March 7 , 2007
CSU/Campus News
Mini-dorms, but many problems
Union-Tribune 3/7/07
By Sherry Saavedra and Jeanette Steele
Michael Haaland doesn't look like a real estate mogul. In jeans, a button-down shirt and Adidas sneakers, the 25-year-old looks like he should be tending bar in Pacific Beach.
CSUF defends donor to business school
O.C. Register 3/7/07
By John Gittelsohn and Sushma Subramanian
Cal State Fullerton administrators and students said Tuesday they support the man who pledged $4.5 million to put his name on a new business school building, but a professor who first questioned the donor's background said he will continue to challenge the matter.
Weighing walkout
Times-Herald 3/7/07
By Andrea Wolf
Every office door in California Maritime Academy's faculty building bears a sign reading: "I don't want to strike, but I will."
San Diego Cal State University Votes on 2-Day Professor Walk-Out
KNX 3/6/07
Associated Press
Faculty at San Diego State University, Cal State San Marcos and Cal State campuses throughout California will begin voting on whether to walk off the job in what would be the largest strike of university professors in U.S. history.
Editorials/Commentary
Move that meeting
Fresno Bee 3/7/07
The environmental impact report on the 45-acre Campus Pointe project proposed for the Fresno State campus is expected to be approved in Long Beach at a two-day meeting beginning Tuesday.
Strike vote, fee hikes raise student anxieties
Daily Breeze 3/7/07
Students in the University of California and California State University systems are facing fee increases this fall -- for the fifth time in six years. But these fees already have climbed more than 75 percent since 2001-02.
Cal State a deal, any way you cut it
San Bernardino Sun 3/7/07
Monday's editorial on proposed fee increases for California universities chastised the governor for seemingly high and arbitrary hikes. But it failed to point out what a tremendous value these universities remain for students seeking a world-class education.
UC News
UCSC faculty housing breaks ground
Santa Cruz Sentinel 3/7/07
By Roger Sideman
After years of delays, the first new faculty housing project in 15 years at UC Santa Cruz is breaking ground.
California News
Despite Low Tuition, Cost of Attending Community College Is Beyond Many Californians, Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education 3/7/07
By Elyse Ashburn
Many Californians with low or even moderate incomes cannot afford to attend community college despite the fact that California's colleges have the lowest tuition rates in the country, according to a report scheduled for release today by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
State urged to increase community college fees
San Francisco Chronicle 3/7/07
By Tanya Schevitz
A new study on California's community colleges recommends the state gradually and regularly raise class fees at the rate of inflation for personal income -- which would mean an increase of about $1 per unit per year, or about $30 a year for a full-time student.
National News
Closing the ‘Degree Gap’
Inside Higher Ed 3/7/07
By Scott Jaschik
Reports about flagging U.S. competitiveness are about as common as college presidents quoting The World Is Flat or politicians worrying about jobs being transported to China or India.
The promise and perils of tech transfer
San Francisco Chronicle 3/7/07
By Tom Abate
About 25 years ago, Congress encouraged universities to commercialize federally funded research by allowing both schools and scientists to profit when they patented discoveries and licensed them to private firms.
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