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California State University and University of California campuses are taking new steps to limit what students can do with their class notes: At least one CSU Chico student recently was reported to judicial affairs for selling notes to a website, while a newly updated UC Berkeley policy restricts... + read more

As a small cadre of University of California faculty prepares to deliver the first online classes in a systemwide experiment, the effort is stirring both excitement and controversy among instructors and administrators. The Online Instruction Pilot Project will launch roughly 20 to 25 online... + read more

A national report released this week by financial aid guru Mark Kantrowitz finds minority students are less likely to win private scholarships or receive merit-based institutional grants than Caucasian students – a pattern that also holds true in California. The analysis [PDF], based on... + read more

A state audit released last week says UCLA wrongfully designated $23 million in student fees to pay for two projects that were not included in the original fee referendum approved by student voters in 2000.  The finding was part of a 15-month audit [PDF] that concluded the... + read more

A judge has ruled that the University of California does not have to provide university-sponsored medical benefits to retirees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose health benefits were altered after the lab's management changed in 2007. Plaintiffs and Livermore Lab retirees... + read more

In his education plan, Governor-elect Jerry Brown acknowledged the problem of rapidly increasing fees at California's four-year universities. "When I was governor, the price students paid for a higher education was a fraction of what it is today," he noted. So what can kind... + read more