May 11, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Salinas Californian 5/10/07
By Wendy Garofoli
While some college seniors spend their last weeks scrambling to study for finals and submit papers, pending graduates of California State University, Monterey Bay, are compiling months, if not years, of legwork for their capstone projects
Union-Tribune 5/10/07
By Brent Schrotenboer
In early 1998, then-San Diego State Athletic Director Rick Bay spoke with a sense of urgency about the athletic department needing to support itself.
Union-Tribune 5/11/07
By Jeanette Steele
Taking another step yesterday in the fight against mini-dorms, the city unveiled a possible new rooming-house ordinance, introduced a nonprofit devoted to buying back dorm-like houses, and announced that five people have been fined $1,000 each under a crackdown on party houses.
Press-Democrat 5/11/07
By Bob Norberg
Sonoma State University faculty members will take a no-confidence vote on President Ruben Armiñana.
ABC-30, 5/10/07
Students at California state universities aren't happy with a proposed fee hike and took their complaints to the State Capitol.
Editorials/Commentary
Fresno Bee 5/11/07
There are many questions swirling around Monday night's shooting near California State University, Fresno.
Sacramento Bee 5/10/07
By Daniel Weintraub
For decades, California has been promising its employees health care for life in retirement if they worked at least 10 years for the state. For as long as that promise has been offered, however, no one ever bothered to add up how much it would cost to keep.
Contra Costa Times 5/11/07
The cost of college has become so outrageous that students who aren't rich -- which means most people -- have to borrow a fortune. The staggering debt often takes decades to repay.
Press-Telegram 5/11/07
High school trade and technical programs are among the unfortunate victims of state budget cuts and education reforms that stress testing over teaching. Though college-prep curriculum is important, only a quarter of Long Beach residents ever go on to earn a four-year degree.
UC News
Sacramento Bee 5/11/07
By Bill Lindelof
The acronym UCD stands for more than just the University of California, Davis. Students jest to incoming freshman that it is also shorthand for "Under Construction Daily."
California News
San Francisco Chronicle 5/11/07
By Greg Lucas
Educators reacted coolly Thursday to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's idea to lease operation of the California state lottery to a private company in exchange for an infusion of billions of dollars in up-front cash, saying such a plan might shortchange schools over the long run.
L.A. Times 5/11/07
By Howard Blume
The projected shortfall in the new Los Angeles Unified School District's campus construction program has ballooned from $1.6 billion to at least $2.4 billion in the last six months, the result of spiraling construction costs.
National News
Inside Higher Ed 5/11/07
By Scott Jaschik
As a general rule, language departments — especially those that emphasize non-Western languages — just about always welcome more students and more money to support those students.
Monterey Herald 5/11/07
By Kevin Howe
Fewer college students than last year think the United States as a nation is headed in "the right direction" and a majority are in favor of setting a timetable for U.S. troops to abandon Iraq, according to an annual survey commissioned by the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy.
Union-Tribune 5/11/07
By Kathryn Balint
In the wake of the shooting rampage last month at Virginia Tech, text-message notification services – an industry once considered expendable – is gaining attention. Colleges, including at least two in San Diego, and other organizations have been looking to upgrade their emergency communications tools since the shooting spree that left 33 people dead.
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