March 14, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Report: SDSU ahead of curve in remediation
Union-Tribune 3/14/07
By Sherry Saavedra
California State University hasn't come close to meeting the goal of preparing 90 percent of first-time freshmen for college, though SDSU students are faring better than the systemwide average.
Campus Pointe development wins CSU panel's approval
Fresno Bee 3/14/07
By Russell Clemings
Campus Pointe, a proposed 45-acre commercial project on Fresno State land, won the unanimous endorsement Tuesday of a committee of California State University trustees.
English, math scores down for Kern students
Bakersfield Californian 3/14/07
By Jenny Shearer
The percentage of Kern's high school students who entered California State University campuses in 2006 ready to do college-level work was lower than a year before.
Most CSUDH freshmen need remedial work in English, math
Daily Breeze 3/14/07
By Paul Clinton
About six of every seven freshmen who entered California State University, Dominguez Hills, needed remedial help in either English or math, making last year's crop of incoming students the worst prepared freshman class in the CSU system, according to a study presented Tuesday to the CSU board of trustees.
Unprepared freshmen pervade CSU system
Mercury News 3/14/07
By Lisa M. Krieger
Nearly half of the first-time freshmen admitted to San Jose State University last fall were not prepared for college English and one-third were not prepared for college math, according to new data presented Tuesday during a meeting of the California State University Board of Trustees.
Struggling CSUSM freshmen need more help
North County Times 3/14/07
By David Garrick
Cal State San Marcos continues to rank behind virtually all other campuses in the California State University system when it comes to bringing freshmen students up to speed if they arrive at the university with poor math and English skills.
CSU Regents Consider Student Fee Increase
ABC News-10, 3/14/07
By Alicia Malaby
The regents of California State University plan to vote Wednesday on a 10 percent student fee hike for the 2007-2008 school year.
Editorials/Commentary
College affordability is more than fees
Sacramento Bee 3/14/07
By By Robert Shireman
With the fee reduction that went into effect in January, California's community colleges went from being the lowest-tuition colleges in the country by far to being the lowest by even further.
College admission: The board game
USA Today 3/14/07
By William Caskey
As spring approaches and high school seniors anticipate decisions from colleges, there isn't a day that I don't contemplate inventing a board game based on the college admission process.
College freshmen still weak on skills
Daily Breeze 3/14/07
As it meets in Long Beach this week, the California State University Board of Trustees faces the mounting challenges of a faculty labor dispute and the effects of student fee increases.
Basically unskilled
L.A. Daily News 3/14/07
If we needed more evidence of the failure of Los Angeles schools - and the need for an education revolution - the report that huge numbers of California State University, Northridge, freshmen lack basic math and English skills should do it.
UC News
UC issues annual compensation report on time
San Francisco Chronicle 3/14/07
By Tanya Schevitz
For the first time in four years, University of California officials have released on time an annual report on executive pay and senior managers' corporate board service for the previous year after being criticized for hiding compensation from the public and the governing Board of Regents.
7 boards generous to UCSD chancellor
Union-Tribune 3/14/07
By Chris Moran
UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox earned more than $300,000 last year for service on corporate and nonprofit boards, according to a report released yesterday by the University of California chancellor's office.
California News
Regulation of career colleges likely expire, then change
Press-Enterprise 3/13/07
By Douglas Quan
In Troy Johnson's Riverside auto fabrication school, where students learn how to design and build custom off-road vehicles, a framed certificate hangs in the front office telling visitors that the school meets state standards for educational quality.
Study calls for more targeted school funding
San Francisco Chronicle 3/14/07
By Greg Lucas, Nanette Asimov
A soon-to-be-released study of California's public education system says the state will have to stop pouring money blindly into schools -- and spend far more money specifically on kids with the highest needs -- if it wants every student to succeed.
UC, CSU weighing fee hikes up to 10%
L.A. Daily News 3/14/07
By Michelle Locke, AP
The cost of going to college in California could be about to go up, with the two public university systems set to consider hikes of up to 10 percent.
Outdoor forensic study site considered
Sacramento Bee 3/14/07
By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
It would be one of California's most distinctive laboratories. Researchers would trek into grassy meadows or up wooded slopes, collecting insects from corpses, weighing remains or taking time-lapse photos to document the final descent of a human body into decay.
National News
Are Public Universities Losing Ground?
Inside Higher Ed 3/14/07
By Elizabeth Redden
New data from a company that ranks research universities primarily based on per-capita faculty productivity suggest that there are consistent and dramatic disparities in research output at public and private institutions.
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