The California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley, and California State University Chancellor Timothy White announced that the State of California is filing a lawsuit against the Trump Administration’s “unlawful policy that threatens to exacerbate the spread of COVID-19 and exile hundreds of thousands of college students studying in the United States […]
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CSU Suspends College Entrance Exam Requirements
The California State University system has announced it will temporarily suspend the use of college entrance examinations in determining admission eligibility across all of its campuses. The announcement comes on the heels of Humboldt State University’s announcement that it is facing a ballooning budget deficit projected to reach more than $20 million over two years […]
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Cal State Coronavirus: Your Questions Answered About how CSUs Are Navigating COVID
You’ve got questions about how your CSU education will be disrupted during the coronavirus pandemic. Chancellor Tim White has answers. In a wide-ranging discussion with CalMatters’ College Journalism Network on Thursday, the chancellor discussed fee refunds, support for faculty teaching online, and more. Here’s what we learned. For more details, watch the full interview with […]
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Slush Fund or Healthy Reserves?
Both the California State University system and Humboldt State University have sharply disputed a June 20 report from the California State Auditor’s Office, which charged that the CSU system is sitting on an undisclosed $1.5 billion budget surplus, which included more than $62 million from HSU. The bombshell report and subsequent pushback have left lawmakers […]
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Does California State University have a $1.5 billion slush fund?
A report released by California’s state auditor this week looked like a bombshell: California State University has been sitting on a $1.5 billion budget surplus, it found, failing to fully disclose the existence of the money to legislators and students even as it raised tuition and lobbied for more state funding. That includes $62.4 million […]
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HSU Settles Suit with Ousted Indian Program Director
A former Humboldt State University program director and student mentor has settled the lawsuit she brought against the university last year, agreeing to accept $105,000 in exchange for dropping the suit and refraining from criticizing the school. Jacquelyn Bolman, former director of HSU’s Indian Natural Resources Science and Engineering Program, alleged in the federal lawsuit […]