This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just last week California’s secretary of state officially certified that nearly two-thirds of Californians voted to pass Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to temporarily gerrymander the state’s congressional maps in favor of Democrats. Nevertheless, Republicans and the Trump administration are hopeful that a federal district […]
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Trump Broke the Law by Sending National Guard to L.A., Federal Judge Rules
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. President Donald Trump’s deployment of the military to Los Angeles violated federal laws and his use of the armed forces must be heavily curtailed in California, a federal judge ruled today in a 52-page opinion that inveighed against the president’s belief that he […]
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Cal State Faculty Ends Strike After Reaching Tentative Contract Agreement
A Cal State systemwide strike secured what more than half a year of negotiations and partial strikes couldn’t: a deal. Negotiators of the California Faculty Association and California State University finalized a tentative agreement last tonight, the union said, ending what would have been a week-long strike at the nation’s largest four-year public university system. […]
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Cal State Faculty Union Vows to Strike Over the University’s Final Pay Offer
The faculty union of the California State University is planning a week of strikes across the 23 campuses Jan. 22 – 26 after the system said this week that it would provide 5 percent raises to members, far below what the union is seeking. The California Faculty Association is asking for 12 percent raises this […]
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Cal State has a New Chancellor. Her Challenges Include the System’s Sexual Misconduct Allegations and Massive Budget Gap
A $1.5 billion budget shortfall, student outrage over planned annual 6 percent tuition hikes for at least five years, stubborn racial gaps in graduation rates and widespread distrust over how the university handles sexual assault claims. This is the job that awaits Mildred García, who was named chancellor of the California State University today. García, […]
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Cal State System Proposes Regular Tuition Hikes to Forestall Budget Gap
Multiple years of tuition increases are likely heading to California State University students as the 23-campus system seeks desperately needed cash to afford its academic mission. The institution on Thursday published its proposal to begin raising undergraduate and graduate school tuition by 6 percent annually starting in the fall 2024 academic year. For undergraduates, that […]
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New Report says Cal State has $1.5 Billion Funding Gap, Suggests Tuition Hikes
The nation’s largest public four-year university is presently incapable of affording itself. A 70-page report nearly a year in the making by leaders of the California State University details the massive gulf between the money the system currently generates from tuition and receives in state support and the actual costs of educating its nearly 500,000 […]
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‘Super Disappointed’: Lawmakers Want UC, CSU Systems to Enroll More Californians Sooner
“Frustrating.” One word, uttered under breath by a California lawmaker, captured a sentiment, at times boiling over into anger, among legislators struggling to get more California students into the University of California. What Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento, found frustrating last week was the UC’s seeming refusal to adopt the same systemwide guaranteed […]
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College Enrollment Decline Leads to Funding Changes for Underperforming Cal State Schools
The California State University system is putting campuses on notice: Enroll more students or lose money. It’s a stunning reversal of fortune for the 23 campuses of the country’s largest public university system, which have collectively lost 27,000 students in two years — part of a national wave of declining college enrollment. In fall 2020, […]
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California to Give $2,500 Training Grant to Workers Who Lost Jobs During Pandemic
Living through a pandemic sucks, but for Diana McLaughlin, early 2020 was especially bad: A divorce in February 2020, societal shut-down in March, and as part of the COVID-19 economic fallout, she lost her job in April of that year, returning to full-time work only 18 months later. California lawmakers had economically distressed folks like […]
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Cal State Raises Issue with Cal Grant Expansion
The campaign to expand free tuition to more low-income California students has been riding a wave of unanimous goodwill, despite its large costs. But the state’s — and nation’s — largest public university system has made public its concern that key trade-offs required for that expansion will be a financial burden for some middle-class students. […]
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The Collapse of Community College Enrollment: Can California Turn it Around?
After community college enrollment collapsed in late 2020, California lawmakers last year gave the system of public two-year colleges $120 million to help stem the tide of departing students and bring them back. So far, progress has been uneven. Through last fall, just 17 of California’s 116 community colleges have seen the number of students […]