February 5, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Councils team up to bring university
LA Daily News 2/3/07
By Jim Skeen
The city councils of Palmdale and Lancaster pledged this week to work together to help bring a four-year university to the Antelope Valley, regardless of where it is located.
Picketing set over CSUCI negotiations
Ventura Star 2/3/07
By John Scheibe
Faculty members at California State University's newest campus are expected to picket Wednesday to call attention to stalled contract negotiations with administrators.
Admissions change more popular after five years
North County Times 2/4/07
By David Garrick
Five years after San Diego State University created an uproar by establishing stiffer admissions standards for students living north of Highway 56, local officials say student angst has subsided and that the policy is achieving its goals.
Editorials/Commentary
Congress should help students get through college
Modesto Bee 2/4/07
By Hamid Shirvani
Last month, the House of Representatives, under the leadership of the Democrats, approved legislation to cut student loan interest rates by half over a five-year period.
Pensions, politics a deadly duo
Sacramento Bee 2/4/07
By Dan Walters
When then-Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature handed public employee unions their long-cherished goal of full collective bargaining rights three decades ago, they probably didn't intend that financing pensions and health care for government workers would become a major headache.
Cal Poly good idea
Bakersfield Californian 2/5/07
Establishing a Cal Poly in eastern Kern County or the Antelope Valley may be considered competition for Cal State Bakersfield. But Bakersfield university officials are supportive of the idea that is, if it doesn't come at the expense of CSUB.
Bill could beat tuition trap
San Bernardino Sun 2/5/07
Proposed legislation that would give parents the opportunity to pay current tuition rates for children that, in some cases, won't reach college age for more than a decade is postive news in light of California's skyrocketing education costs.
Letters: It's not as easy as it seems
Enterprise-Record 2/3/07
The Jan. 26 editorial provided me with the impetus to write.
UC News
UCLA admissions crisis brings black leaders together
LA Daily News 2/5/07
By Brad Greenberg
The news last summer rippled out of Westwood and shook L.A.'s African-American community into action.
California News
Medical charter school proposed
Union-Tribune 2/4/07
By Helen Gao
A group of SDSU professors is partnering with Sharp Healthcare and San Diego City College to open a medically themed charter high school.
Officials at local colleges question study's findings
Daily Breeze 2/3/07
By Andrea Sudano
Only one out of four California community college students meet goals of transferring to a university or earning an associate's degree or certificate within six years, a new study released this week shows.
Easing the way to college
Mercury News 2/5/07
By Patty Fisher
With an exhausting job as a child care worker, limited English skills and two kids of her own to raise, there was no way Virginia Gonzalez was ever going to be able to go to community college.
So community college came to her.
Students Struggle to Stay Out of Debt
Press-Enterprise 2/4/07
By Marisa Agha
The rising cost of living is taking its toll on California's college students.
National News
Undergrads getting to help with research
USA Today 2/5/07
By Justin Pope, Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — In knee-high rubber boots, Jennifer Young peers out over a dozen or so sows and their litters, seemingly oblivious to the stench coming from their pens.
At Conference, College Officials Discuss Ways to Curb High-Risk Drinking on Campuses
Chronicle of Higher Education 2/5/07
By Paula Wasley
College health and student-affairs administrators discussed strategies to curb excessive drinking on campuses, at a conference sponsored here this weekend by Naspa--Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
Online classes go mainstream
L.A. Times 2/4/07
By Seema Mehta
After Ben Hathaway's father was called to active duty in the Army National Guard, the 15-year-old had to help his family tend the 130 head of cattle on their 345-acre farm in Leoma, Tenn.
Colleges reach out to prevent suicides
San Francisco Chronicle 2/4/07
By Carrie Sturrock
Not far into her freshman year, the once-outgoing and ambitious Dana Gatziolis started skipping classes, lost her appetite and slept whenever she could.
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