March 8, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Community colleges balk at Concord expansion
Contra Costa Times 3/8/07
By Matt Krupnick
Community-college leaders are upset that Cal State East Bay administrators did not contact them before the university began seeking state approval for four-year programs at its Concord campus.
HSU key to NextGen Internet
Arcata Eye 3/6/07
By Paul Mann
Humboldt State University should convene a near-term forum on the Next Generation Internet that would enable stakeholders statewide to consider a prototype new-media institute on campus, Bay Area technology leader told a local audience last week.
Fines set for loud residents by SDSU
Union-Tribune 3/8/07
By Jeanette Steele
Loud, partying renters around San Diego State University will soon face police tickets with fines up to $1,000 – and so will their landlords.
Editorials/Commentary
We all have stake in training nurses
Bakersfield Californian 3/8/07
The wait times in local emergency rooms can be shortened if local training programs, such as the one for nurses at Cal State Bakersfield, can be expanded.
More options for students
Ventura Star 3/8/07
The future of Ventura County's three community colleges is at stake — both financially and educationally — in two simultaneous trends.
UC News
UC library collections at heart of digital archive projects
Contra Costa Times 3/6/07
By Matt Krupnick
About a dozen twentysomethings are creating the library of the future in a small room attached to a colossal University of California book warehouse.
Cal's biofuel deal challenged on campus
San Francisco Chronicle 3/8/07
By Rick DelVecchio
Andrew Paul Gutierrez, a 67-year-old professor of ecosystems science in UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, has a word for those who believe human ingenuity and productivity are boundless.
California News
Lottery sales slipping; education to lose $136 million
North County Times 3/8/07
By Edward Sifuentes
The state's education budget could lose more than a million dollars because of slumping California State Lottery sales, according to state officials.
Unprecedented education study targets schools' financial woes
Capitol Weekly 3/8/07
By Anthony York
California schools are woefully under-funded--one estimate of the shortage hovered at an astonishing $1 trillion--according to a massive new study.
National News
Slowdown in Enrollment Growth Leaves Public Colleges With More State and Local Money per Student, Report Says
Chronicle of Higher Education 3/8/07
By Peter Schmidt
State and local appropriations to public colleges rose faster than enrollment in the 2005-6 fiscal and academic years, triggering the first real increase in such spending per student in half a decade.
Low-income families get college aid help
Christian Science Monitor 3/8/07
By Stacy A. Teicher
Filling out financial-aid forms is a notoriously complex part of applying to college. But this year, researchers are using tax season to try to make that task less taxing.
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