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Daily Report: Higher Ed

Colleges crack down on selling, sharing notes

February 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
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
Daily Report: Higher Ed

UC using more private developers for student housing

January 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
The University of California has been slowly expanding the use of private developers to build student housing over the last decade, authorizing seven such deals since 2000 at UC Irvine, UC Davis and UC Riverside. The growth of these partnerships in the Golden State is part of a national trend... + read more
Daily Report: Higher Ed

UC online instruction pilot sparks excitement, controversy

October 21, 2011, 12:05 AM
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
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Should CSU pay executives using private foundation dollars?

September 30, 2011, 12:05 AM
Leaders at the state’s public four-year universities need to proceed carefully when it comes to using private dollars to supplement compensation packages for executives, lawmakers told California State University and University of California officials at a Senate Education Committee hearing... + read more
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Study: White students more likely to win scholarships

September 9, 2011, 12:05 AM
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
Daily Report: Higher Ed

UCSD library cuts mean 150,000 books must go

August 26, 2011, 12:38 AM
Driven by dramatic budget cuts that will shutter four campus libraries, staffers at UC San Diego are removing roughly 150,000 books and journals from their collections by summer’s end – selling volumes to the highest bidder or donating them. If UCSD students or researchers want to... + read more
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Audit finds UCLA wrongfully designated $23M in student fees

August 1, 2011, 12:05 AM
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
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Are law schools that fudge employment stats breaking federal law?

June 20, 2011, 12:05 AM
A paper by a newly minted UC Davis School of Law graduate is creating a buzz in legal circles, arguing that law schools that overstate job prospects for their graduates are violating federal law. Joel Murray, who graduated this spring, writes in a paper posted on the Social Science Research... + read more
Daily Report: Higher Ed, Money and Politics

Judge rules against Livermore Lab retirees on UC medical benefits

June 8, 2011, 12:05 AM
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
Daily Report: Higher Ed

What Brown’s $500 million cut means for UC budget

January 12, 2011, 12:06 AM
Just how big is a $500 million cut to the University of California system? Gov. Jerry Brown this week unveiled a budget that included drastic reductions for the state's public colleges and universities. The plan calls for [PDF] a $500 million cut to the UC, a $500 million cut to the... + read more
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Will college fees increase under Brown, like before?

November 8, 2010, 12:05 AM
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
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Report: Colleges should offer more online classes

October 26, 2010, 12:06 AM
A new report from the Legislative Analyst's Office is urging the state's public colleges and universities to expand online classes and degree programs – a concept the report says could boost efficiency and access to public higher education in California. The report comes as the... + read more
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Livermore Lab retirees demand University of California health benefits

October 14, 2010, 12:05 AM
Four former employees of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory whose retiree medical benefits changed after the lab's management changed in 2007 are suing the UC Board of Regents, saying they have a right to the university-provided medical benefits they were promised. Plaintiffs and... + read more
UC Regent Richard Blum
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Report: UC invests where its Regents have financial interests

October 12, 2010, 12:05 AM
What do Harrah's Entertainment, Washington Mutual and Univision have in common? They were all involved in private equity deals in which the University of California invested and where financier and UC Regent Richard Blum had a business interest, according to a new report. The Harrah's... + read more
Campusreform.org criticizes UC Santa Cruz for 'boasting' leftist professor emirita Angela Davis.
Daily Report: Higher Ed

Conservatives rate U.S. colleges, decry UCs for liberal bent

September 3, 2010, 12:05 AM
Campusreform.org says it was created “to give conservatives powerful new weapons in their fight for the hearts and minds” of American college students. The group is spending the summer deconstructing, from bottom to top, U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of the top... + read more
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