the aging, unsafe and overcrowded parts of the state's education infrastructure are critical enough to get a $12.3 billion overhaul, or if the bond just means more debt in the California budget sinkhole.

A 55-percent solution urged, assailed in budget logjams, Sacramento Bee
For 17 years straight, California lawmakers have failed to pass the state budget by their June 15 deadline.

Governor has lots riding on bond package, Sacramento Bee
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to say that his proposed bond and budget-balancing measures will effectively cut up California's credit card and throw it away for good.

From gardener to Assembly speaker, San Diego Union-Tribune
What a week this has been in Sacramento. They took a brilliant young Latino who got his start in the San Diego barrio and, with 36 members of his family looking on, put him at the helm of the California Assembly.

Schools express need for Prop. 55, San Bernardino Sun
Officials: Measure helps handle growth.

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Community Service Learning Reaches New Milestones, CSU Public Affairs
More than 185,000 California State University students provided nearly 30 million hours of service to their communities during the last academic year through community service and service learning programs at the 23 CSU campuses.

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