Cal Poly's budget uncertain, Daily Bulletin
Cal Poly Pomona faces at least $11 million in budget cuts, but university officials are working to keep the reductions from affecting students and to avoid layoffs, President Michael Ortiz said Tuesday.

SDSU, Padres combine to offer sports-business MBA, San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego State University is offering what administrators say is the first MBA degree program with a major league baseball team.

Sac State narrows field in business dean hunt, Sacramento Bee
California State University, Sacramento, has narrowed the search for a new business school dean to six sitting or former deans from universities outside of the capital region and mostly outside California

CSUS' Lewis is named dean of the College of Education, Sacramento Bee
Michael J. Lewis, professor of special education at California State University, Sacramento, has been named dean of the university's College of Education.

Through the Mill, Monterey Herald
For years, government officials have pondered how to get rid of Fort Ord's ghost town of old wood buildings. CSU-Monterey Bay officials and a private contractor may have found an alternative: recycling.

College money available, but deadline looming, North County Times
State money is available to help students pay for college, but a Tuesday deadline looms for Cal Grants and officials are urging applicants to act now, finance officers at Cal State San Marcos said this week.

Hundreds of high school students to get tested at CSU, Chico Enterprise-Record
Competition for $132,000 in President's Scholarships will be held at Chico State University this weekend and more than 400 high school students, some from as far away as Virginia, are expected to attend.

Education effort needs more funds, Fresno Bee
The Cal Poly-Rita Bee Hill Higher Education Center in Tulare got off to a good start last year, enrolling 93 students in e-commerce technology classes.

UCR student finds fossils of dinosaur, Press-Enterprise
A UC Riverside graduate student has uncovered fossils belonging to a type of dinosaur that appears to be new to the scientific community.

UCSC group targets Taco Bell, Santa Cruz Sentinel
Protesters say they are targeting Taco Bell because the company, as a large buyer of tomatoes, can pressure growers into improving worker conditions. The chain buys 60 million pounds of tomatoes annually, according to its Web site.

LBUSD group rejects union, Long Beach Press-Telegram
Sparing the Long Beach school district a round of labor negotiations, a group of supervisors has voted to reject a proposal to form a bargaining unit under the leadership of the Teamsters.

No Child Left Behind changes sought, Orange County Register
Official doesn't want schools to suffer because parents can take kids out of tests.

Court Says States Need Not Finance Divinity Studies, New York Times
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states that subsidize secular study at the college level may withhold the scholarships from students preparing for the ministry.

Decline Seen in Science Applications From Overseas, New York Times
Bucking a trend that dates to the end of World War II, the number of foreign students applying to graduate and doctoral programs in science at American universities is declining broadly, according to a survey of 130 such programs released here today.

Worst Rates of Graduation Are in New York, Study Says, New York Times
Black and Latino students in New York State are less likely to finish high school on time than their counterparts anywhere else in the nation, according to a new analysis of graduation rates around the country.

Former college president tapped as liaison to Colorado athletics department, San Diego Union-Tribune/AP
The University of Colorado appointed a former college president Wednesday to help the school determine whether its embattled athletics department has a culture that encourages mistreatment of women.

Applications From Foreign Graduate Students Decline, Survey Finds, Chronicle of Higher Education
The number of foreign graduate students applying to study in the United States has declined since last year, according to survey results that are scheduled to be released today. The decline is being attributed to national-security policies that have made foreign students feel unwelcome.

Report Disputes U.S. High School Graduation Rates, Washington Post
Barely half of all black, Hispanic and Native American students who entered U.S. high schools in 2000 will receive diplomas this year, according to a new report that challenges conventional methods of calculating graduation rates.

Peter Schrag: Proposition 56: Exorcising ghost of John Calhoun, Sacramento Bee
They call themselves Californians Against Higher Taxes and they're pouring tons of money into the campaign against Proposition 56, the measure on next week's primary ballot that would lower the legislative margin needed to pass a budget or raise state taxes from 67 percent to 55 percent.

Letters to the Editor, Sacramento Bee
Voting on school bonds [President Gonzalez and others.]

Opinion: Is SDSU leadership taking this seriously?, San Diego Union-Tribune
Tom Craft can survive this, but not unscathed. He can outlast the scandalous allegations about his football operation at San Diego State, but not without resolving to run a tighter ship.

Daniel Weintraub: Steinberg seeks common ground on cutting spending, Sacramento Bee
Hoping to change the terms of the annual debate pitting cuts in services against increases in taxes, a leading Democrat in the Assembly is set to engage Republican legislators and the governor in what he promises will be a serious quest to find the "waste, fraud and abuse" that so many insist riddles state government.

Editorial: Invest in education, Los Angeles Daily News
Yes on Proposition 55 and Measure R.

Letters to the Editor, Daily Breeze
Propositions will help RB schools.

Opinion: California held back without investment in education resources, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The measure on Tuesday's ballot would provide funding for facilities for public schools throughout the state, including $10 billion for K-12 and $2.3 billion for higher education.

Opinion: Denying entry to qualified students, San Diego Union-Tribune
Much as it troubles me to see these resources withdrawn from our university and the people it serves, I can understand the fairness of it. Times are tough; we all have to make sacrifices. [President Weber]

Letters to the Editor, Los Angeles Times
Angelides Urges School Bond Support.

Opinion: Despite the Ads, Armageddon Is Not Nigh, Los Angeles Times
There are good alternatives to Proposition 57.

Buffett, Schwarzenegger unite to back bond issue, Sacramento Bee
Billionaire Warren Buffett on Wednesday delivered a sales pitch to some of the biggest bond underwriters in America on behalf of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed debt-refinancing bonds.

Poll finds Californians have more confidence in state's direction, Sacramento Bee/AP
Californians have more confidence in California's government and economy three months after recalling Gray Davis and replacing him with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a new poll found.

Low voter turnout could hurt school bond measure, Oakland Tribune
Experts say $12.3 billion education proposition at risk.

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