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Breaking from over a decade of traditionally not raising tuition for its students, Cal State leaders on Thursday released a proposal that would start annual increases in fall 2024. They say it’s the only way to make up a shortfall between operating costs and revenues.

The recent spike in COVID-19 cases in California and across the country from the highly infectious delta variant “is an alarming new factor that we must consider as we look to maintain the health and well-being of students, employees and visitors to our campuses this fall," CSU Chancellor Joseph I. Castro said.Students and staff will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before accessing any California State University campus facilities, the nation’s biggest four-year college system said on Tuesday. The CSU system previously said it was planning to require vaccinations and that a formal mandate would depend on when the...

Courses on ethnic studies and social justice will soon be required for graduation from California State University after its board of trustees Wednesday approved a proposal to add such courses as a three-unit requirement in the nation's largest public university system. After six years of developing a plan with a broad array of classes covering ethnic issues and academic studies, the trustees have approved the first changes to the school's general education curriculum in 40 years. But some critics want a narrower focus only on ethnic studies -- not social justice -- which is part of a parallel proposal under...

Instead of spreading school spirit a mascot has caused some controversy on a local college campus. As CBSLA's Jo Kwon tells us, administrators at Cal State Long Beach are now taking action.

The professor who tweeted “Trump must hang” and that two Republicans should be executed for each immigrant deported is taking a paid leave of absence for the rest of the spring semester. Professor Lars Maischak of California State University, Fresno agreed upon the leave of absence with the university

A faculty member at California State University, Fullerton has been suspended after striking a College Republicans member during a campus protest earlier this month. The altercation occurred Feb. 8 as pro-Palestine students and counter-protesters marched peacefully through campus. Anthropology part-time lecturer Eric Canin reportedly approached the group of counter-protesters — many of them being CSUF College Republicans members — and tried to rip a sign out of a student’s hand. Mr. Canin was accused of then striking another student who tried to step between them. The group’s president, Chris Boyle, said he witnessed the hit and proceeded to restrain Mr....

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Cal State L.A. parents and students are voicing their shock after learning students’ fees were set to fund an event about sex toys, before CBS2 questioned administrators about the plans. An upset parent first made us aware of the event, revealing her 18-year-old daughter brought home a flyer promoting “Sex Toys R Us.” University administrators say they didn’t know the nature of the event until CBS2’s inquiries and subsequently decided to call it off. “It is shocking when you see it,” student Laura Maturino said after looking at a copy of the black-and-white flier for the...

In a Dec. 5 op-ed, the president of California State University (CSU) claimed if you are “light skinned” you have “significant unearned privilege” and routinely think less of those who are different than yourself. In her piece, “Privilege at The Beach,”—referencing the Long Beach area where the school resides—Jane Close Conoley, a white woman herself, asserts that “light skin color and high income levels may attract significant unearned privilege.” Those who qualify for such privilege, often unknowingly exert distrust and “lower expectations of behavior” on those of another skin color. “Those who are less affluent with darker skin or from...

California State University faculty announced today that they have approved a measure to give their union leaders the power to authorize a strike next fall that could delay the beginning of school for thousands of students across the 23-campus university system. At a noon press conference at Cal State Long Beach, the California Faculty Association announced that faculty had approved the measure by 95 percent of those who voted . . .

San Fernando, Calif. (AP) -- A California university professor has been charged with peeing on a colleague's campus office door. Prosecutors charged 43-year-old Tihomir Petrov, a math professor at California State University, Northridge, ...

A California lawmaker said Wednesday that a state university is breaking the law by failing to disclose correspondence about an upcoming fundraiser appearance by Sarah Palin. Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, filed a public records request with California State University, Stanislaus last week, requesting any documents related to the former Alaska governor's scheduled June 25 speech to mark the school's 50th anniversary. The university's compliance officer, Gina Leguria, responded to Yee on Tuesday, saying there were no such documents. Yee said he has evidence to the contrary. On Wednesday, he circulated a March 29 sent from a top university administrator...

