April 4, 2007
CSU/Campus News
CBS-San Jose, 4/3/07
By Len Ramirez
Students at San Jose State University are developing a car that could someday run exhaust-free on electric, solar, and human power.
Press-Democrat
By Bob Norberg
Conservation measures taken at Sonoma State University should end a sewage capacity dispute with Rohnert Park that had the potential to derail the opening of the Green Music Center, officials said Tuesday.
Fresno Bee 4/2/07
By Doug Hoagland
Nematodes are not our friends, and a Fresno State professor wants to make them commit suicide.
Daily Bulletin 4/4/07
By Charlotte Hsu
Students, staff and other visitors piled into Cal State San Bernardino's ritzy new fitness center Tuesday, awed by its high ceilings, 34-foot rock-climbing wall and towering windows paned with blue glass.
Chronicle of Higher Education 4/4/07
By John Gravois
The California State University system has reached a tentative agreement on the terms of a four-year contract with its faculty union, thus averting what might have been the largest job action in higher-education history.
San Francisco Chronicle 4/4/07
By Jim Doyle
A labor showdown between the California State University system and its faculty union was averted Tuesday with a tentative accord on a new contract that provides a guaranteed pay increase of 20.7 percent over four years for professors, lecturers, coaches and librarians.
Sacramento Bee 4/4/07
By Phillip Reese
Administrators and faculty at California State University announced a tentative contract agreement Tuesday, eliminating the prospect of faculty strikes scheduled to start next week.
Union-Tribune 4/4/07
By Lisa Petrillo
California State University and its faculty reached a tentative contract agreement yesterday, days before rolling walkouts were to begin hitting CSU campuses, including in San Diego and San Marcos.
L.A. Times 4/4/07
By Larry Gordon
The faculty union and the Cal State University system announced a tentative settlement Tuesday in their long simmering contract dispute, boosting professors' pay by at least 20.7% over four years and averting threatened walkouts at the 23 campuses across the state.
Fresno Bee 4/4/07
By Marcus Wohlsen, AP
Plans for a faculty strike in the California State University system have slowed to a halt, as union members consider approving a tentative new contract settlement.
Enterprise-Record 4/4/07
By Roger Aylworth
A tentative contract agreement between the California State University and the faculty union seems to have averted planned rolling walkouts on the system's 23 campuses.
Contra Costa Times 4/4/07
By Matt Krupnick
The union representing 24,000 California State University faculty members has agreed to a tentative contract that would increase professors' pay nearly 25 percent in four years and avert a strike at the 417,000-student system.
Daily Bulletin 4/4/07
By Charlotte Hsu and Sahra Susman
The California State University system and its faculty union announced a tentative contract agreement Tuesday after two years of wrangling, putting on hold a series of planned two-day strikes.
Times-Standard 4/4/07
The strike is off and Robin Meiggs, Humboldt State University's faculty union chapter president, is relieved and pleasantly surprised.
L.A. Daily News 4/4/07
By Susan Abram
CSU faculty members will receive pay raises totaling at least 20 percent under a four-year agreement announced Tuesday, ending two years of contentious negotiations and averting a threatened strike.
Mercury News 4/4/07
By Lisa M. Krieger
A tentative agreement has been reached between California State University faculty and administrators, averting a strike and boosting the pay of educators in the 23-campus system.
Monterey Herald 4/4/07
By Clarissa Aljentera
The rolling strike planned for CSU-Monterey Bay has been postponed, as instructors and administrators for the California State University system reached a tentative agreement on faculty salary increases on Tuesday.
North County Times 4/4/07
By David Garrick
Faculty leaders in the California State University system reached a tentative contract agreement with the administration Tuesday morning that would increase the salaries of professors by at least 20.7 percent during the next four years.
Press-Enterprise 4/4/07
By Marisa Agha
California State University professors and other faculty members have reached a tentative agreement with system administrators, likely averting a series of rolling strikes that were set to begin this month at the nation's largest four-year public university system.
SLO Tribune 4/4/07
Faculty at Cal Poly and other California State Universities will get raises of at least 20.7 percent over four years under a tentative union contract announced Tuesday.
Press-Democrat 4/4/07
By Bob Norberg
A tentative agreement announced Tuesday between CSU and a union representing 25,000 teachers, including those at Sonoma State University, heads off strikes that were to begin next week.
Salinas Californian 4/4/07
By Robert Salonga
Two years of contract negotiations, the California State University system has reached a tentative agreement with its faculty union, halting for now a wave of teacher strikes planned for this month.
Ventura Star 4/4/07
By Jean Cowden Moore
California State University administrators and faculty have tentatively agreed on a pay raise, averting a potential strike.
Editorials/Commentary
Mercury News 4/4/07
With a strike threat looming, the administration and faculty of the California State University system on Tuesday tentatively settled a longstanding pay dispute. They did so wisely, with a few days to spare before a threatened strike.
Sacramento Bee 4/4/07
By Peter Schrag
We've had a bumper crop of new education reports from the eminent and powerful of late, all with one basic message: American public schools are lousy and urgently need reform, if not replacement.
San Bernardino Sun 4/3/07
Better late than never, the Alluvial Fan Task Force finally looks to be getting under way with a deal that has the state partnering with Cal State San Bernardino's Water Resources Institute to study the risks of building on flood plains.
Enterprise-Record 4/4/07
Now that everyone seems to have jumped on the sustainability bandwagon, maybe it's time to see what our role on the ride can be.
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