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Ex-regent questions UCSD's promise to boost black enrollment

California Watch, Ward Connerly, UCSD, Christopher Edley
Former University of California regent and affirmative action foe Ward Connerly is jumping into the fray at UC San Diego, where the chancellor has vowed to increase black student enrollment in the midst of several racially charged incidents at that...

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo slow to fulfill promise to donor

California Watch, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Ross Brown
Five years after entrepreneur Ross Brown donated $1.5 million to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to endow a professorship, the College of Engineering still has not hired a professor to fill the job, Cal Coast News reports. Brown and his family have given...

After 40-year ban, ROTC program may return to Stanford

Army ROTC
UPDATE: The Stanford University faculty senate voted this week to form a committee to "investigate Stanford's role in preparing students for leadership in the military, including potential relations with ROTC," a spokeswoman for the...

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