March 6, 2007
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Chronicle of Higher Education 3/9/07
By Andrea Foster
College students use technology constantly. They text-message friends, compile playlists for their iPods, and are whizzes at updating their MySpace profiles.
First-Ever Strike Vote Comes for CSU Faculty
KABC-7, 3/5/07
California State University instructors' first ever strike vote looms Monday, as contract talks with university officials at an impasse after 22 months.
Strike vote begins at CSU
Sacramento Bee
By Eric Stern
To hear it from the Sacramento State faculty, the dispute over a new salary contract is about everything but their salaries.
Faculty at CSU voting on strike
Union-Tribune 3/6/07
By Sherry Saavedra
Faculty at San Diego State, Cal State San Marcos and other campuses began voting yesterday on whether to strike for the first time at the nation's largest public university system, citing meager paychecks that prohibit many professors from owning homes.
A campus, a building, a name and a furor
L.A. Times 3/6/07
By Seema Mehta
When Steven G. Mihaylo made a multimillion-dollar pledge to help build Cal State Fullerton's new business school quarters, there was celebration at the university.
Campus Pointe deal takes shape
Fresno Bee 3/6/07
By Marc Benjamin
Fresno State and the city of Clovis agreed Monday night on a list of projects that should be done to remove some of the city's objections to the university's 45-acre Campus Pointe project.
Cal State faculty taking strike vote
L.A. Times 3/6/07
By Tami Abdollah
Faculty of the largest state university system in the country began voting Monday on their willingness to strike if labor negotiations fail to produce a contract this month.
Faculty strike vote begins in CSU system
Enterprise-Record 3/6/07
By Roger Aylworth
Faculty at Chico State University — and the rest of the California State University system — are doing something they have never done before: voting on whether or not to strike.
CSUDH instructors begin vote on strike
Daily Breeze 3/6/07
By Paul Clinton
The union that represents instructors at California State University, Dominguez Hills began its first-ever vote Monday on whether to authorize a strike, which could hit the campus in early April.
Fee hike proposed for HSU students
Times-Standard 3/6/07
By Karina Gianola
At Humboldt State University next fall, as students return to classes, homework and exams, they may be faced with something else: a fee increase.
Vote on CSU faculty strike begins
Oakland Tribune 3/6/07
By Kristofer Noceda
Faculty members at California State University, East Bay, and 15 of 22 other CSU campuses began voting Monday on what would be the largest strike of higher education teachers in U.S. history.
CSU faculty vote on strike
Press-Telegram 3/6/07
By Michelle Locke, Associated Press
Frustrated by stalled negotiations, faculty of the nation's largest four-year public university system began casting their first strike authorization vote Monday.
Sonoma State faculty voting on whether to strike
Press-Democrat 3/6/07
By Jeremy Hay
Sonoma State University faculty members on Monday joined their counterparts statewide in voting on whether to strike to protest pay and stalled contract negotiations.
CSU faculty strike vote gets under way
Salinas Californian 3/6/07
By Robert Salonga
Faculty at California State University, Monterey Bay, in Seaside took part in a historic strike vote that began Monday and could pave the way for a massive faculty walkout in the CSU system.
CSU Faculty Set To Take Strike Vote
KTVU 3/6/07
California State University faculty members will vote Monday on whether to strike if a contract agreement with the university system is not reached at the end of the month, according to union officials.
UC News
UC moves to divest holdings in firms with ties to Sudan leaders
San Francisco Chronicle 3/6/07
By Jim Doyle
University of California officials say they have identified $14.5 million in stock holdings in nine foreign companies with ties to leaders accused of genocide in Sudan,
California News
High court clears religious schools to use bond funds
San Francisco Chronicle 3/6/07
By Bob Egelko
Religious schools with hundreds of thousands of students in California can use tax-exempt bonds from a public agency to build classrooms without violating the state's constitutional ban on government aid to religion, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
National News
Cost and the College Trustee
Inside Higher Ed 3/6/07
By Doug Lederman
Given that many if not most college regents and trustees have backgrounds in the business world, you’d think they would be naturally inclined to seek (or demand) information about the finances of the institutions they govern.
Panel studies high cost of college texts
L.A. Times 3/6/07
By Stuart Silverstein
A federal advisory panel studying the high cost of college texts was offered a simple suggestion Monday for keeping down expenses: Don't use so many books.
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