Longtime leader guides S.F. State through crisis
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San Francisco Business Times
By Sarah Duxbury

In more than two decades at the helm, President Robert Corrigan has transformed San Francisco State University into a model of urban, public education — albeit one in line with his own values. More »

‘Improper use of state funds’ cited for Schemmel’s exit
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Union-Tribune
By Brent Schrotenboer

San Diego State University President Stephen Weber announced the resignation of Athletic Director Jeff Schemmel yesterday, saying Schemmel “disappointed the university” with actions that included the “improper use of state funds.” More »

North County Times
By Dan Hayes

San Diego State announced the resignation of athletic director Jeff Schemmel on Thursday.

The school investigated Schemmel’s travel expense records after The San Diego Union-Tribune inquired about an attempt to subpoena the records as part of an Alabama man’s divorce proceedings. According to the newspaper, John David Lineberger’s wife, Carolyn, testified in a deposition that she met Schemmel for multiple trysts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Point Clear, Ala. More »

Weber opts for in-house committee over consultant; logical candidates include Snyder, Oberhelman
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Union-Tribune
By Brent Schrotenboer

University of San Diego Athletic Director Ky Snyder declined to speculate yesterday on his possible candidacy for the same job now open at San Diego State. More »

Ties severing Dec. 31; pay conditions change
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Union-Tribune
By Brent Schrotenboer

Just as Athletic Director Jeff Schemmel is out the door at San Diego State, so is his most infamous hire — former SDSU football coach Chuck Long. More »

Gazettes Town-news
By Shereen Oca

Inspiration can be difficult to come by these days, as updates about the recessionary economy and rising unemployment continually pervade the news. More »

Administration response sought on discrepancies about statements related to $232,500 loan to Carinalli
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THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
By NATHAN HALVERSON

Sonoma State University faculty members are demanding that administrators explain discrepancies in their public statements about an SSU Academic Foundation loan to former board member Clem Carinalli. More »

The Daily Bulletin
By Canan Tasci

Jasmine Northup said she hopes her lyrics will change how state universities are funded.

The Cal Poly Pomona student and lead singer in the band Sound System Rebellion on Wednesday belted out lyrics to the song “Calling Out to Youth” in hopes of getting the message across during an on-campus walk-out/teach-in.
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Merced Sun Star

A small protest was held at Cal State Stanislaus’ Turlock campus on Thursday to protest fee hikes and the elimination of the winter term. More »

San Luis Obispo Tribune
By Nick Wilson

Cal Poly is the second-best university in the nation at preparing students for aerospace jobs, according to a survey by a popular aviation magazine. More »

Problems arose with the contract language for an engineering program overseas
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San Luis Obispo Tribune
By Nick Wilson
Published: 11/19/09

Cal Poly’s proposed deal to develop an engineering program at a Saudi Arabian university has fallen through in part because of a disagreement over language in the contract. More »

The Sacramento Bee
By Dan Walters

When Mac Taylor, the Legislature’s chief budget adviser, declared this week that the state budget enacted just four months ago is already billions of dollars upside down, no one in the Capitol should have been surprised.
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Wall Street Journal
By STU WOO

The University of California system Board of Regents voted Thursday to hike student fees 32% to help close a massive budget shortfall.
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NY Times
By TAMAR LEWIN

As the University of California struggles to absorb its sharpest drop in state financing since the Great Depression, every professor, administrator and clerical worker has been put on furlough amounting to an average pay cut of 8 percent. More »

The Chronicle of Higher Education
By Josh Keller
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Tempers flared and Taser guns came out when students at UCLA protested a decision to raise tuition throughout the University of California. Josh Keller, The Chronicle’s California correspondent, explains what happened in Los Angeles.

The Sacramento Bee

The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state.
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The Sacramento Bee
By Robert Lewis

The University of California, Davis, Health System is suing Sacramento County for failing to pay as much as $125 million in medical bills for indigent patients from July 2008 through September 2009.

The suit filed Thursday in Sacramento Superior Court says the budget-strapped county stopped reimbursing the UC Davis Medical Center and shifted the cost of care onto UC Davis.
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union-Tribune

Starting today, students at the University of California San Diego will have a one-stop shop for information about green jobs, conservation tips, eco-friendly products, research on environmental sustainability and courses on related topics. More »

The Sacramento Bee
By Hudson Sangree
Published: 11/19/09

Authorities arrested dozens of protesters Thursday night at the University of California, Davis, after they refused to leave Mrak Hall after it was scheduled to close at 5 p.m.

The students were protesting the governing board of the University of California approving a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state.
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Union-Tribune
By Eleanor Yang Su

Despite a second day of mass student protests, the University of California’s Board of Regents yesterday overwhelmingly approved a 32 percent fee increase that will take effect in two increments next year. More »

The regents, some expressing concern about potential pitfalls, said they acted out of a moral imperative to aid the community for which the hospital was once a point of pride.
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Los Angeles Times
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske

In a unanimous vote that sparked cheers of “thank you” from the audience, University of California regents on Thursday approved a partnership with Los Angeles County that clears the way to reopen the Martin Luther King Jr. medical facility in Willowbrook, possibly by 2013.
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The decision was made with little debate after a lengthy committee discussion Wednesday. Thousands of students and labor union activists protested outside the meeting at UCLA.
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Los Angeles Times
By Larry Gordon and Amina Khan

With the chants of protesters wafting into their meeting room and armed police standing guard, the University of California’s Board of Regents approved a 32%, or $2,500, increase in undergraduate fees Thursday, but promised more financial aid to keep needy students from dropping out.
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Inside Higher Ed

