MORE ON: public colleges

At a time when California's public universities are bemoaning the decline of state funding as a piece of their overall budgets, one highly ranked public graduate school is planning to forgo state funding altogether in favor of greater flexibility. Officials at UCLA's Anderson School of... + read more

Renovations made to CSU Sacramento President Alexander Gonzalez’s kitchen, paid for by the university’s charitable auxiliary organization, personally benefited Gonzalez and "created an appearance of impropriety," according to an audit by Attorney General Jerry Brown’s... + read more

California State University students could see a five percent fee increase for fall 2010 under a proposal up for discussion next week, and fees could climb higher after the state budget gets hammered out. A staff analysis released this week says the proposed five percent increase –... + read more

A new, wide-ranging report on colleges and universities by the Internal Revenue Service has found that a number of institutions make loans with below-market interest rates to their top administrators. The May 7 report was part of an IRS review into universities' compliance with tax laws.... + read more

A story by NPR about rape on college campuses sheds some new light on the most recent crime statistics reported by UCLA. Back in January, we found in a quick analysis of campus crime reports that UCLA had the highest reported rate of sexual assaults, on or near campus, of any of the UC schools... + read more