January 4, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Testing for Technology Literacy
Inside Higher Ed 1/4/07
By Paul D. Thacker
Professors, librarians, and other college officials
are increasingly coming to grips with the somewhat confounding reality
that despite students’ affinity for IPods and their complete comfort
with Google, many of them lack the technological literacy they need
to navigate today’s information landscape.
CSU San Marcos students believe activity aids
them
Union-Tribune 1/4/07
By Lisa Petrillo
They're engaging at CSU San Marcos.
No charges filed in alleged CSUDH soccer hazing
Daily Breeze 1/4/07
By Larry Altman
Prosecutors have decided not to file criminal
charges in an alleged hazing initiation involving women's soccer players
at California State University, Dominguez Hills, saying they could not
determine whether anything went beyond college high jinks.
University digging in downtown
San Bernardino Sun 1/4/07
By Megan Blaney
Cal State San Bernardino will soon be available
in a "convenient downtown San Bernardino location."
Cal State joins County Sheriff’s Department
Highland Community News 1/4/07
Two nursing department faculty members and 15
nursing students at Cal State San Bernardino joined the Medical Reserve
Corps of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department at a ceremony
Dec. 12.
California News
State's children less likely to succeed
San Francisco Chronicle 1/4/07
By Nanette Asimov
Children growing up in California, fabled land
of opportunity, have a worse chance of achieving the American Dream
than children in most other states, a new study says.
Education for less
Sacramento Bee 1/4/07
By Eric Stern
California's community colleges are bucking a
national trend of tuition increases by slashing fees more than 20 percent
when students return to classes this month.
Schwarzenegger budget could boost career training
in valley
Desert Sun 1/4/07
By Jake Henshaw
Programs to prepare students for careers instead
of college degrees will get $52 million in the budget that Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger will propose next week, administration officials said
Wednesday.
National News
Online database opens a window for parents
to compare schools
USA Today 1/4/07
By Greg Toppo
Want to know how early your son's second-grade
teacher has to arrive at school each morning? Whether she hands in lesson
plans each week?
Trying to Find Solutions in Chaotic Middle
Schools
New York Times 1/4/07
By Elissa Gootman
Sit in with a seventh-grade science class at
Seth Low, a cavernous Brooklyn middle school, as paper balls fly and
pens are flicked from desk to desk.
States Vary Greatly in How Well They Prepare
Children for College, Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education 1/4/07
By Peter Schmidt
A person's chances of earning a college degree
vary greatly depending on the state in which he or she was raised, according
to a report released on Wednesday by Editorial Projects in Education,
publisher of the newspaper Education Week.
Other Sites of Interest
CSU Leader
CSU'S Weekly e-news publication.
CSU Newsline
The latest CSU Campus News.
Rough and Tumble
Daily California and political news.
