February 13, 2007
CSU/Campus News
CSU campuses plan own version of 'Super Sunday'
East Bay Business Times 2/13/07
Two weeks after the Super Bowl -- that festival of football and hype that's played on what's often called "Super Sunday" -- officials of Cal State East Bay and other CSU campuses plan their own very different version on Sunday, Feb. 18.
Faculty Pickets Over Contract
Long Beach Gazette 2//8/07
By Carla M. Collado
The debate over a recent salary increase for California State University executives during stalled contract negotiations with CSU faculty heated up on Tuesday at the Long Beach campus.
Fresno State faculty OKs new surveillance policy
Fresno Bee 2/13/07
By Doug Hoagland
Campus cops at Fresno State will be able to go undercover during investigations, but they can't temporarily put video cameras in classrooms or faculty offices to catch suspected lawbreakers.
HSU budget cuts met with resistance
Times-Standard 2/13/07
By Ann Johnson-Stromberg
With a March 20 deadline looming for a reduced Humboldt State University budget, it is clear that there is still resistance to the inevitable $5 million reduction to the bottom line.
SSU students set up "camp in" against wars in Iraq, elsewhere
Press-Democrat 2/13/07
By Bob Norberg
A small group of Sonoma State University students set up tents Monday for a "camp-in" to protest wars in Iraq and elsewhere.
From behind the curtain: CSU professor gets inside view of Chinese medicine
Enterprise-Record 2/13/07
By Steve Brown
The People's Republic of China may be a communist country, but that doesn't mean citizens get their health care for free. About 50 percent of their costs must be paid out of pocket.
Editorials/Commentary
Realities about community colleges
Union-Tribune 2/13/07
By Constance M. Carroll
Earlier this month, the California community colleges were the focus of a provocative report that will spark an important public debate about state policy affecting this segment of higher education.
UC News
India is newest research partner
Sand Francisco Chronicle
By Rick DelVecchio
University of California scientists will join forces with peers in India to develop medicines, wireless networks, a new generation of secure software and other technologies that could boost India's economy and quality of life, UC announced Monday.
California News
Garamendi talks up education during stop
Bakersfield Californian 2/13/07
By Jenny Shearer
Lt. Gov. John Garamendi views investing in education as a national security issue and is concerned the state's failure to do so at the collegiate level will cause big problems in the future.
Lowest-scoring schools vie for special funds
San Francisco Chronicle 2/13/07
By Nanette Asimov
The race is on to see which of California's worst-performing schools will be the lucky winners of a rare prize: enough money to reduce overcrowding, to better train teachers, and to hire enough counselors to actually know their students.
Reducing class size sparking infighting
Union-Tribune 2/13/07
By Ed Mendel
A plan to spend a $2.9 billion lawsuit settlement on 500 low-performing schools over the next seven years, mainly to reduce class sizes, is creating controversy.
Demand rises to live on campus
L.A. Times 2/13/07
By Larry Gordon
When Jason Robinson transferred to UCLA in the fall as a third-year student, he considered living in a Westwood-area apartment. But then he was offered a spot in a new campus residence hall and joined a trend in Southern California and around the nation.
Former Sun CEO hopes the world is his classroom
San Francisco Chronicle
By Benjamin Pimentel
Scott McNealy likes to say that he stepped up, not down, from his former post as CEO of Sun Microsystems, the Silicon Valley giant he co-founded 25 years ago.
College urged to keep funds
Ventura Star 2/13/07
By John Scheibe
The head of a citizens committee charged with safeguarding $345 million earmarked to improve Ventura County's aging community colleges will present a resolution tonight opposing the use of the money for off-campus projects.
Disputed report criticizes colleges
Argus 2/13/07
By Angela Woodall and Matt Krupnick
Ohlone College isn't buying the findings of a recently released — and controversial — study that gave community colleges a failing grade for their performance in helping students complete their education.
National News
Duke Program Seeks to Expand Service Work
New York Times 2/13/07
By Jonathan D. Glater
Duke University announced yesterday that it would create a program backed by $30 million, half from a donation from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to help students work on projects like teaching at a school in Durham, N.C., or building one in Kenya.
Mexican-American High-School Students Perceive Many More Barriers to College Than Do Their White Peers
Chronicle of Higher Education 2/13/07
By Lauren Smith
While Mexican-American high-school students and their white peers desire equally to go to college, the former see many more obstacles in their path, according to a new study by researchers in Oregon that looked at "perceived barriers" to higher education.
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