January 17, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Applications up
Salinas Californian1/16/07
By Robert Salonga
A dramatic increase in applications at California State University, Monterey Bay, is a promising sign that the 12-year-old school is transforming into the regional powerhouse its leaders envision, administrators say.
Cal State acts to fill innovation's need
Daily Bulletin 1/17/07
By Sahra Susman
Evolution Robotics Inc. is a Pasadena-based company specializing in breakthrough technology and the business of making everyday products smarter.
Faculty upset over stalled contract talks
SLO Tribune 1/17/07
By Cynthia Neff
A few dozen Cal Poly faculty members made public their frustration with stalled contract negotiations in an informational picket Tuesday on campus.
Editorials/Commentary
Educating Democrats
Wall St. Journal 1/17/07
House Democrats have scheduled a vote for today on a proposal that would reduce the interest rate on student loans. The ostensible goal is to make college more affordable, but such a move could well wind up having the opposite effect.
UC News
For many minorities, UC Riverside is the campus of choice
L.A. Times 1/15/07
By Richard C. Paddock
When it was time for Woodrow Curry to decide where to go to university, he had several choices. An African American with good high school grades and test scores, he was accepted by UC Berkeley, among other schools.
At Berkeley Law, a Challenge to Overcome All Barriers
New York Times 1/17/07
By Jonathan D. Glater
Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1960s, Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the flagship law school of the University of California, learned early about racial discrimination.
Regents to limit corporate board service for UC executives
Union-Tribune 1/17/07
By Eleanor Yang Su
How much time should University of California leaders spend advising and providing financial oversight for corporations as paid board members?
UCSC's $80 million lab facility gets go-ahead despite protest
Santa Cruz Sentinel 1/17/07
By Roger Sideman
Despite seven outstanding lawsuits challenging expansion at UC Santa Cruz and the threat of more, a key UC regents committee on Tuesday approved the first major construction project under the campus' new growth plan.
UC considers prohibiting tobacco-funded research
Union-Tribune 1/17/07
By Eleanor Yang Su
Darwin Berg worries about accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from tobacco giant Philip Morris USA to study how the brain works.
California News
Funds jump-start 2,000 after-school programs
Sacramento Bee 1/17/07
By Laurel Rosenhall
On one end of the Camellia Basic Elementary School yard Tuesday afternoon, children did jumping jacks, toe touches and arm circles.
Oxnard College expands offerings for military
Ventura Star 1/17/07
By John Scheibe
Oxnard College has been named a Servicemembers Opportunity College, a designation that should make it easier for the school to provide more college courses to military personnel at Naval Base Ventura County and increase enrollment at the campus.
Tax cost soars to pay retired public workers
LA Daily News 1/16/07
By Troy Anderson
California taxpayers forked out $10.2 billion for public employee pensions in 2003-04 and are likely to face even greater liability in future years.
National News
A symbol of class clowning gives high schoolers a lift
USA Today 1/17/07
By Mary Beth Marklein
It's not every day that adults encourage teens to "be a pain in the behind," but a poster in a national multimedia public service campaign advises students who want to go to college to do exactly that.
Richer Students Receive Much More Merit-Based Aid Than Do Poorer Ones, Study Finds
Chronicle of Higher Education 1/17/07
By Elizabeth Farrell
Merit scholarships are disproportionately awarded to students from high-income families, and the percentage of merit aid colleges give out, compared to need-based aid, has increased significantly since 1994, according to report scheduled for release today.
Community colleges aim for more respect
Christian Science Monitor 1/17/07
By Stacy A. Teicher
Mike Loughran doesn't want to meander through his education. The 35-year-old says he's gone back to school "hard core," taking night and weekend classes at Massasoit Community College in southeastern Massachusetts, the very place he dropped out of after high school to join the Marines.
Another Front on Accreditation
Inside Higher Ed 1/17/07
By Doug Lederman
After months of uncertainty, the U.S. Education Department has decided to begin a process next month in which it will explore possible changes in the federal rules that govern the higher education accreditation process.
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