February 2, 2007
CSU/Campus News
San Francisco Chronicle 2/2/07
By Tanya Schevitz
San Francisco State University is joining at least six other colleges that are using popular social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook to appeal to a generation of digital age students.
SJSU faculty pickets for bigger wage increase
Mercury News 2/1/07
By Leslie Griffy
Poster-carrying San Jose State University professors rallied on campus Wednesday as part of their union's statewide effort to press the California State University system for higher pay increases.
Union-Tribune 2/2/07
By Lisa Petrillo
SAN MARCOS – On her third anniversary as university president yesterday, Karen Haynes made her 149th speech.
HSU billionaire alum Fisher honored
Times-Standard 2/2/07
The Board of Trustees of the 23-campus California State University, the nation's largest public university, has unanimously commended the “exemplary leadership and generosity” bestowed on Humboldt State University by its famed billionaire alumnus Kenneth L. Fisher ('72, Economics).
University president says CSUSM has turned corner
North County Times 2/2/07
By David Garrick
A recent enrollment surge and a slew of new community partnerships are strong evidence that Cal State San Marcos has shifted gears from a focus on the future to being a key ingredient in North County's prosperity, university President Karen Haynes said Thursday morning.
Cal State suspends coach, 2 athletes
Press-Telegram 2/2/07
By Frank Burlison
Two key members of the Long Beach State men's basketball team have been suspended from game competition and an assistant coach has been suspended from his duties, the school announced Thursday afternoon.
CSULB Leads NASA Air Traffic Study
Long Beach Gazette 2/1/07
By Carla M. Collado
NASA has chosen California State University, Long Beach, to lead a multi-million dollar study that looks at the possibility of increasing air traffic nationwide up to three times by 2025 without building new airports.
Editorials/Commentary
Students left behind
San Francisco Chronicle 2/2/07
It's like inviting someone to dinner -- and then only serving them a salad. California is extraordinarily generous in welcoming students to community colleges, but does a lousy job helping many of them satisfy their educational aspirations.
UC News
Oil giant primes the biofuel pump with $500 million
L.A. Times 2/2/07
By Richard C. Paddock
Oil giant BP will give $500 million to a partnership led by UC Berkeley to develop new biofuels and reduce environmental harm caused by the use of fossil fuels, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and company officials announced Thursday.
UC Berkeley Extension faces uncertain future
Oakland Tribune 2/2/07
By Matt Krupnick
In 2000, shortly before California's high-tech economy went belly-up, the University of California, Berkeley Extension catalog was a 376-page book.
California News
Access and Success — Is it Either/Or?
Inside Higher Ed 2/2/07
By Elizabeth Redden
A new report on California’s community college system argues that polices in place to enhance access have had the unintended effect of inhibiting student completion.
Study urges revamping of community colleges
Sacramento Bee 2/2/07
By Eric Stern
For decades, California has earned high marks for its public universities, with more than 100 community colleges prided as the low-cost gateway to a degree. Whether you're a high school dropout or bound for Berkeley, you need only to be 18 to get in.
Few California community college students graduate or transfer, study says
L.A. Times 2/2/07
By Francisco Vara-Orta
Only one-fourth of California's community college students seeking a degree transferred to a university or earned an associate's degree or certificate within six years, a report released Thursday found.
National News
Upping the Ante on Pell Grants
Inside Higher Ed 2/2/07
By Doug Lederman
Let the bidding war begin. Three days after Democratic Congressional leaders crafted a 2007 budget plan to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $260, to $4,310, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced that President Bush’s 2008 budget would call for increasing the maximum grant by another $290, to $4,600, next year and to $5,400 over five years.
Survey finds black youths ambivalent on society
L.A. Times 2/2/07
By E.A. Torriero, Chicago Tribune
Many young black people remain alienated and pessimistic about their place in society, with a majority saying immigrants receive better treatment than they do, according to a national survey released Thursday.
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