Cal Poly gets high ranking, Daily Bulletin
College-bound high school students ranked Cal Poly Pomona third among the West's top universities, according to a national market research survey.

Outreach programs targeted for cuts, Eureka Times-Standard
Humboldt State University officials say proposed cuts to outreach programs would undermine not only the education of many students but the philosophy of higher education in California.

Diversity Lagging at Cal Poly, Los Angeles Times
A largely automated admissions process hinders minority applicants at San Luis Obispo campus.

CSU Monterey Bay classes open to all, Santa Cruz Sentinel
Budget cuts won’t keep CSU Monterey Bay from offering a variety of continuing education courses to anyone who wants to take them.

Written word speaks volumes for Diana Garcia, Monterey Herald
Racial discrimination, abortion, welfare... Diana Garcia has peeled away the bandages and is talking about these gritty subjects to her students at CSU-Monterey Bay. And she has clout, because she has lived every one of them.

CSUSB business students get some ‘real world’ experience, Desert Sun
Angel Zamudio and his team surveyed the small business, targeted areas that could be improved and then suggested how to make changes.Although they do just what professional consultants might do, Zamudio and his teammates are students at California State University, San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus.

Trail of Concerns, Fresno Bee
Rider's death raises issue over the safety of a growing program.

UCSC may add 6,000 students, Santa Cruz Sentinel
A campus committee envisions UC Santa Cruz adding 6,000 students by 2020, bringing enrollment to 21,000.

UC Irvine Giving New Peace Award to 2 Leading Lights, Los Angeles Times
Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama will be honored. Organizers also have launched initiatives in Bosnia and Northern Ireland.

Wisdom-Sharing Falling to Fiscal Ax, Los Angeles Times
A Ventura County program in which seniors spread their knowledge to schoolchildren is being hurt by the state's budget crisis.

Video game maker gives $8 million to USC's School of Cinema-Television, Monterey Herald/AP
One of the world's leading makers of video games is donating $8 million to USC's School of Cinema-Television to expand the university's interactive media program.

Students flex political muscle, Fresno Bee
Local community college students say their meeting with legislators in Sacramento last week is but one chapter in a political science lesson about power.

USC Gets a Boost, Los Angeles Times
Electronic Arts donates $8million to the School of Cinema-Television to develop a pipeline of 'next-generation' talent in video game design.

Their Decision to Attend College Was Elementary, Los Angeles Times
At 9 years old, Luis Gaona Jr. made a pretty savvy move. Along with about 7,000 other fifth-graders in Riverside County, Gaona promised the folks at Riverside Community College during a program called Passport to College that he would graduate from high school and go to college. In exchange, the college pledged to pay the fees for every one of those students who enrolled at RCC.

Margarita vision is becoming a reality, San Luis Obispo Tribune
The city must allow for 4,087 housing units in the next five years. Of the total, 2,167 units will be targeted for very-low and low-income households, and 1,178 for Cal Poly students, faculty and staff.

Accused Professor Is Placed on Leave, Los Angeles Times
Kerri Dunn, suspected of faking a hate crime, will not return to classes at Claremont McKenna.

Leader of Schools, Ever in Shadow, New York Times
If Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is wearing a new tough-guy veneer after barreling through two weeks of controversies involving the city school system, it has come in no small part at the expense of his handpicked schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein.

A Question of Ethics: How to Teach Them?, New York Times
As scandals ripple through the corporate world, some business schools have introduced ethics courses, tweaked existing ones and conducted classroom conversations about the implosions of major companies like Enron and WorldCom.

Harvard Caps Compensation for Endowment Managers in Response to Outcry Over $100-Million Payday, Chronicle of Higher Education
The six highest-paid employees of the Harvard Management Company, who made a total of more than $100-million in salary and bonuses last year for overseeing the university's $19-billion endowment, may get a pay cut in future years.

Unions for Graduate Students Advance in California, New York, and Washington, Chronicle of Higher Education
Graduate-student unions won three separate battles last week, in California, New York, and Washington State, strengthening the movement to organize teaching and research assistants.

Refunds to Students Who Were Overcharged Could Cost Nevada's Public Colleges $4.6-Million, Chronicle of Higher Education
Thousands of students who have attended Nevada's public colleges at any time since 1995 will receive refunds because they should have been charged cheaper tuition as state residents.

