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Community Colleges

Waiting List: California Leads In Educating the Incarcerated

California leads the nation in offering college opportunities to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated students, according to a recent joint study by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center and The Opportunity Institute.

March 21, 2018

Opinion

On Youth Activism and My Active-Shooter Training

There’s a new set of loud, defiant voices that arrived on the scene last week that makes diversity a whole lot more inclusive. Make way for the heretofore-ignored minors of all stripes and sizes. They are now their own group, the post-millennials, persons under the age of 18, who after Parkland can no longer be ignored, especially as they age and become generally woke, politically active adults.

March 18, 2018

News Roundup

California Senate Approves Medication Abortion on Campuses

California would be the first state to require public universities to offer medication abortion under legislation approved in the state Senate Monday, a bill that if signed into law would mark a vast expansion of a service that’s rare on college campuses. None of the 34 University of California or California State University campuses currently […]

January 31, 2018

Students

California Leaders Pledge $30M for Young Immigrants

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown and top lawmakers announced Tuesday that they plan to spend $30 million helping young immigrants with legal services and college financial aid. The announcement comes in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to end a program that gives temporary protection from deportation to people brought to the country […]

September 12, 2017

Students

California Fraternity Faces Charges After Trees Cut Down

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal authorities have charged a fraternity at California State University, Chico with illegally cutting down dozens of trees in a national forest during an initiation of new pledges, the U.S. Forest Service said. The complaint was filed Tuesday against the school’s Pi Kappa Alpha chapter and its president, Evan Jossey. The fraternity […]

May 17, 2017

Students

California State University Board Votes to Raise Tuition

SAN FRANCISCO — California State University’s governing board Wednesday approved the first tuition increase in six years for the system’s 23 campuses, drawing chants of opposition from students who said they’re already struggling to afford the cost of education. The board of trustees voted 11-8, approving a proposal that will increase undergraduate tuition by $270 […]

March 22, 2017

Students

At Her Core, Zurita-Lopez All About Helping

Dr. Cecilia I. Zurita-Lopez, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, knew at a young age that she wanted to help other people.

February 7, 2017

Leadership & Policy

California Universities Weigh First Tuition Hikes in 6 Years

SAN FRANCISCO —Faced with record high enrollment and the need to hire faculty, the University of California and California State University systems are considering raising tuition for the first time in six years. The proposed annual hikes – $270 at the 23 Cal State schools and $280 at UC’s nine undergraduate campuses — are being […]

November 16, 2016

Students

Brooks Gives Unique Perspective on Two Worlds at Cal State Fullerton

Dr. Siobhan Brooks has created the first class of its kind at Cal State Fulerton chronicling the Black LGBT experience.

June 14, 2016

African-American

Urban Colleges Dealing With Unique Retention Issues

No sprawling campus, a majority of commuter students, many ­first-generation college students and the necessity to work make retention and graduation efforts especially challenging at urban institutions.

October 8, 2015

Asian American Pacific Islander

Cal State Campuses Preserving Painful Piece of U.S. History

The archives of 15 California State University campuses are collaborating to digitize about 10,000 documents and 100-plus oral histories connected to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

July 5, 2015

Home

Cal State Student Group Wants Ban Overturned

The Chi Alpha student group has sent a letter to the California State University administrators seeking to have its local chapter reinstated on the Stanislaus campus.

March 17, 2015