March 16, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Latest fee increase irks CSUB students
Bakersfield Californian 3/16/07
By Jenny Shearer
If there's one thing California State University students have come to expect, it's fee increases.
Former Cal State official resigns from U.N. position
San Francisco Chronicle 3/16/07
By Jim Doyle
Peter Smith, the former president of the California State University campus at Monterey Bay, has resigned from his post at UNESCO in Paris amid allegations of staff troubles, a death threat and a contract scandal.
SDSU hikes tuition 10 percent
Imperial Valley Press 3/16/07
By Jonathan Dale
CALEXICO — Celia Sanchez and Stephani Perez could only shake their heads as they were told of the new tuition increase set to hit the San Diego State University-Imperial Valley campus students this fall.
University takes wraps off new reading center
Salinas Californian 3/16/07
By Victor Calderon
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College dean recognized for classroom excellence
San Bernardino Sun 3/16/07
By Yazmin Alvarez
"He's an approachable administrator that embraces diversity."
CSU awaits strike vote tally
SLO Tribune 3/16/07
By Nick Wilson
Turnout was strong at a strike vote among faculty at Cal Poly that ended Thursday, according to local union leaders.
Editorials/Commentary
Buyer beware?
San Francisco Chronicle 3/16/07
California's public university systems could save themselves and their students a lot of grief if, working with the Legislature, academic leaders took the time to develop a transparent formula for issuing small and predictable annual rate increases.
Painful facts about our schools
San Francisco Chronicle 3/16/07
There's nothing warm and fuzzy about the findings of the first comprehensive report on how California's public schools are run and financed.
Community colleges reply
Pasadena Star-News 3/16/07
Community colleges are a victim of their own success.
Educate all kids
Sacramento Bee 3/16/07
Every year, about 25,000 students who have been raised and schooled in California but who came to the state as children of illegal immigrants graduate from California high schools.
It's official: Education is a mess
Sacramento Bee 3/16/07
By Dan Walters
So a bunch of foundations with names like Gates and Hewlett, acting at the behest of California's political leadership, spent $3 million to finance 23 academic studies on the governance, financing and academic performance of the state's immense public school system.
Status quo must go
Union-Tribune 3/16/07
Early reports on the conclusions of the massive “Getting Down to Facts” study of public education unveiled over the last two days in Sacramento were dismaying.
Not much help
L.A. Times 3/16/07
This is hardly what California has been waiting for. After spending more than a year trying to find a definitive answer to how much it would cost to educate the state's children properly, and how the money should be spent, the state now has yet another white paper.
Education revolution
L.A. Daily News 3/16/07
The set of reports released this week from Stanford University on fixing California's public education system had its heart in the right place. The problem was with its head.
UC News
UC officials told to get tough on pay
San Francisco Chronicle
By Tanya Schevitz
The top administrators at the University of California's campuses and a research laboratory were told Thursday to come up with policies and procedures to prevent overpayment of vacations, improper payment of honoraria and other financial mistakes that have embarrassed university officials in the past.
UC keeps employee loan aid
Sacramento Bee 3/16/07
By Eric Stern
University of California regents do not plan to tighten the rules of a UC-operated home loan program that's been criticized for growing beyond its mission to help young professors break into the housing market.
UCD worker accused of theft
Sacramento Bee 3/16/07
By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
A former UC Davis employee was indicted Thursday on one count of theft of government property, in a case that raises broader questions about how the university handled money for teaching the poorest Californians how to eat right.
California News
College fees increased
Orange County Register 3/14/07
By Marla Jo Fisher
Students on Wednesday said the latest in a series of state university fee increases is stretching their ability to afford college.
UC, Cal State Boost Fees
Press-Enterprise 3/15/07
By Marisa Agha and Gregor McGavin
Despite opposition from students and faculty, the governing boards of California's public universities on Wednesday raised tuition for the fifth year since 2001.
CSU, UC student fees increasing once again
San Bernardino Sun 3/15/07
By Charlotte Hsu
The governing boards of the California State University and the University of California voted Wednesday to raise student fees for the fifth time in six years.
Cal State, UC systems approve raising student fees
Ventura Star 3/15/07
By Michelle Locke, Associated Press
It's going to cost more to go to a public university in California this fall.
'American Dream' bill addresses tuition for illegal immigrants
Ventura County Star 3/16/07
By Marjorie Hernandez
Failure was never an option for Channel Islands High School graduate Dalia Quintero.
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