January 11, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Poly faculty set to picket over stalled contract talks
SLO Tribune 1/11/07
By Cynthia Neff
Cal Poly faculty members, unhappy with stalled contract negotiations that have dragged on more than 18 months, are taking their concerns to the picket line.
Poly students back after 2nd fire
SLO Tribune 1/11/07
By AnnMarie Cornejo
About 50 Cal Poly students were allowed back in their off-campus apartments Wednesday after a fire the night before left them temporarily without shelter.
CSU instructors union may strike, Maritime Academy chapter warns
Times-Herald 1/11/07
By Sarah Rohrs
With contract talks "completely disintegrating," college instructors statewide could strike this spring for better pay, California Maritime Academy instructor Tuuli Messer-Bookman said Wednesday.
CSU response to faculty picket
SLO Tribune 1/11/07
CSU Statement Regarding Negotiations With the Faculty Union
Editors: This statement is the CSU's official response to a demonstration by the faculty union scheduled for Jan. 16 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Cal Poly Pomona professors protest
Daily Bulletin 1/11/07
By Sahra Susman
About 40 Cal Poly Pomona professors took up pickets early Wednesday to protest prolonged contract talks with California State University executives.
Editorials/Commentary
Rancheria wins big by giving to university
Fresno Bee 1/11/07
By Bill McEwen
I guess John Welty reads this column.
A few months back, after Chukchansi agreed to pay $16million for naming rights to Fresno's municipal stadium, I wrote a wise-mouth piece saying we should plaster more casino names on our local treasures.
Voc-ed prudence
Press-Enterprise 1/11/07
Boosting vocational education is not a big, splashy initiative like reforming health care or cutting global warming. Yet Gov. Schwarzenegger's plans to bolster technical education in California deserve a high profile, too, because better vocational programs are vital to providing the state with workers trained for the future.
As We See It: Free speech not valued
Santa Cruz Sentinel 1/11/07
The cancellation of a job fair at UC Santa Cruz is more evidence of one of the biggest failures in American higher education.
California News
Vocational education: State OKs new frameworks
Sacramento Bee 1/11/07
By Laurel Rosenhall
What happened: In a unanimous vote followed by cheers and applause, the state Board of Education approved new curriculum frameworks that will guide the way middle and high schools across California teach job skills.
Schwarzenegger's balancing act of spending and cuts
San Francisco Chronicle 1/11/07
By Lynda Gledhill
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger released a proposed $143.4 billion budget Wednesday that largely holds the line on spending and whittles down the deficit with a combination of accelerated repayment of debt, additional tax money brought on by higher gasoline prices and cuts to welfare programs and public transit districts.
Big tuition increases proposed
San Francisco Chronicle 1/11/07
By Tanya Schevitz
The governor's proposed budget projects hefty tuition increases for the state's 610,000 university students, including a 10 percent undergraduate tuition hike for the California State University system and a 7 percent boost at the University of California.
College students vow to fight tuition raises
Contra Costa Times 1/11/07
By Matt Krupnick and Shirley Dang
California university students learned Wednesday that their brief respite from fee increases may be over.
California college fee hikes are proposed
Daily Breeze 1/11/07
By Michelle Locke
Fees could be going up for California's public university students under the budget proposed Wednesday by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
National News
Return on college endowments rises for third straight year
USA Today 1/10/07
By Mary Beth Marklein
U.S. colleges and universities continued a three-year streak of "pretty good returns" on their endowments by earning 10.6% in 2006, a report shows.
Colleges Should Teach Broader Skills to Prepare Students for Work Force, Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education 1/11/07
By Erik Vance
The Association of American Colleges and Universities, a leading advocate for liberal-arts education, warned on Wednesday that college graduates are increasingly less prepared to compete in the global economy.
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