March 12, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Ex-CSUMB head faces scrutiny
Monterey Herald 3/11/07
By Larry Parsons
After almost two years in Paris as the top education official for the United Nations, Peter Smith's posting in the City of Light has attracted a dark cloud.
Students hope to add CSU to university name
San Francisco Chronicle 3/12/07
By Tanya Schevitz
Some students at San Jose State University who believe that their campus lacks prestige because it doesn't have California State University in its name have put an initiative on a student ballot to change that.
CSUF faculty set for strike vote
Fresno Bee 3/12/07
By Denny Boyles
More than 500 faculty members at Fresno State will vote this week on whether their union should authorize a strike against the nation's largest four-year higher education system over a salary dispute.
SJSU joins vote on strike
Mercury News 3/12/07
By Lisa M. Krieger
When faculty members of San Jose State University vote this week on their willingness to go on strike, one popular professor will be missing.
Cal Poly student fees may go up
SLO Tribune 3/12/07
By Nick Wilson
Cal Poly students could see a jump in their fees this fall if the California State University system’s Board of Trustees approves a proposed 10 percent increase this week.
'On edge' of extinction
Press-Democrat 3/12/07
By Bob Norberg
Turtles have been on earth for 230 million years and survived three mass extinctions, including the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. Now, Sonoma State University students are trying to help the western pond turtle survive urbanization, the most dire menace yet.
City will take Campus Pointe concerns to board
Clovis Independent 3/9/07
By Cindy Ryan
Upset by the commercial and residential complex proposed by California State University, Fresno, across from the Save Mart Center, the Clovis City Council directed city officials to attend a meeting of the CSU board of trustees next week in Long Beach.
Editorials/Commentary
Economic future: Colleges or prisons?
Times-Standard 3/10/07
By Milton Boyd
The State of California is facing a crisis that may well determine our economic future for decades.
Review of study about school accountability misses the mark
Sacramento Bee 3/11/07
By James S. Lanich
The review of our study of the California school accountability system misses the mark for accuracy and honesty. We proved the state's Academic Performance Index is a failure and should be abandoned.
Mini-dorm misery
Union-Tribune 3/11/07
Anybody who's ever suffered a sleepless night from an obnoxious neighbor can feel the pain of families tossed by the wake of San Diego State University.
Academic freedom
Contra Costa Times 3/12/07
With its $500 million research grant to UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois, energy giant BP doubled the amount of money for biofuel research worldwide.
UC News
Hike in Boalt Hall fees urged
L.A. Times 3/12/07
By Richard C. Paddock
It costs twice as much to attend UC Davis law school today as it did four years ago.
Same-sex fraternity seeks a niche at Cal
Oakland Tribune 3/12/07
By Alexandra Krasov
Late on a Tuesday night, in a small, cramped classroom on the University of California, Berkeley, campus, 25 guys crowd around a few pizza boxes, clutching lime-green fliers.
UC settles suit over construction site pollution
Santa Cruz Sentinel 3/12/07
By Rogert Sideman
UC Santa Cruz and a neighborhood group fighting university expansion settled a lawsuit last week with an agreement on how pollution from campus construction sites is handled.
UC law, med students are hit where it hurts
Sacramento Bee 3/12/07
By Eric Stern
Until the early 1990s, going to medical school, earning a law degree or getting an MBA at the University of California cost as much as undergraduate tuition for state residents.
California News
Science, math deficit holds back state
Contra Costa Times 3/11/07
By Shirley Dang
Amid the whir of an overhead projector, Concord High School biology teacher Ellen Fasman sketched out the long, chubby legs of an X-shaped chromosome with her erasable marker.
Donor to Stanford: No Big Oil
Mercury News 3/11/07
By Julie Sevrens Lyons
It's an engaging TV commercial. Kids swinging golf clubs, and not very well. Balls flying everywhere. People taking cover.
National News
Salaries Rise 3.8 Percent for Professors
Chronicle of Higher Education 3/12/07
By Scott Smallwood
Faculty salaries rose 3.8 percent this year, helped by larger increases at public universities than in recent years, according to a survey by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
States grapple with college textbook prices
CNN 3/9/07
Associated Press
Winona State University senior Rick Howden, a business administration major, figures he knows a bad deal when he sees it. A $4,500 tab for his college textbooks by the time he graduates? Bad deal.
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