May 3, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Enterprise-Record 5/3/07
By Heather Hacking
It looks like student enrollment at Chico State University will be slightly higher next fall, based on the number of students who have applied to attend.
Ventura Star 5/3/07
By Jean Cowden Moore
CSU Channel Islands has opened a new campus in Thousand Oaks. The satellite campus consists of five classrooms in an office building near The Oaks mall. Most of its 175 students are working toward master's degrees in biotechnology or business.
Editorials/Commentary
O.C. Register 5/3/07
The California Community College system is seeking voter approval of a new constitutional right giving it a guaranteed share of the state's educational tax dollars.
UC News
Inside Higher Ed 5/3/07
By Elizabeth Redden
Let’s face it: Comp 101 doesn’t tend to be the most controversial of courses. But at the University of California at San Diego, a campaign officially begun last month to alter a required freshman writing and social science curriculum has already claimed two casualties.
Contra Costa Times 5/3/07
By Matt Krupnick
UC Berkeley is trying to answer a question: How Berkeley can Earth be?
California News
Sacramento Bee 5/3/07
By Clea Benson
Leaders of California universities told lawmakers Wednesday that they are reviewing campus security in the wake of the mass shooting at Virginia Tech.
Union-Tribune 5/3/07
By Angela Holman
When Sue Staley was in high school, planning for college was a much simpler process than it is now.
Oakland Tribune 5/3/07
By Steve Geissinger
After the latest campus massacre, California middle and high schools are quietly working to quell student, staff and parent anxiety with a little-known, ongoing annual safety budget of nearly $100 million — $35 per student.
NBC-11, San Jose 5/3/07
Lawmakers and California State University officials looked into the issue of school safety Wednesday night.
National News
USA Today 5/3/07
By Charisse Jones
College town, USA: Thousands of students and professors stream into classrooms of higher learning. Cash registers purr at clothing shops, software stores and burger joints.
Inside Higher Ed 5/3/07
By Elia Powers
The evidence is mounting. In year three of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s new system for measuring and reporting athletes’ and teams’ academic performance, through what it calls the Academic Progress Rate, the association is getting a good sense of which teams are safe from penalties and which are digging themselves into trouble.
Other Sites of Interest
CSU Leader
CSU'S Weekly e-news publication.
CSU Newsline
The latest CSU Campus News.
Rough and Tumble
Daily California and political news.
