Professor's research is one for the masses, Daily Breeze
Neutrinos may be ghost particles, but for a CSUDH teacher, they may be the key to all living things.

CSUS, USC land legislative staff institute, Sacramento Bee
The five-year deal will move the training center from Minnesota to Sacramento.

National legislative training center switching states, San Francisco Chronicle/AP
A national training center for legislative employees is leaving its longtime home at a Minnesota university and moving to California.

CSUSM's Haynes gets good marks, North County Times
Three months ago, on her first day on the job, Karen Haynes faced a crowd of nearly 200 people at the Cal State San Marcos campus. As the university's new president, she asked the crowd not for kindness but for patience; not for them to trust her but for them to watch what she does.

Colleges work to thwart high-tech cheating, Los Angeles Daily News
Faced with a surge in cheating ahead of final exams this month, officials at Cal State Northridge and local community colleges are adopting high-tech solutions and improving traditional vigilance to snare unethical students looking for that easy A.

Crammed sessions, San Diego Union-Tribune
College students struggle to graduate as schools cut classes, raise tuition.

Quick Studies, San Diego Union-Tribune
It's a rare feat, but some grads at SDSU do finish in four years.

Faculty votes to trim athletics, San Jose Mercury-News
Faculty members at San Jose State have voted by nearly a 3-1 ratio to ask the university's president to sharply reduce spending on sports teams and begin the process of withdrawing from Division I-A and the Western Athletic Conference.

Educator leads blitz against SJSU football, San Jose Mercury-News
In the fight over football's future at San Jose State University, James Brent is an unlikely general leading the heretics of the academy against all the Spartan Army holds dear.

Cal Poly students raise money to donate wheelchairs, San Luis Obispo Tribune
Cal Poly students have raised $22,000 to send 280 wheelchairs to Thailand this summer.

UCD apologizes for mistaken e-mail, Sacramento Bee
University of California, Davis, officials apologized on Friday for mistakenly sending invitations for their summer advising program to 90 community college students who had previously been denied admission.

UC rejects tobacco money for research, San Francisco Chronicle
UC Berkeley's renowned School of Public Health has banned the use of tobacco industry funds for research because of the devastating death toll of smoking, the school's dean said Friday.

Bill proposes to cut lottery share to schools to boost prizes, sales, Sacramento Bee
Faced with stagnant sales and a rising sea of gambling competition, California Lottery officials are pushing legislation that would cut the percentage of the games' revenues guaranteed to schools and increase the amount paid out in prizes.

Graduating in the red, Contra Costa Times
Little relief in sight on escalating student costs.

College crunch hitting 10,000, Los Angeles Daily News
High school grads find goals deferred.

University-eligible students may crowd Calif. community colleges, Bakersfield Californian/AP
The state's community colleges are preparing for a crush of students who were turned away from the state's public universities because of state budget cuts.

Tally Due on College No-Confidence Vote, Los Angeles Times
South O.C. district chief Raghu Mathur faces his third vote but has board support. Relations with the faculty have long been miserable.

Statues take a stand on eduction budget cuts, Sacramento Bee
The missing students - 120 of them, fabricated out of fiberglass and paint and hope - are returning to Sacramento for a few days, to stand vigil outside the Capitol during the state budget process while their human counterparts in California's community colleges finish the spring semester.

LAUSD continues to fail its students, parents, Los Angeles Daily News
Funding shortages weaken schools, divide community.

Education chiefs agree system needs help but disagree on how to fix it, USA Today
Education Secretary Rod Paige and Reg Weaver, head of the USA's largest teachers union, don't often agree on what's best for America's schools.

More Youths Opt for G.E.D., Skirting High-School Hurdle, New York Times
A testing system created more than half a century ago to help World War II veterans earn the equivalent of a high school diploma has increasingly become a way for teenagers to short-circuit high school.

The Remains of Dismay, Chronicle of Higher Education
Cadaver scandals undermine confidence in medical-school programs that ask donors to make a gift of themselves.

Wrestling Groups Lose Another Round in Effort to Overturn Title IX Rules, Chronicle of Higher Education
A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a challenge by groups representing coaches, athletes, and alumni of collegiate wrestling programs to federal rules on gender equity in college sports.

Letters to the Editor, Los Angeles Times
University Officials Mix Civics With Politics.

Opposing View: CSU's ex officio members need deputies, Sacramento Bee
The Bee is correct that AB 2339 would allow ex officio members of the California State University board of trustees to designate a deputy to act on their behalf at the meetings. However, this does not represent a "major change in governance," as alleged in the editorial.

Daniel Weintraub: Here's the real uniter, not divider, Sacramento Bee
Gov. Schwarzenegger's first six months: A report card.

Opinion: State schools with most blacks, Latinos get fewest resources, Sacramento Bee
Brown v. Board of Education: 50 years later.

Editorial: Still under construction, Sacramento Bee
Higher education compact needs work.

Dan Walters: Schwarzenegger unique, but with parallels to predecessors, Sacramento Bee
The uniqueness of Arnold Schwarzenegger's governorship was underscored anew last week as he completed a whirlwind series of agreements with major "stakeholders" in the state budget and unveiled a much-revised spending plan.

JIM BOREN: Schools can't teach accountability, Sacramento Bee
The education business, as opposed to what goes on in the classrooms of the thousands of dedicated teachers in California, lurches from trend to trend, depending on the latest sales pitch sold by the growing number of education consultants to their political enablers in the Legislature.

Editorial: Go East for a real Mardi Gras solution, San Luis Obispo Tribune
If students are rioting, then where is the university oversight of its students? Why can't Cal Poly step up to the plate and expel students who are arrested for riot-related actions?

George Skelton: He's Huge in the Capitol but Definitely Not Big Man on University Campuses, Los Angeles Times
Two things should be kept in mind and pondered separately when assessing Arnold Schwarzenegger as governor. One is his political prowess; the other his public policy.

Editorial: Not Faustian, Not a Bargain, Los Angeles Times
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's compact with the state's two university systems — which would go forth with some hard cuts this fall but promises of increased funding over the next seven years — is not the deal with the devil that was seen by a few Democratic lawmakers.

Governor orders inventory of assets, Sacramento Bee
Schwarzenegger hopes to bring in $50 million by selling surplus.

California Governor's Revised Budget Keeps Tuition Increases and Many University Cuts, Chronicle of Higher Education
California's governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, proposed a revised budget last week that would still impose significant cuts on the University of California and California State University Systems and would still raise tuition by double-digit percentages during 2004-5.

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