January 2, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Penguins and polar bears party Hawaii-style
on Cal Poly float
SLO Tribune 1/2/07
Students from Cal Poly universities in San Luis
Obispo and Pomona entered a float Monday in their 59th consecutive Tournament
of Roses Parade.
A Los Alamitos firm, Cal State and Inland schools
hope to whet young appetites
Press-Enterprise 12/28/06
By Darrell Santschi
In his two-room office in a business complex
in Los Alamitos, wedged between a lumberyard, a plumber's shop and a
carpet distributor, Robert Kleinberger dreams of firing rockets into
space.
Chico State offers new programs
Sacramento Bee 12/26/06
By Christine Vovakes
California State University, Chico, is one of
12 CSU campuses to offer the new professional science master's degree,
or PSM, and the only one to have a program in environmental sciences.
California Insider Weblog: The diversity machine
Sacramento Bee 12/26/06
By Daniel Weintraub
One of the great untold stories of the past decade
is the rapid rise of the California State University system as an elevator
for moving ethnic minorities into the middle class.
Colleges Focus on Blacks
Press-Enterprise 12/26/06
By Marisa Agha
Two Inland area campuses are reaching out to black
students to increase their success in college.
College is a challenge for 11-year-old student
Mercury News 1/2/07
By Kristofer Noceda
Moments after his geology class ends, Terence
Candell Jr. calls his father.
Editorials/Commentary
Immigrant Children Shielded From State Tests,
but for Whose Protection?
New York Times 12/27/06
By Joseph Berger
“Put your pencils down!” Yannyn Suarez
commanded her third-grade English-as-second-language class. “Eyes
on me! Sit up straight!”
Bad Guess on U.S. Future
Washington Post 12/26/06
By Jay Mathews
The two words most likely to make education reporters
sigh wearily are "national" and "commission."
Fail exit exam, find little help
San Francisco Chronicle 1/2/07
Last spring, 18-year-old Koy Saechao was full
of hope. After years of struggling in school -- including some of them
being homeschooled -- she was on the verge of graduating from Valley
Community School in Merced. She had even earned more credits than she
needed to graduate.
When college aid competes with school reform
San Francisco Chronicle 1/2/07
By Bruce Fuller
Romancing swing voters, like other tentative
trysts, often yields soft promises, even broken hearts. Take the college-aid
proposals of new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, eager to signal that her
Democrat-led Congress will sooth the economic angst of middle-class
families, starting with making college more affordable.
College students need incentive
L.A. Daily News 1/2/07
By Gary Jason
The California community-college system has a
vital role to play in California's enviable state higher educational
system. But it does so at great expense to the taxpayer - some $8.6
billion a year - at virtually no cost to the student.
UC News
UC tech funding proposed
Sacramento Bee 12/28/06
By Clea Benson
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will seek $95 million
to boost technology research at California universities in the state
budget he proposes in January
California News
Governor's initiative encourages troops to
pursue higher education
North County Times 1/2/07
By Alexander DeLuca
When Nathaniel Donnelly was honorably discharged
from the Marine Corps after 8 1/2 years of service, he was unsure of
his future.
Tuition cut 23 percent at community colleges
Union-Tribune 12/30/06
By Chris Moran
The cost of taking a class at the state's 109
community college campuses will drop by 23 percent next week, a discount
that applies to more than 160,000 students in the county's five community
college districts.
Is retired Santa Ana teacher helping students
into science careers? Do the math
L.A. Times 1/2/07
By Yvonne Villarreal
Before her sophomore year in high school, Gloria
Alday never dreamed of going away to college. Her traditional Mexican
father didn't want her to leave the family home.
Catholic education in retreat
Oakland Tribune 1/2/07
By Katy Murphy
Two years ago, as the shuttered St. Cyril-Louis
Bertrand school building was being prepared for its new identity, the
crosses came down and the statues of Mary were removed from the alcoves
made to hold them.
Valley students not ready for college?
Modesto Bee 1/2/07
By Michelle Hatfield
Catch-up is an expensive game students shouldn't
be playing. Many high school graduates across the nation get diplomas
but lack the skills they need to succeed in college or join the work
force.
Retiree costs in state could hit $100 billion
Ventura Star 1/1/07
By Timm Herdt
When Charles Weis took over as superintendent
of the Ventura County Office of Education in 1993, he took a look at
the agency's employee benefits package and envisioned a potential train
wreck far into the future.
National News
Cheap laptops for Third World schoolchildren
CNN 1/107
Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up
with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries
get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007,
their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs.
As Democrats Take Over More States, College
Leaders Grow Optimistic
Chronicle of Higher Education 1/5/07
By Karin Fischer
A few weeks after breaking the Republicans' 16-year
lock on Massachusetts' highest office, Deval L. Patrick, the governor-elect,
traveled to the University of Massachusetts system's flagship campus,
in Amherst, and made a vow: He would champion the state's public colleges.
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