February 8, 2007
CSU/Campus News
`CS Sushi' honor roll
Press-Telegram 2/7/07
By Susan Abram
CAMARILLO - Four years after entering the stucco-and-tile Spanish-revival buildings, Kristi Adame is about to emerge as one of the pioneers.
First 5 to keep working with CSUB researchers
Bakersfield Californian 2/8/07
By Jenny Shearer
First 5 Kern commissioners opted to keep Cal State Bakersfield researchers under contract Wednesday.
HSU gets $610,000 grant
The Times-Standard 2/8/07
The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year $610,917 grant to the Computing Science Department at Humboldt State University to finance the Coalition for American Indians in Computing project.
Schatz Center readies hydrogen fuel station
Times-Standard 2/8/07
Engineers at Humboldt State University's Schatz Energy Research Center are designing and will install a campus hydrogen fueling station
Universities register for virtual future
ZDNet News 2/7/08
If you want to know what higher education will look like in a few years, you might ask Charles Reed, chancellor of the largest four-year university system in the United States.
SFSU protest blasts regents' finances
Oakland Tribune 2/8/07
By James Woodard
California state Sen. Leland Yee joined hundreds of faculty and students at San Francisco State University as they picketed the chancellor's office early Wednesday afternoon.
Cal Poly to pay for creek cleanup
SLO Tribune 2/8/07
By David Sneed
Cal Poly has agreed to pay for the rehabilitation of nearly half an acre along Stenner Creek as part of a settlement announced this week for violating clean-water rules last year.
CSUCI faculty members picket
Ventura Star 2/8/07
By Kathleen Wilson
Wearing black T-shirts saying "I don't want to strike but I will," faculty members seeking pay increases held an informational protest Wednesday at California State University, Channel Islands.
Editorials/Commentary
S.F. State -- Hecklers' paradise
San Francisco Chronicle 2/8/07
By Debra J. Saunders
What is San Francisco State University teaching that makes student leaders think that if they don't like what other students say, they can use student organizations to stifle those with dissenting views?
California failing college education
Sacramento Bee 2/8/07
By Jim Boren
I always get a bit cranky when people start talking about the good old days. For the most part, those days were never as good as we remember.
Wake-up call for colleges
Ventura Star 2/8/07
California's 109 community colleges are often called the least costly and best hope for meeting our future work-force needs. So, it's unsettling to learn they may be falling short.
UC News
Tobacco on Trial in California
Inside Higher Ed 2/8/07
By Paul D. Thacker
During a meeting last month to discuss banning University of California researchers from taking support from tobacco companies, several members of the university’s Board of Regents argued that such a ban would violate academic freedom.
California News
Yee bill would require open meetings on UC, CSU pay
San Francisco Chronicle 2/8/07
State Sen. Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, introduced legislation Wednesday requiring the governing boards of the University of California and the California State University system to meet in open session when discussing executive compensation.
National News
Bowles calls for 'refocus' of UNC
News & Observer 2/3/07
By Jane Stancill
Universities have to become more relevant and responsive to North Carolina's changing economy, much like the state's community colleges, UNC President Erskine Bowles said Friday at N.C. State University.
Federal Law Drains Resources for the Gifted
New York Times 2/8/07
By Joseph Berger
Adam Harris has built a robot whose arms bang out “Hot Cross Buns” on a piano keyboard. Cinzia Alfano is cobbling together a board game that teaches players why the Titanic sank so quickly — in sophisticated engineering detail.
States hopeful that mentoring will retain new teachers
CNN 2/8/07
Associated Press
States from Oregon to Georgia are considering pouring millions of dollars into mentoring programs for new teachers, aiming to stop educators from spending just a few years in the classroom before leaving the field.
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