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Public education in California faces perilous 'funding cliff'

February 10, 2010, 12:07am | Louis Freedberg

The billions of federal stimulus dollars helping fund public education in California represent a double-edged sword.There is no question that the funds have helped California's public schools avert fiscal disaster.But it also means that in a very short period of time, the money will run out – in the case of colleges and universities, by next August – and when that happens, the state’s education institutions could find themselves falling into an even deeper financial abyss...

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UCLA launches committee to find savings, increase revenue

UCLA has launched a new committee tasked with cutting costs and boosting revenues – anticipating a continuing decline in state support for the...

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Financial benefit of college degree may be overstated

As the cost of attending college continues to rise and graduates find it increasingly harder to pay off student debt, more and more media reports...

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California Watch, ghostwriting, Stanford, University of California

Most top California med schools don't ban ghostwriting

At a time when concern about the practice has hit a fever pitch, a new study reveals that only 13 of the country's top 50 academic medical centers...

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

March 10, 2010, 12:04am

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...

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Cal Poly San Luis Obispo slow to fulfill promise to donor

March 5, 2010, 12:04am

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...

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