April 9, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Sacramento Bee 4/8/07
By Bobby Caina Calvan
To make concrete float, it takes a bit of wizardry -- not to mention precise proportions of cement, water, sand, drops of a chemical potion, and something called K46.
Times-Standard 4/7/07
By Karen Wilkinson
In standing up against a $202 proposed fee increase, Humboldt State University students plan to sit down Monday.
L.A. Daily News 4/9/07
By Susan Abram
High housing costs have made it difficult to recruit and retain veteran professors for the nation's largest university system, forcing the California State University to fill out its faculty with less-experienced educators, officials say.
SLO Tribune 4/8/07
By Sona Patel
Some Cal Poly students will spend their spring quarter helping to redesign a low-income housing project just outside Morro Bay.
Union-Tribune 4/8/07
By Amanda Branam
Supporters of the Cal State San Marcos athletic programs admit they have followed an unconventional course.
Enterprise-Record 4/8/07
By Heather Hacking
Nothing wasted, much gained. The ends of carrots from salads, food scraps from vegetables in tacos, coffee grounds, soggy lettuce, and beets and peas from the residence hall food service all have a new life under a program by a collaboration of departments at Chico State University.
Bakersfield Californian 4/8/07
Last fall, The Californian looked through more than 3,500 pages of receipts, travel statements, check requests and other paperwork documenting how Cal State Bakersfield researchers spent some $5 million of public money from several First 5 agencies
Bakersfield Californian 4/7/07
Since November 2004, The Californian had tried on and off to get details about First 5 Kern’s spending with Cal State Bakersfield and other contractors.
Editorials/Commentary
Ventura Star 4/6/07
By Kevin Volkan
We are writing in response to some of the recent letters that were published in the "Ventura County Star" and its online forum.
Calif. Progress Report 4/5/07
By Frank D. Russo
Assemblymember Dave Jones Jones is the author of legislation that would require all colleges and universities in California to remove Social Security numbers from their Internet-accessible files unless their inclusion is absolutely necessary.
L.A. Times 4/9/07
Providing federally guaranteed student loans is nice work if you can get it. The market, worth more than $50 billion annually, is protected against virtually all losses.
L.A. Times 4/9/07
By Meghan Daum
In the last
few weeks, the anxiety of high school seniors awaiting news of their college fates seems to have spilled over into the general population.
Fresno Bee 4/7/07
A survey of some Fresno students raises concerns about the level and quality of counseling that they're getting in local high schools.
Mercury News 4/6/07
We still don't know how developer Lew Wolff wants San Jose to help him build a football and soccer stadium at San Jose State University.
UC News
Sacramento Bee 4/6/07
By Bill Lindelof
Fewer students have been offered admission to the University of California, Davis, than last year -- when larger than expected numbers eventually took college officials up on their offer to attend the campus.
National News
New York Times 4/9/07
By Winnie Hu
OSSINING, N.Y. — In an effort to ensure racial diversity, the school system here in northern Westchester County is set up in an unusual way, its six school buildings divided not by neighborhood but by grade level.
Chronicle of Higher Education 4/9/07
By Elyse Ashburn
A recovering alcohol and drug addict in her 30s. A former truck driver who lived in his car for six months. And a single mother with epilepsy. Each of them is part of an all-too-often invisible class of Americans: adult college students.
Inside Higher Ed 4/9/07
By Scott Jaschik
A student in a public university dormitory room had a “reasonable expectation of privacy” for his personal computer and its hard drive, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Inside Higher Ed 4/9/07
By Andy Guess
For four decades, the University of California at Los Angeles has administered the Cooperative Institutional Research Program Freshmen Survey.
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