April 18, 2007
CSU/Campus News
San Francisco Chronicle 4/18/07
By Tanya Schevitz
Special perks and extra compensation awarded to top executives of the California State University system must be investigated by state auditors, a California legislative committee decided Tuesday.
KCAL-9, 4/17/07
CBS News
The deadly shooting today on a Virginia college campus struck a familiar chord at Cal State Fullerton, where a man gunned down seven people in 1976.
Sacramento Business Journal 4/17/07
By Kelly Johnson
California State University Sacramento will soon begin its search for a developer to build a faculty and staff housing village on 25 acres south of campus.
CBC-5, 4/17/07
Associated Press
The family of a student who died at a fraternity house after a weekend of drinking is suing Cal State Fresno and the fraternity for wrongful death.
Union-Tribune 4/18/07
By Lisa Petrillo and Sherry Saavedra
High-rise dorms are coming to San Diego State, in what officials hope will ease the escalating conflict between College Area neighbors and the growing 34,000-student university.
Fresno Bee 4/18/07
By Diana Marcum
Novelist Steve Yarbrough's Southern drawl is tinged with grief not only over the carnage at the university where he once taught, but with worry over whether creative writing instructors will again be faced with trying to tell the difference between a student's disturbing fiction and a sign of danger.
Mercury News 4/18/07
By Barry Witt and Jon Wilner
Deep divisions have opened between developer Lew Wolff and San Jose State University over a deal to rebuild the school's stadium to suit both Spartans football and professional soccer.
Press-Telegram 4/18/07
By Tracy Manzer
Cal State Long Beach police plan to meet with other local law enforcement and public safety agencies in light of the recent shooting rampage carried out at Virginia Tech, authorities said Tuesday.
Editorials/Commentary
Press-Enterprise 4/17/07
America cannot effectively fight terrorism without good intelligence. So a new academic program at Cal State San Bernardino that focuses on intelligence careers is good not just for the Inland school, but also for the country.
Sacramento Bee 4/18/07
By Peter Schrag
The rusty American ed-policy pendulum, which makes a half cycle every generation or so, is about to swing back again. The hot new words are "flexibility" and "CTE," career technical education, once known as vocational training.
UC News
Fresno Bee 4/18/07
By Doug Hoagland
The new chancellor at UC Merced lobbed his best sales pitch. His audience -- top students at Sunnyside High School in Fresno -- listened respectfully and munched away.
Contra Costa Times 4/18/07
By Matt Krupnick
The numbers are startling: Four of every 10 college students have been so depressed at some point in the past year that they were unable to function.
California News
North County Times 4/17/07
By David Garrick
As news of Monday's shootings at Virginia Tech University reached North County's three college campuses, staff and students said they felt their schools were as prepared as possible for such an event.
Sacramento Bee 4/18/07
By Laurel Rosenhall and Phillip Reese
Emergency preparedness is an integral part of university life, one that has come into focus for the days following Monday's massacre at Virginia Tech.
L.A. Times 4/18/07
Associated Press
California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown jumped into the burgeoning student loan scandal Tuesday by demanding that two finance companies turn over details of their business deals with state colleges and universities.
L.A. Times 4/18/07
By Joel Rubin and Howard Blume
A state appeals court today soundly renounced a law designed to give Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa substantial authority over the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Daily Breeze 4/18/07
By Sandy Mazza
Los Angeles Harbor College President Linda Spink was in Florida on Monday when a 22-year-old student at Virginia Tech went on his deadly rampage.
SLO Tribune 4/17/07
By Sally Connell
At Cal Poly and Cuesta College, local police officers say they would immediately try to take out the shooter in a situation similar to Monday’s Virginia Tech incident - instead of securing the area and waiting for a Special Weapons and Tactics team to arrive.
National News
Meadow Free Press 4/17/07
By Jordan Robertson, AP
San Jose, Calif. - Since Sun Microsystems Inc. co-founder Scott McNealy stepped down as chief executive to focus on his chairmanship full-time, he‘s been spearheading a side project to transform education the way digital music upended the recording industry.
Inside Higher Ed 4/18/07
By Scott Jaschik
Last Friday at the University of Michigan, there was a small fire in an academic building. The alarms went off and police arrived quickly. They found students in another part of the building.
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