As students protested outside, the University of California’s Board of Regents on Thursday reluctantly approved a 32 percent increase in “fees” (what the rest of higher education calls tuition) for 2010-11. “We’re being forced to impose a user tax on our students and their families,” Mark Yudof, the UC system’s president, said during a committee hearing Wednesday. More »

San Francisco Chronicle
By Nanette Asimov

The University of California regents voted Thursday to raise tuition by 32 percent as angry students pounded drums and blocked exits to the UCLA building where the regents were meeting. More »

Santa Cruz Sentinel
By J.M. BROWN

UC Santa Cruz’s Academic Senate is slated to weigh a resolution today demanding that the university rescue a child care program for faculty and staff from the budget scrap heap. More »

Napa Valley Register

A $1 million gift from Trinchero Family Estates will help UC Davis build new facilities for a program that provides disease-free rootstock to California nurseries. More »

Forbes
By David K. Randall

A plan to dramatically increase tuition and other fees throughout the University of California system sparked a noisy protest at the UCLA campus today, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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AP
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD

As protests resounded outside, the University of California Board of Regents approved a fee 32 percent fee increase for students attending the state’s premier public schools. More »

San Francisco Chronicle
By Henry K. Lee

UC Berkeley students took over a campus building in protest this morning, a day after the University of California regents voted to raise tuition by 32 percent. More »

Associated Press

Here are the average annual University of California fees for full-time resident undergraduates in the past decade, excluding room, board, books and individual campus fees: More »

Protesters march up Empire Grade Road toward the west entrance of UCSC on Wednesday. Hundreds of students set up blockades at both entrances to the campus to protest a 32 percent fee hike for undergraduate students. The Board of Regents is expected to approve the tuition hike today (Phil Carter/Sentinel)
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Santa Cruz Sentinel
By MARISSA CEVALLOS

Hit hard by more than $800 million in budget cuts from Sacramento, the University of California moved Wednesday to boost student fees by nearly a third over two years as students staged raucous demonstrations across the state. More »

Associated Press
By SHAYA TAYEFE MOHAJER

A troubled Los Angeles hospital is a step closer to reopening as University of California regents agree to partner with the county.

The UC Board of Regents voted Thursday in Los Angeles to work with Los Angeles County to reopen emergency and inpatient services at Martin Luther King Jr. hospital by 2012.

The hospital, formerly known as King-Harbor, was built to serve one of the poorest neighborhoods in Los Angeles in the wake of the 1965 Watts riots. The hospital closed in August 2007 because years of negligence resulting in patient deaths.

Orange County Register
By CLAUDIA KOERNER

As University of California regents approved a 32 percent fee increase today, UC Irvine students began to describe the impact the fee will have on their education. More »

Associated Press
By Michael Blood

As hundreds of students demonstrated outside, University of California leaders today voted to approve a 32 percent hike in undergraduate fees, arguing the increase is crucial because of the state’s budget crisis.

The UC Board of Regents, meeting at UCLA, approved a two-phase increase that will boost the average undergraduate fee $2,500 by next fall. That would bring the average annual cost to about $10,300 — a threefold increase in a decade. More »

UCLA students protested a budget vote that raised tuition by 32 percent, at the UCLA Westwood campus in Westwood, Calif., on Thursday.
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New York Times
By TAMAR LEWIN

The University of California Board of Regents approved a plan on Thursday to raise undergraduate fees — the equivalent of tuition — 32 percent by next fall, to help make up for steep cuts in state funding.

The state allocation for the 10-campus system, one of the leading public university systems in the nation, was cut $813 million, or 20 percent, this year, leading to a hiring freeze, furloughs and layoffs. More »

The Sacramento Bee
By Jim Sanders

Pay for California’s top elected officials will be slashed by 18 percent next month, one year earlier than expected, to abide by an opinion issued Thursday from Attorney General Jerry Brown.
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Legislative leaders had challenged the authority of the state’s independent pay commission after it voted to trim salaries. But Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown’s opinion says the panel can cut compensation.
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Los Angeles Times
By Patrick McGreevy

California’s Legislature went to state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown recently seeking relief from a future pay cut and on Thursday received an unwelcome surprise: An 18% reduction for lawmakers and other elected state officials can begin next month instead of a year from now.
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New York Times
By RON LIEBER

Students at the University of California, Berkeley, protested a decision by the Board of Regents to increase undergraduate fees by 32 percent next fall. Russel A. Daniels/Associated Press Students at the University of California, Berkeley, protested a decision by the Board of Regents to increase undergraduate fees by 32 percent next fall. More »

Inside Higher Ed
By Jack Stripling

Ribbon cuttings.

Press releases.

Posed photographs with shovels in hand.

Such are the tools colleges often use to illustrate their close ties to the business community. And as public institutions work ever harder to make the case that they serve as economic engines for their cities, states and regions, college leaders are likely to cozy up to the business world even more. More »

New York Times
By DUFF WILSON
Published: 11/18/09

Senator Charles E. Grassley wrote to 10 top medical schools Tuesday to ask what they are doing about professors who put their names on ghostwritten articles in medical journals — and why that practice was any different from plagiarism by students. More »

New York Times
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: 11/18/09

The anti-sweatshop movement at dozens of American universities, from Georgetown to U.C.L.A., has had plenty of idealism and energy, but not many victories.

Until now. More »

Associated Press
By MICHELLE R. SMITH

Economic reality and money problems may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad, just two years after students’ interest in foreign study was at an all-time high.

Four times as many students went abroad in the 2007-2008 academic year as 20 years ago, according to a survey of 985 schools released this week by the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit advocacy group. More »

New York Times
By MONICA DAVEY

In an unusual pushback against President Obama’s expansion of federal financing of human embryonic stem cell research, the University of Nebraska is considering restricting its stem cell experiments to cell lines approved by President George W. Bush. More »