Research assistants from the University of California and California State University systems may soon be able to unionize. The California State Senate passed Senate Bill 259 – a bill aimed to expand collective bargaining rights for more research assistants – on Aug. 23 with a vote of 46-27. SB 259[Read More…]
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Tentative legislation aims to clarify loan options
In an attempt to curb rising student debt, the Know Before You Owe Act of 2012 has been introduced to supplement the U.S. Department of Education’s new financial aid shopping sheet. The bill aims to better educate students on their financial aid options. Introduced by Senators Dick Durban (D-IL) and[Read More…]
Website names CSULB professor No. 15 in the nation
Ratemyprofessors.com is not always known for its glowing accolades, yet this popular online site has named a Cal State Long Beach professor as one of the best in the nation. Thomas Douglas, an anthropology lecturer at CSULB, was ranked No. 15 in the nation on the website’s Highest Rated University[Read More…]
Nine ASI Senators abstain in voting
In an effort to move forward a resolution in support of Proposition 30 at the Associated Students, Inc. senate meeting, almost half of the senate abstained from the vote – a vote that ASI President John Haberstroh said shouldn’t even be a second guess. Cal State Long Beach’s ASI is[Read More…]
State’s emission rule could cost universities millions
California public universities are faced with a dilemma: lose their carbon and greenhouse gas emissions or lose their green. Assembly Bill 32, also known as the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act, set a goal to reduce California greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 1990 levels within the next eight years. Campuses,[Read More…]
Cal State Long Beach senior chosen to work on Capitol Hill for fall 2012
John Sellers isn’t old enough to work in Congress, yet the Cal State Long Beach senior will be able to work on Capitol Hill with the House of Representatives this fall. Sellers, a 23-year-old senior who left for Washington, D.C. on Aug. 27, will spend 11 weeks working full-time in[Read More…]
CSULB ranks among the top for awarding degrees to minorities
Cal State Long Beach ranked ninth in the nation last week for awarding baccalaureate degrees to minority students. In the year of 2010-11, minorities earned 54 percent of all bachelor’s degrees awarded at CSULB, according to this year’s listing of the “Top 100 Degree Producers” by Diverse: Issues in Higher[Read More…]
CSULB shuttles change route
Editor’s Note: This article has been edited to correct the misspelling of CSULB Alternative Transportation Coordinator Elissa Thomas’s name. The shuttle services may not be a group of young British boys with charming smiles, but they have all started to go in one direction around campus. In an effort to[Read More…]
Weight lost, money gained
Two hundred pounds ago, 24-year-old Cal State Long Beach engineering graduate student Edgar Ortiz never thought he would be a healthy man with $10,000 in his wallet. “I’m literally half the man I used to be, but twice the man I was,” Ortiz said. In November 2009, Ortiz’s best friend[Read More…]
Foreign students struggle for classes
Growing up in Sweden, journalism major Kim Nordlund always dreamt of living in Los Angeles. As a member of the Cal State Long Beach’s University Study at the Beach program, Nordlund got her chance this year, but the struggle to find classes may force her to return home earlier than[Read More…]