Gavilan extends city’s University Center with CSUMB classes, Hollister Free Lance
Gavilan Community College is expanding its University Center at Hollister with two business classes from California State University at Monterey Bay.

Students falsified survey judge cited in moving Peterson murder trial, CNN/AP
A survey a judge cited in his decision to move Scott Peterson's capital murder trial out of Modesto contained made-up information, criminal justice students who conducted the survey told a newspaper.

Education Tops Boeing Community Accomplishments for 2003, Long Beach Business Journal
Boeing has expanded our own collaboration efforts with a new partnership with the California State University (CSU). This year, we contributed $50,000 to the CSU to fund a “How To Get To College” poster.

CSU grad students look to unionize, Oakland Tribune
Graduate students employed by the California State University system are trying to form a union.

Tuitions at UC, CSU would rise, Ventura County Star
If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal is approved by the Legislature, the cost of classes for community college, University of California and California State University students will soon go up.[Comments by CSU Channel Island community.]

Getting a jump-start to attend college, Oakland Tribune
New program allows high school students to earn university credits.

UC details its investing shortfalls, San Jose Mercury-News
The University of California could have earned up to $4.8 billion more on its investments for retirees during the past decade simply by outsourcing them to good advisers.

Students would take fewer tests under state budget, North County Times
Most students will take two to three fewer hours of standardized tests next year, thanks to a new law and a proposed budget cut from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

More state help, higher fees urged for community colleges, Sacramento Bee
Fees must go up and politicians must invest more money in community colleges if the system of two-year schools is to remain California's largest gateway to higher education, a study released Tuesday concludes.

Study: State's community colleges near bottom, Contra Costa Times
California's community colleges rank near the bottom nationally in state funding and over the last 30 years have lost significant financial ground to the University of California and California State University even though the state's colleges enroll far more students.

Researcher: Fee hikes should help colleges, San Jose Mercury-News
As students and educators denounce the governor's proposal to raise community college fees again next year, a University of San Francisco researcher is urging higher fees as a way to protect quality and access in the state's largest college system.

Nursing schools bewail lack of openings, funds, San Bernardino Sun
Nursing school administrators in San Bernardino County say they are alarmed at the number of students steered away from careers in nursing because schools are short of funding to educate them. [Cal State San Bernardino programs referenced.]

State nursing ratios accentuate shortage, San Bernardino Sun
Area hospitals looking to hire more registered nurses to meet new state standards are having trouble finding enough job candidates.

Cuts could reimpose barriers, Hayward Review
Budget plan would end program aimed at helping disadvantaged through college.

Governor's plan for colleges wins praise in North Bay, Press-Democrat
Fee increases in the California State University and University of California systems have fluctuated from year to year, depending on the economy. A proposal by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could change that by making increases more predictable for students and parents footing the bills.

Students brace for fee hikes, Daily Bulletin
Higher tuitions part of governor's budget.

State duns college district, Orange County Register
A repayment of $900,000 is sought for Bridge P.E. classes in Cypress, Fullerton.

Making the grade keeps getting harder, Christian Science Monitor
Although exact numbers are hard to come by, at least a few dozen primary or secondary schools in the United States lose accreditation each year, leaving parents and students angry and bewildered.

Striving to Improve Those at the Head of the Class, New York Times
The deadline looms. Under federal law, by 2006 every classroom must have a highly qualified teacher, and Louis V. Gerstner, the former I.B.M. chairman and an architect of the school standards movement, has a prediction. "We don't have a chance," he said flatly.

3,000 Students Register for Free Music Sharing as Penn State U. Begins Napster Trial, Chronicle of Higher Education
More than 3,000 students at Pennsylvania State University's University Park campus signed up for a legal music-sharing service in the first 24 hours after it was made available, free, on the campus network, university officials said on Tuesday.

Wellesley's President Isn't Smiling Over College's Portrayal in Film, Chronicle of Higher Education
The president of Wellesley College, Diana Chapman Walsh, issued a statement last week to "set the record straight" about the movie Mona Lisa Smile, a fictional account of women's lives at Wellesley in the early 1950s.

Washington's Governor Proposes Amending '98 Ban to Allow Return of Race-Conscious College Admissions, Chronicle of Higher Education
On Monday, Governor Locke, a Democrat, announced that one of his top legislative priorities this year would be a bill to let public colleges return to having race-conscious admissions policies, provided they meet criteria specified by the U.S. Supreme Court in two key decisions handed down last summer.

Opinion: University's falsified survey results another blot on the region's character, Modesto Bee
The T.T. Eight have admitted falsifying "results" of a survey on attitudes here and in the Bay Area relating to the Scott Peterson case.

Letters to the Editor, Modesto Bee
Readers comment on Peterson survey issue.

Editorial: The Aggie Legacy, Wall St. Journal
Because the debate about affirmative action in college admissions is really a debate about racial discrimination, proponents prefer to change the subject -- often by bringing up admission preferences for relatives of alumni, known as "legacies."

Peter Schrag: Schwarzenegger's fiscal strategy: Where's Plan B?, Sacramento Bee
The big debate about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts may become nothing but a footnote if, as seems increasingly possible, voters in March reject his monster deficit borrowing.

Dan Walters: 10 little words generate another state-local budget confrontation, Sacramento Bee
Proposition 13, enacted by voters in 1978, limited property taxes to 1 percent of market value, and said that the taxes would be "apportioned according to law to the districts within the counties."

Opinion: Perhaps CSUH should do its homework, Hayward Review
Will CSUH attempt to distinguish itself and increase its enrollment by changes of substance in classes and degrees, or cosmetic changes of name -- at its accessible, beautiful campus in the Hayward Hills?

Analyst Says Budget Plan Doesn't Go Far Enough, Los Angeles Times
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed $99-billion state budget is a solid first step toward a balanced fiscal plan but the state would still be $6 billion short by mid-2005, California's nonpartisan legislative analyst reported Tuesday.

Budget 'a solid starting point', Sacramento Bee
But legislative analyst says it leaves $6 billion hole for 2005-06.

Governor seeks repeal of new laws, Sacramento Bee
The measures are costly, an aide says, but some of the Democratic authors think ideology is at work.

Brulte no longer the antagonist, Daily Bulletin
For five years, Jim Brulte has been the Republican antagonist to a Democratic governor, playing the leading opponent to Gray Davis and the legislative majority.

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