For the last decade Teague O’Shea has been in and out of college. Now, at 42 years old, he is trying again. Furthering his education was important to O’Shea, who had been working as an apprentice electrician for his local water district, but the rising cost of college made him question its worth. “California is […]
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NCJ Preview: Post-Chinese Expulsion History, Student Housing and Pizza
This week, we’re looking back on how anti-Chinese racism kept a cannery from making money for the Eel River Valley in the 1880s. And as the housing drama at Cal Poly Humboldt grows, we’ve got an update on how the university plans to house incoming and continuing students. We’re also sinking our teeth into the […]
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UPDATE: Most Cal Poly Humboldt On-Campus Housing to Go Freshmen-Only, Protest Planned
Citing anticipated “unprecedented growth” due to its recent Cal Poly Humboldt status, the university is limiting the vast majority of on-campus housing to freshmen starting next year, which could leave an unknown number of students without a university-managed option amid an already impacted rental market. The decision could displace as many as 1,000 students currently […]
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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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Rio Dell Schools Reopening Tuesday
Rio Dell School District schools, which include Eagle Prairie Elementary and Monument Middle School, are set to reopen Tuesday, Jan. 10, after the schools were forced to close due to damage sustained during the Dec. 20 earthquake and Jan. 1 aftershock. On Monday, Jan. 9, RDSD will be holding an in-service day for its staff […]
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Colleges Experiment with Restorative Justice in Sexual Assault Cases
When a sexual assault survivor walks into Alexandra Fulcher’s office at Occidental College, it’s the first step in a process fraught with consequences for both the survivor and the accused. If Fulcher, the school’s Title IX director, launches an official investigation, the survivor could be asked to recount their trauma and cross-examined about it in […]
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NCJ Preview: Fires, Boarding School Legacy, Cartoon Controversy and More
This week we’re recapping the cover story on the year in wildfires and a story about Harvard University holding hair samples from Native children who attended boarding schools. We’re talking about reader responses and our editorial decision making over a cartoon some felt was anti-Semitic. We’ve also got a birding hot spot in an unlikely […]
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Cal Poly President Apologizes for Title IX Comments
Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr. sent out a personal message to the campus community this morning apologizing for comments he made about Title IX investigations during his fall welcome address that some felt were misinformed at best or at worst an overt attempt to silence survivors of sexual assault and harassment. The message […]
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Eureka High Volunteer Coach Arrested for Alleged Child Sex Abuse
A volunteer coach for the Eureka High School boys basketball team was arrested by the Fortuna Police Department Wednesday on suspicion of a series of charges involving the sexual abuse of a child under 14. Eureka City Schools sent out a news release today stating the district was aware of Nathan Thomas Hentley’s arrest. He […]
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Universities Can’t Yank Financial Aid from Students Who Get Private Scholarships, New Law Says
As Dixie Samaniego prepared for her first semester at California State University Fullerton, she had one focus: finding a way to pay. “I knew that my family wasn’t going to be able to pay, or help in any way financially,” said Samaniego, now a senior, “so I started applying to scholarships everywhere.” As a low-income […]
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NCJ Preview: CPH’s Title IX Trouble and a Busy Halloween
This week, we’re talking about Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr.’s stunning comments about Title IX, the federal law requiring equal access to education. Those comments come as a former CPH student athlete is going through a Title IX process regarding her claim of sexual assault by her coach’s husband. We’ve also got the review […]
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CDC’s Move Paves Way for California to Require School COVID Vaccines — But Lawmakers Have Given Up for Now
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccination advisors voted last week to recommend all children get the COVID-19 vaccine, a move that does not change California’s list of vaccines required for children to attend school. The addition of the COVID-19 vaccine to the CDC’s recommended vaccines for kids is not a mandate for […]