May 14, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Bakersfield Californian 5/14/07
By Jenny Shearer
Imagine blowing off steam by climbing a 30-foot rock wall or running around a suspended indoor track between classes.
San Bernardino Sun 5/14/07
By Robert Rogers
For a professor who for two decades has helped students stack accolades in national diplomacy competitions, Ralph Salmi is low-key about his record of success
Press-Democrat 5/14/07
By Bob Norberg
Faculty members backing a no-confidence vote this week on Sonoma State University President Ruben Arminana say they hope it will force him to step down.
KCBS-740, 5/14/07
San Jose State’s College of Education has decided how to spend the largest single donation ever made to an education school in the California State University system.
Fresno Bee 5/12/07
How's this for a timely hearing: As Fresno police were hunting down a murder suspect near the Fresno State campus Tuesday morning, a state Senate committee led by Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, was holding an informational hearing on university emergency alert systems.
KPIX 5/11/07
Sonoma State University faculty members will decide next week whether they have confidence in SSU President Ruben Arminana's leadership.
O.C. Register 5/13/07
By Eric Carpenter
The beeping of a cell-phone alarm wakes Andy Bussell from a dead sleep at 6:30 a.m. and it's time for him to spring into a new day.
Editorials/Commentary
Sacramento Bee 5/143/07
By Marcos Bretón
The walls of a men's room are never good reading, especially when the message is: "Never hire a beaner to do a white man's job."
San Francisco Chronicle 5/14/07
The mighty sword of "academic freedom" was wielded last week to defend the ability of tobacco companies to fund research at the University of California.
L.A. Times 5/14/07
By Patricia McGuire
Rip it up and throw it away. That's the advice I'm giving my fellow college and university presidents this month as the "reputation survey" from U.S. News & World Report lands on our desks.
UC News
Press-Enterprise 5/14/07
By Marisa Agha and David Olson
UC Riverside's new chancellor should be a model scholar who can boost faculty morale, build relationships with the surrounding community, and continue the momentum of UCR's vision for a medical school, campus and community leaders say.
California News
Sacramento Bee 5/13/07
By Phillip Reese
The number of women receiving doctorates in science and math from California universities has jumped significantly in the past decade, narrowing a long-standing gender gap, according to a Bee analysis of state data.
L.A. Times 5/14/07
By Nancy Vogel
Riding a surge of public support for the citizen soldiers fighting an unpopular war in Iraq, California lawmakers are scrambling to issue them special license plates, waive car registration fees, offer free parking at state parks, even cut the price of their fishing licenses.
Stockton Record 5/14/07
By Hank Shaw
Getting into nursing school shouldn't be left to chance, according to Assemblyman Tom Berryhill.
San Francisco Chronicle 5/13/07
By Nanette Asimov, Todd Wallack
Teachers have helped students cheat on California's high-stakes achievement tests -- or blundered badly enough to compromise their validity -- in at least 123 public schools since 2004, a Chronicle review of documents shows.
San Francisco Chronicle 5/13/07
By Nanette Asimov, Todd Wallack
States should do more to find cheating than just analyzing erasures on students' exams, according to several experts who point to Texas and New Jersey as examples of a more vigorous approach.
National News
Inside Higher Ed 5/14/07
By Elia Powers
In its latest forum on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a federal civil rights panel divided its time equally between broad philosophical questions — Are women as interested in playing college sports as men? Do they have the chance? — and more bureaucratic matters: How can an institution administer an athletics survey so that it reaches the largest sample?
L.A. Times 5/14/07
By Roy Rivenburg
The rooms in this college dorm have no electricity, no running water and ceilings that are just 11 inches high. But the residents don't mind. They're dead.
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