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(CSULA - UT) With the race to fill the Provost seat down to the wire, the introduction of the two finalist, Dr. Ashish Vaidya and Dr. Paul Wong, took place on Monday, August 8th and Tuesday August 9th at the University Student Union where bo...
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Congress began to wade into debate over changing U.S. immigration policy on Tuesday, when Democrats in the House of Representatives introduced a broad overhaul bill that includes provisions to open up some federal education aid to people who were brough...
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(CSULA - UT) On January 5, 2010 at a Washington, DC high school Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the unveiling of a new "student-friendly" version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
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CSULA – UT) Every year the third Monday of January is reserved to celebrate the life of one of the greatest civil rights leaders in the United States, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was born Michael Luther King Jr. on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta,...
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(San Francisco - UT) The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday to put an indefinite block on allowing cameras to record the ground breaking federal court trial on the same-sex marriage ban in California.
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A lowdown on the budget.
Final of two part series.
Last week, in the first of two parts the state’s economic downturn was summarized, along with the state’s dysfunctional tax-revenue system. This week The CSU picture.
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The fight for students’ rights never rests even during finals week. Yesterday at 11:00AM, 125 students from the school of Social Work at CSULA organized and participated in a rally protesting the state’s 2010-2011 budget, and its impact on public hi...
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A Jacaranda tree located outside of the student bookstore, to the right of the Golden Eagle statue, toppled over blocking the main student walkway. The 100 plus year old tree rotted at the base. The tree will have to be fully removed. It is not yet know...
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On Tuesday, December 1 at 10:52 a.m., 18 year-old CSULA pre-nursing student, Elizabeth Amstone, died in a car crash on the 605 southbound freeway near Arrow Highway.
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Hundreds of students lined up around the University Student Union Tuesday to get their free H1N1 Swine Flu vaccination. The shots were provided by the Los Angeles Department of Public Health, as part of the 250 million doses of 2009 H1N1 vaccines purcha...
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According to U.S. News & World Reports, only 54 of 5,000-plus American colleges and universities say they will provide enough aid to cover students’ financial needs. Some of these colleges have admitted to giving aid mainly to middle and upper cla...
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Metro held a celebration last Sunday for the expansion of the Metro Gold Line from Downtown LA to East LA. The Gold Line stretches 26 miles from Sierra Madre Villa in the north east to Pasdena, through Huntington Park and Downtown and then eastward agai...
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A great sense of gratitude and optimism pervaded the speeches that Laura Jaime and Fermin Vasquez, members of CSULA’s Students United to Reach Goals in Education (S.U.R.G.E), gave at the November 12th panel discussion held at the USU, which focused on...
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Despite all the protests and demonstrations being held by students to oppose tuition hikes and the cutting of class sections across the higher education sector, revenue for public education continues to decline from the state of California as it continu...
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It’s been a week of protests in the CSU system. Yesterday there was a protest in Long Beach, today there is a planned walkout at Cal Poly Pomona, and on Monday students and California Faculty Association members at CS...
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On October 14, the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning and Competitiveness held a hearing to examine the practices of for-profit colleges. The hearing was precipitated by a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Offi...
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A total of 111,140 prospective students submitted their applications for admission to CSU between Oct. 1, 2009 and Oct. 15, 2009.
This number is almost double the number of applicants submitted last year during the same two week period—62520.
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Amidst the typical campus lunch hour rush, senior Alexis Gardner stands calmly in front of the student union, hips cocked casually to one side, face angled sleepily towards the sun, cigarette placed carefully and deliberately between her lips. She...
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Since the start of fall quarter, female students at CSULA have been getting a free mini-lesson in the economics of health care. Paps, pills, and pregnancy tests were among the free services offered to students under Family PACT, however a lag in f...
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Last Tuesday, President Obama’s campaign to remake US health care took a giant leap forward when the Senate Finance Committee approved his $829 billion plan. According to Obama, this plan is supposed to cut medical costs and extend coverage to the 4...
