May 7, 2007
CSU/Campus News
Mercury News 5/5/07
By Jessie Mangaliman
Capping a weeklong celebration of its 150th anniversary, San Jose State University on Friday received a $10 million gift - the largest individual donation to an education college in the California State University system's history.
Union-Tribune 5/6/07
By Sherry Saavedra
Mayor Jerry Sanders has billed proposed amendments to the Land Development Code as the means to make it virtually impossible to construct a mini-dorm in the future.
North County Times 5/5/07
By David Garrick
Students, staff and faculty members at Cal State San Marcos have been diligently placing bottles, cans, cardboard and paper into the 120 recycling bins on the university campus for many years.
North County Times 5/6/07
By Brian Hiro
The contrast was so striking that, when Steve Nichols arrived at Cal State San Marcos in 1995, it was as if he were leaving civilization and setting up camp in the untamed wilderness, a Henry David Thoreau of academia.
L.A. Daily News 5/7/07
By Jim Skeen
There were lonely classes and long trips for laboratory work, but Rebecca Gaudi and Richard Hecker are about to become the Antelope Valley's first "homegrown" engineers.
Editorials/Commentary
USA Today 5/7/07
When students at Virginia's James Madison University go back to school in the fall, they'll have 10 fewer sports to play or watch.
USA Today 5/7/07
By Larry Joseph
With controversial subjects such as Title IX in sports, it is worth noting areas of wide agreement, which give perspective to the narrow dispute.
Sacramento Bee 5/6/07
That primal scream you heard came from Sacramento State University. Budget shortfalls and proposed permanent cuts to the academic program recently led to a 77 percent to 23 percent faculty vote of no confidence in the leadership of President Alexander Gonzalez.
Mercury News 5/6/07
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared 2008 the Year of Education Reform. That shouldn't stop the Legislature in its tracks this year, however.
UC News
North County Times 5/5/07
By Michelle Locke, AP
A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips. Inside were stories from 1997 when he was the lone black student to enroll in the incoming law school class at the University of California, Berkeley, following the end of affirmative action admissions.
Contra Costa Times 5/7/07
By Matt Krupnick
UC Berkeley is struggling to avoid the fate of other large public universities that have lost ground in fields such as philosophy, history and the languages.
California News
Sacramento Bee 5/7/07
By Judy Lin
Sixteen and pregnant, Shante Scott transferred from Hiram Johnson High School to a continuation school. She got kicked out for fighting. The last time she was in a classroom, she was a few points shy of passing the high school exit exam.
Sacramento Bee 5/5/07
By Lakiesha McGhee
Eric Alfaro realized about a year ago that something was bothering him about Woodland Community College.
Union-Tribune 5/6/07
By Ed Mendel
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting a lot of bang for the buck as he leads a drive to reverse California's dramatic decline in job-training courses in high school.
La Prensa San Diego 5/6/07
By Raymond R. Beltran
Like most Americans, Manuel Dominguez’s parents worked hard and encouraged him to get educated. He carried on his shoulders the weight of setting an example for his younger siblings too.
Mercury News 5/6/07
By Lisa M. Krieger
A group of prominent Stanford University academics are urging the school to reject money from the tobacco industry, triggering a prickly debate about the best way to safeguard the integrity of a university's research, reputation and academic freedoms.
National News
USA Today 5/7/07
By Mary Beth Marklein
College and university trustees often don't see eye to eye, and one reason may be that many members of college governing boards feel ill-prepared for the job.
Inside Higher Ed 5/7/07
By Elia Powers
Legislation intended to make textbook pricing and edition-change information accessible to the college faculty who order the material continues to move through state legislatures across the country.
L.A. Times 4/22/07
By P.J. Huffstutter
It's not often that a librarian is warned to stay away from the bookshelves because of high voltage, and that students aren't allowed to roam freely through the stacks — but it's becoming more common.
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