January 30, 2007
CSU/Campus News
CSUS faculty marches for new contract
Sacramento Bee 1/30/07
By Eric Stern
About 200 professors, students and union organizers rallied at California State University, Sacramento, on Monday to protest frozen faculty wages.
Athletics got an undue boost
Fresno Bee 1/28/07
By George Hostetter
Fresno State poured corporate donations totaling at least $615,000 — and perhaps millions — into its sports program even though the donors prohibited that use for their money.
CSU faculty rejects offer, plans informational picket
San Francisco Chronicle 1/30/07
By Tanya Schevitz
The union representing California State University faculty members, who will set up an informational picket line at San Jose State on Wednesday, has rejected the university's offer of a 24.5 percent salary increase over the next four years.
CSUB, BC to join in yearlong self-study
Bakersfield Californian 1/30/07
Two colleges are launching a yearlong self-study about how to better students' first-year experiences.
Zingg celebrates three years at Chico State
Enterprise-Record 1/30/07
By Melissa Daugherty
With a recent $10,000 raise, Paul Zingg could celebrate his third anniversary at the helm of Chico State University in style.
Business professor wins top annual honor at CSUSB
San Bernardino Sun
By Robert Rogers
Lloyd Peake has worked and studied for decades, but nothing prepared the college professor to react to his university's president and a pack of esteemed colleagues barging into his classroom.
CSU Faculty: Statewide Strike Possible To Protest Exec. Pay Hikes
NBC-11 San Francisco 1/30/07
Professors and students rallied Monday at California State University, Sacramento to protest stalled contract negotiations. The protest in Sacramento will spread to all 23 CSU campuses statewide
Editorials/Commentary
'Balanced' budget is very shaky
Sacramento Bee 1/30/07
By Dan Walters
Three weeks ago, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled a new state budget for the 2007-08 fiscal year and declared that after a half-decade of multibillion-dollar deficits, "our new operating deficit has been reduced to zero."
Sacramento County faces retiree health squeeze
Sacramento Bee 1/30/07
By Daniel Weintraub
Today the Board of Supervisors in Sacramento County is scheduled to confront an issue with which government agencies across California and the nation will soon be grappling: the long-term cost of health benefits for retired public employees.
UC News
California Cities Resist the Growth of Campuses
Chronicle of Higher Education 2/2/07
By Josh Keller
The kazoo-playing poet Wavy Gravy, the former Berkeley mayor Shirley Dean, and a small army of other protesters have descended on a university-owned oak grove in Berkeley, Calif., in recent weeks.
Judge delays university's plans to build a new athletic training center on the Hayward Fault
San Francisco Chronicle 1/30/07
By Carolyn Jones
UC Berkeley's wide-ranging plans to upgrade Memorial Stadium and its environs came to a halt Monday when a judge sided with a group of tree-sitters, the city of Berkeley and irate neighbors opposed to the project.
National News
Studies Point to Value of AP
Inside Higher Ed 1/30/07
By Scott Jaschik
Two new studies financed by the College Board and about to be released find that students who complete Advanced Placement courses and take the tests that go with them see significant gains in their college performance.
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