September 12, 2011, 12:05 AM
The California Faculty Association has launched a new online ad targeting pay packages for California State University executives – more backlash from the board of trustees' decision in July to pay a new campus president $100,000 more than his predecessor on the same day they approved...
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July 18, 2011, 12:05 AM
A new report has found that millions of students every year miss out on federal student loans and sign up for much riskier private loans instead – an option that usually brings higher interest rates and fewer safeguards for borrowers. Oakland-based advocacy group the...
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November 2, 2010, 12:05 AM
Bedbugs have crawled their way into a few college residences in California, causing university officials to warn students about how to avoid the tiny hitchhikers. San Diego State University has seen one report of bedbugs per week in the residence halls, Director of Housing Administration...
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August 9, 2010, 12:05 AM
Two Republican senators have lambasted a half-million-dollar grant to San Diego State University researchers who are studying whether placing certain health messages on menus might persuade drinkers to imbibe less. U.S. Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., last week put out...
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May 13, 2010, 12:10 AM
A deaf studies program at San Diego State University and a fine arts program at Cal Poly Pomona are the latest to face the chopping block as constricted budgets have forced state universities to take a hard look at their program offerings. The decisions shed light on the way different colleges...
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March 19, 2010, 12:05 AM
If university lobbying were a single-elimination tournament, how would California's colleges match up?Not too well, according to the Center for Responsive Politics' K-Street College Classic. UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara and San Diego State University wouldn't make it past the first...
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March 11, 2010, 12:06 AM
San Diego State University students voted this week on a fee increase to build a new student union, marking the third such vote since 2002, the Daily Aztec reports. Students already approved a fee increase of $56 in 2006 to pay for the new center, but the revenues are no longer expected...
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