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Exit of UC president’s aides brings university scandal back into spotlight
Is University of California President Janet Napolitano attempting to scapegoat two of her top aides for a scandal that enraged the California Legislature? Or were the aides’ abrupt resignations last week a Napolitano message to regents and lawmakers that she
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Homelessness surging among California college students
Reporting from across California indicates that more college students are homeless than at any point in state history. While hard statistics are in short supply, surveys suggest the problem is so severe that the Golden State has far more than
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CA colleges’ responses vary in disputes over Israel
Over the past six weeks, UCLA, UC Irvine and San Diego State University have all been roiled by disputes over Israel and its treatment of Palestinians — and over how campus administrators have handled the fallout. At San Diego State
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Honors belie years of gloom-and-doom talk about UC system
For at least seven years, we’ve heard University of California officials and Democratic lawmakers describe budget “cuts” at UC as being so devastating they threatened the system’s elite reputation. I recall hearing surrogates for Jerry Brown say in 2010 that
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