January 5, 2007
Editorials/Commentary
Hazing policies deserve scrutiny
Daily Breeze 1/5/07
No charges will be filed in an alleged hazing
incident last year involving members of the women's soccer team at California
State University, Dominguez Hills. That was the word from the county
District Attorney's Office this week.
Must colleges tolerate intolerance?
Sacramento Bee 1/5/07
By J.R. Labbe
Proof that tolerance is becoming intolerable:
Students willingly attending a university that was founded at the request
of the Anglican church are miffed because there's a cross in the sanctuary
of the campus chapel.
Governor promotes job training
Sacramento Bee 1/5/07
By Dan Walters
Whatever else one might say about Arnold Schwarzenegger's
political career -- and it's a mixed bag -- he deserves boundless credit
for being the first governor in living memory to make improving the
state's shameful neglect of work-oriented education a priority.
Preparing the teachers of tomorrow
Union-Tribune 1/5/07
By Marye Anne Fox and Mark Thiemens
To remain at the forefront of discovery, innovation
and entrepreneurship, California must ensure that our students excel
in mathematics and the sciences.
California News
College libraries: the condensed version
L.A. Times 12/25/06
By Larry Gordon
For a first-time visitor to the back closet of
the UC system's libraries, the experience is like a dizzying optical
illusion.
Rising college costs crimp families' funds
Ventura Star 1/5/07
By Jean Cowden Moore
As college costs rise, so does parents' anxiety
over how they're going to pay for it.
Mayor, L.A. Unified back in court to renew
battle over school control
L.A. Times 1/4/07
By Duke Helfand and Joel Rubin
Attorneys for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and
the Los Angeles Unified School District were back in court Wednesday
fighting over whether Villaraigosa should be allowed to proceed with
plans to take partial control of the school district despite a legal
ruling last month that gutted his effort.
National News
High Schoolers Clamor for Higher-Tech College
Recruitment
Chronicle of Higher Education 1/4/07
By Brock Read
If colleges really want to win the affection of
prospective students, they ought to rip a page from the playbook used
by Facebook and MySpace, says a new report.
More Moral and Practical Law Schools
Inside Higher Ed 1/5/07
By Eliazabeth Redden
Law schools need to do a better job integrating
the teaching of legal doctrine with a much stronger focus on helping
students develop practical “lawyering” skills and understandings
of ethical and moral considerations, according to a new study from the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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