Calif. lawmaker: Silence on Palin visit unlawful Associated Press Writer Published Wednesday, Apr. 07, 2010 SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A California lawmaker said Wednesday that a state university is breaking the law by failing to disclose correspondence about an upcoming fundraiser appearance by Sarah Palin. Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, filed a public records request with California State University, Stanislaus last week, requesting any documents related to the former Alaska governor's scheduled June 25 speech to mark the school's 50th anniversary. The university's compliance officer, Gina Leguria, responded to Yee on Tuesday, saying there were no such documents. Yee said he...

... Mr. Macias is just one of more than 26,000 students at San Francisco State, and now educational opportunities cost more and are harder to grasp and even harder to hold onto than ever before. Mr. Macias’s experience of truncated offerings, furloughed professors and crowded classrooms is typical. ... Terry Hartle, the senior vice president of the American Council on Education, a [higher education] trade association, confirmed that higher education in California has become akin to navigating an obstacle course. ... In 1960, he added, the state created “the gold standard in high-quality, low-cost public higher education. This year, the...

Cal State Students, It's Time To Stand Up Faculty, staff and students at Cal State Long Beach stage a mock funeral for higher education last week. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Budget cuts are taking away the right to an inexpensive public education, depriving many of the right to move up. By Hector Tobar September 29, 2009 I was invited to Cal State L.A. for a "Walk of Shame." On a three-hour tour of the academic pride of L.A.'s Eastside, I met a laid-off sociology lecturer and saw overcrowded classrooms where students were being turned away from courses...

The sister of President Barack Obama will speak at California State University, Sacramento, on Tuesday. Maya Soetoro-Ng will talk about leadership and service at a 2 p.m. speech in the University Union Ballroom. She is a high school teacher in Hawaii and a lecturer at the University of Hawaii's College of Education. Her focus is on world history, multicultural education and nonviolence. Soetoro-Ng was invited to campus by Boatamo Mosupyoe, director of CSUS' Cooper-Woodson College Enhancement Program.

Hard hit by budget cuts, the California State University system is planning to cut its enrollment by 10,000 students for the 2009-10 academic year, unless state lawmakers provide more money. “We can’t continue to admit more and more students without receiving adequate funding,” Chancellor Charles B. Reed said Monday. It would be the first time in its history that the university system turned away students who met admissions standards, and the announcement was greeted with disappointment and anger. “We have put the education system on a starvation diet, and each and every year it becomes weaker,” said Lt. Gov. John...

Sacramento, CA (AP) -- A state appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit challenging a policy that allows some illegal immigrants to pay lower in-state tuition to attend California's public colleges and universities. The 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said Monday that a lower court erred in dismissing the suit brought by 42 students who paid far more to attend college because they were out-of-state residents. At issue is a 2002 law that made any California high school graduate who attended at least three years of high school in the state eligible for in-state fee breaks, regardless of immigration...

Amber Tracy spent the past academic year studying Arabic. But with a full-time job and other classes, she wasn't progressing as quickly as she had wanted. On June 23, she began an intensive Arabic program at Cal State San Bernardino, learning Arabic all day and practicing it in residence halls well into the night. "I think I've learned more in the last week than I did all last semester," Tracy said after finishing a lunch of Arab-style chicken, rice and salad with her tutors and other students. "Being able to focus on Arabic and not think about anything else is...

BERKELEY Leaders of California's public universities, roiled by reports that some top officials were quietly paid millions, are pledging to be more open about executive pay. At the California State University trustees' meeting in Long Beach on Tuesday, Chancellor Charles Reed endorsed a proposal to make sure the system's board members and the public knows about compensation deals given to departing executives. Meanwhile, officials at the University of California said they would be more public about setting salaries for the top ranks. "UC has an obligation to be open and accessible to the public, and the university is committed to...

SAN FRANCISCO California State University secretly paid millions of dollars to outgoing campus presidents and top executives, in some cases keeping them on the payroll up to five years after leaving office. Neither the chancellor nor trustees at the nation's largest public university system publicly disclosed the "transition pay," lucrative consulting contracts and tenured teaching positions, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday. Chancellor Charles B. Reed said his office spent as much as $4 million over the past decade for "special assignments" and paid leave for former campus presidents and vice chancellors. Reed said in a June 23 e-mail to...