California Colleges offer gift cards, outdoor activities in bid to make spring break a staycation By Michael Burke and Ashley A. Smith | EdSource | March 18, 2021 Universities and colleges across California want students to ditch flights and a vacation week far from home in a bid to keep coronavirus infection numbers on downward trajectory.
California California educators want Congress to double the maximum Pell Grant award By Michael Burke | EdSource | March 9, 2021 More than 700,000 students at California’s public colleges and universities currently receive Pell Grants.
California CSU faculty seek paid leave for juggling caretaking and online teaching By Ashley A. Smith | EdSource | March 2, 2021 Women faculty warn that without relief gender inequity in academe may persist
California California colleges slowly begin vaccinating faculty, students — but likely won’t require immunization By Matthew Reagan, Zaeem Shaikh, Shehreen Karim, Ryan Loyola, Elena Shao, and Mallika Seshadri | CalMatters | February 26, 2021 College leadership, faculty, and students weigh advantages and disadvantages of returning to in-person instruction in the fall.
California Should California get another science-focused university? By Larry Gordon | EdSource | February 14, 2021 Humboldt State has seen sharp enrollment drops, but a Cal Poly designation might attract more prestige, funding and students.
California Why the University of California has a massive surge in freshman applications By Michael Burke | EdSource | February 11, 2021 College access experts attribute the massive spike in applications partially to the elimination of the SAT and ACT in admissions.
College Teaching about pandemics and inequality in real-time By Jodi Benenson and Tara Kolar Bryan, University of Nebraska Omaha | The Conversation | February 5, 2021 A graduate student course centered around pandemics, protest, and policy brought past and current issues together in real time.
California Newsom proposes ‘dual admission’ program for community college transfer students By Ashley A. Smith | EdSource | February 3, 2021 The new program would ease student transfer from community college to a specific California State University or University of California campus.
California UC Berkeley sees another COVID-19 surge By Bay City News and Exedra Staff | February 1, 2021 Surge impact sees 44 new cases and in one day and includes students in campus housing.
College Berkeley de-names another hall, fourth in 12 months By Keith Burbank | Bay City News | January 29, 2021 Anthropologist Alfred Kroeber continues to be associated with the ideas of exclusion and erasure of Native Americans.