January 19, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Shower power
Union-Tribune 1/18/07
By Mike Lee
Outside Edward Beighley's lab at San Diego State, the skies were clear and the air balmy.
Building a Legacy
Modesto Bee 1/18/07
By Michael R. Shea
Guests in black-tie and ball gowns mingled around construction cones and exposed wiring. A string quartet strummed baroque favorites in a corner near a pile of exposed drywall and aluminum paneling.
CSUB says fundraising campaign is a success
Central Valley Business Times 1/18/07
More than $6 million has been pledged to California State University, Bakersfield’s campaign to move its athletic program to NCAA Division I, the university says.
Zingg makes a commitment to the climate
Enterprise-Record 1/19/07
By Melissa Daugherty
Paul Zingg is helping to lead a charge of Chico State University and other college presidents and universities committed to fighting global warming.
Neighbors irked by CSU housing plan
Daily Review 1/19/07
By Kristofer Noceda
What started out as a meeting to show the public how a joint-venture would benefit the local university and school district instead shifted toward discussing the needs of the community.
Lower rates could kick-start careers
Imperial Valley Press 1/19/07
By Jonathan Dale
There is one thing Guadalupe Tiznado will not be looking forward to upon graduation from San Diego State University-Imperial Valley campus — repaying her student loans.
Leave us out of faculty pay flap, CSU students say
Modesto Bee 1/19/07
By Michelle Hatfield
A bitter salary dispute between California State University administrators and faculty is causing some student organizations to declare their neutrality.
Protest against fee increase set at CSUCI
Ventura Star 1/19/07
By John Scheibe
Student leaders from California State University's 23 campuses will meet at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo over the next three days to map out their campaign opposing a 10 percent undergraduate fee increase being proposed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for the 2007-08 school year.
Cal State East Bay to award degree to Oakland murder victim
CBS-5 San Francisco 1/19/07
Cal State University, East Bay will hold a special ceremony today to posthumously award a degree to Winta Mehari, a 28-year-old Berkeley woman who was one of three members of an Eritrean family murdered in Oakland on Thanksgiving Day.
UC News
As College Grows, a City Is Asking, ‘Who Will Pay?’
New York Times 1/19/07
By Carolyn Marshall
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — For most of the last 40 years, this eclectic seaside city and its University of California campus have lived in relative harmony.
Regents limit execs' outside affiliations
San Francisco Chronicle 1/19/07
By Tanya Schevitz
The UC Board of Regents unanimously approved a new policy Thursday to limit university executives to serving on no more than three for-profit corporate boards.
UC delays tobacco funds vote
Sacramento Bee 1/19/07
By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
University of California faculty members should be asked to state their position much more clearly on whether researchers should be banned from taking tobacco industry funds, UC regents agreed Thursday.
UC to let students know fees may rise this fall
North County Times (AP) 1/19/07
By Michelle Locke
University of California officials are letting students know they may have to pay more this fall.
UC Berkeley seeks to tap into 'billions' for buildings
Argus 1/19/07
By Ian Hoffman
Even as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger asks California lawmakers for more than $47 billion in new bond debt, the University of California itself is weighing "billions" in bond financing for new buildings
California News
Group Opposed to Illegal Immigrants Sues California College for Refusing Access to Its Campus
Chronicle of Higher Education 1/19/07
By Elyse Ashburn
The Minuteman Project, an organization that opposes illegal immigrants' presence in the United States, is suing a California community college and its former president, alleging that the institution denied the group's application to hold a forum on its campus because of the group's beliefs.
National News
Costs keep students from first-choice colleges
USA Today 1/19/07
By Mary Beth Marklein
Fewer college freshmen are attending their top choice of schools, and many appear to be doing so not because they were rejected by their first choice but for financial reasons, a national survey shows.
Holding Trustees Accountable
Inside Higher Ed 1/19/07
By Doug Lederman
This has been a challenging couple of years for university and other nonprofit governing boards.
Profiling the American Freshman
Inside Higher Ed 1/19/07
By Elia Powers
How do you construct a narrative about college freshmen these days? Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles take their shot annually with a survey of 270,000 entering undergraduates at roughly 400 colleges across the country.
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