April 23, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Sacramento Bee 4/21/07
By Phillip Reese
In an effort to turn Sacramento State into more of a live-in campus, college officials plan to add hundreds of residential rooms, lofts -- even houses for faculty and staff members -- in the next few years.
Mercury News 4/21/07
By Janice Rombeck
Perched halfway up a ladder, San Jose State University student Dmitry Vulfovich stretched his arm high to reach an area he was painting just under the roof of a small cottage.
SLO Tribune 4/22/07
By Sona Patel
A team of Cal Poly engineers won more than $20,000 for designing a vehicle that could virtually get a driver from San Luis Obispo to the southernmost tip of Texas on one gallon of gasoline.
Times-Herald 4/23/07
Sara Holmgren
On the very morning that students at Virginia Tech were massacred by a gunman, Rosann Richard was in and out of orientations, her first day on the job as chief of police and director of public safety at California Maritime Academy.
Eureka Reporter 4/20/07
By Courtney Hunt-Munther
A day after Humboldt State University President Rollin Richmond announced his final decisions regarding the school’s 2007-08 budget, members of the University Budget Committee expressed mixed reactions to the reductions
Union-Tribune 4/20/07
By Kelly Thornton
The mother of a man charged with making threats against San Diego State University – a day after the violence at Virginia Tech – apologized to the community yesterday.
Editorials/Commentary
San Francisco Chronicle 4/23/07
Democracy on a university campus can be a messy, imperfect business.
Sacramento Bee 4/21/07
State schools chief Jack O'Connell reported two pieces of good news this week about the state's high school exit exam.
Mercury News 4/23/07
A free football stadium for San Jose State, the return of professional soccer to San Jose, all without a penny from city taxpayers. It was a deal proposed by developer Lew Wolff that sounded too good to be true. And sure enough, it was.
North County Times 4/23/07
By Dennis M. Clausen
So much gets lost in heated rhetoric whenever academic issues become publicly controversial.
UC News
Santa Cruz Sentinel 4/21/07
By Roger Sideman
A Superior Court judge on Friday tossed out two voter-approved measures that seek to restrict university expansion, saying city officials did not adequately notify the public before placing the measures on the ballot.
Orange County Register 4/22/07
By Marla Jo Fisher
On March 30, just after midnight, a student was found sprawled in the stairwell on the second floor of UCI's Social Science Building. He had a gunshot wound to the head, apparently a suicide.
California News
Union-Tribune 4/21/07
By Sherry Saavedra
Earth-friendly UCSD student activists are building a device that converts cafeteria grease into biodiesel to power their automobiles.
Daily Breeze 4/21/07
By Shelly Leachman
Creative writing instructor Adrienne Sharp knows how it feels to be so alarmed by the content of a student story that she doubted the author's stability.
L.A. Times 4/23/07
By Joel Rubin and Howard Blume
Classroom rugs are rolled up and pushed against the wall. Collapsible bookshelves are folded down and a mobile computer lab is whisked away.
National News
New York Times 4/21/07
By Julie Bosman
Rachel Jones, a senior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, recently was sitting through a student-loan workshop that university officials had told her was mandatory when an uneasy feeling kicked in.
Inside Higher Ed 4/23/07
By Scott Jaschik
When the U.S. Supreme Court considered a case last year over the free speech rights of public employees, some academics watched nervously.
Other Sites of Interest
CSU Leader
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CSU Newsline
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Rough and Tumble
Daily California and political news.