EC Shift eyed in aid for N.E. colleges, Boston Globe
The Bush administration is proposing to redirect three financial aid programs that disproportionately benefit some of the wealthiest private colleges in New England. The move would shift tens of millions of dollars away from the region and toward the Sun Belt.

Letters to the Editor, Los Angeles Times
Budget cuts hindering students' education.

Editorial: A good deal by degrees, Santa Maria Times
As demonstrations go, Monday's event at the Capitol was less grand than a similar event last year, when more than 10,000 community college students from around the state marched to convince lawmakers to back away from a fee hike.

Commentary: UC system feeling the strain, UPI
The long-running disagreement over ethnic diversity and academic purity at the University of California system boiled over this week in the form of an unprecedented public reprimand of the president of the Board of Regents.

Higher education: broken promise, San Jose Mercury-News
The state's budget crisis is about to hit home for thousands of college applicants this month, as California's public universities prepare to turn away a record number of eligible students.

Editorial: Opting out of tests, Sacramento Bee
Each year, about 50,000 California students opt out of taking the state's basic reading and math tests. Their parents sign a waiver excusing their child from taking the tests.

Daniel Weintraub: How closing bases can be good for our communities, Sacramento Bee
With the federal government poised to begin another round of military base closures, California politicians from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on down are moving into position to argue against shutting any of the state's 62 remaining military installations.

Dan Walters: Governor's charm doesn't solve local government dilemma, Sacramento Bee
The governor's appearance belied the increasingly contentious relationship between state and local governments, one that could reach a climax in November with a ballot measure that would, if enacted, make it more difficult for the state to periodically raid local treasuries.

Dan Walters: How deep is budget hole? Deeper than politicos admit, Sacramento Bee
Everyone knows that California is in a deep fiscal crisis and has been running up multibillion-dollar budget deficits, which its politicians have covered over with an imaginative variety of bookkeeping gimmicks and on-and off-the-books loans.

Editorial: UC's roiled regents, San Diego Union-Tribune
Don't fight Chairman Moores; join him.

Letters to the Editor, Los Angeles Times
College Fee Hikes: a Tax on Students.

Steve Lopez: The Well's Running Dry for Colleges, Los Angeles Times
The sign in front of Los Angeles City College boasts that the school is "an urban oasis of learning." But on campus, there seems to be trouble in paradise.

George Skelton: State Government Has Cash Shortage, Surplus of Holidays, Los Angeles Times
A Republican legislator's simple idea couldn't solve the budget deficit, but it would stretch tax dollars. It also would inject some common sense into state government.

Opinion: State College System Cuts Shortsighted, Salinas Californian
Higher education, once a luxury item reserved primarily for the sons and occasionally the daughters of the wealthy, is now a necessity for people who hope to join the middle class, and for a state that depends on innovative graduates to boost its economy.

Spending goes up in Legislature, Sacramento Bee
As its members sliced spending for programs throughout state government over the past two years, the Legislature's own budget grew and is slated to rise again in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget proposal.

Statewide asset sale proposed, Sacramento Bee
Lawmakers hope to raise $1 billion by putting Cow Palace, other properties on the auction block.

State Seeks to Reopen Done Deals, Los Angeles Times
Concerned about costly pay hikes for workers, officials scrutinize pacts with prison guards, the CHP and others.

Schwarzenegger Has World Beating a Path to the Capitol, Los Angeles Times
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, awash in proposals to revamp the state's costly workers' compensation system, is discovering that he must carve out time for the world. The diplomatic corps would appreciate just a few minutes of his attention. And perhaps a photo.

Debate over bond has bullet train in limbo, Sacramento Bee
Lawmakers weighing the fate of a bullet train linking California's major cities agree that the state is too financially strapped to ask voters in November to approve a $9.95 billion construction bond.

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Tolowa Indians' Leader Keynotes CSU Alumni Day in Sacramento, CSU Public Affairs
CSU alum Loren Bommelyn, nationally recognized as a Tolowa Indians’ spiritual and political leader, will give the keynote address at the annual California State University Legislative Day luncheon on Monday, March 22, at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Sacrament

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