Oct 31, 2007: Poll: Many Californians believe college is key, but out of reach (Sign On San Diego)
Many Californians believe a college education is key but consider it out of reach, a new poll says.

Oct 15, 2007: ON CALIFORNIA'S PRIORITIES: Privatize UC to balance the state budget? Undermine UC, undermine California's future (San Francisco Chronicle - B5)
Even before next year's state budget shortfall was estimated at $8.6 billion, I began to hear the budget ax yet again taking aim at California's students.

Oct 12, 2007: 'This is for everybody' (The Collegian)
Despite the name, Fresno State’s first Chicano-Latino Issues Forum isn’t just intended to address problems Chicanos and Latinos face. It’s meant for everyone on campus.

Oct 4, 2007: Suit claims CSU officials' retroactive pay hikes are illegal (SFGate)
Two taxpayers sued the California State University system on Wednesday, asserting that retroactive pay handed out recently to 26 top executives amounts to more than $100,000 in illegal gifts of public funds.

Oct 3, 2007: Extra compensation to UC employees jumps $59 million (San Francisco Chronicle - B3)
Extra compensation paid to University of California employees has risen to $975 million, a $59 million increase during the fiscal year that ended on June 30, according to figures released Tuesday.

Sep 30, 2007: High-Priced Student Loans Spell Trouble (The Huffington Post)
The near doubling in the cost of a college degree the past decade has produced an explosion in high-priced student loans that could haunt the U.S. economy for years.

Sep 21, 2007: Regents approve major fee hikes for 34 UC programs (Los Angeles Times)
DAVIS, Calif. -- The University of California Board of Regents approved a three-year plan Thursday for major fee increases at 34 professional schools that would push the cost of some law and business schools to $40,000 a year by 2010.

Sep 21, 2007: Higher pay = higher costs: UC regents raise salaries, student fees (San Francisco Chronicle)
In the more controversial of the two actions, the regents' decision to raise professional school fees would result, in some cases, in significant differences in the amounts charged at each campus, with some costing more than $40,000 a year.

Sep 20, 2007: High school, UC diversity gap grows (San Francisco Chronicle )
The gap between the diversity of students at the University of California and that of state high school graduates has risen to its highest level in nearly 20 years, and action must be taken, UC's governing board of regents declared yesterday.

Sep 20, 2007: Cal State trustees approve executive raises (Los Angeles Times)
Despite protests from faculty, students and state officials, trustees of the Cal State University on Wednesday awarded pay increases to 26 top administrators and campus presidents that averaged nearly 12% and in some cases amounted to raises of more than $44,000 a year.

May 21, 2007: Prisons' budget to trump colleges': No other big state spends as much to incarcerate compared with higher education funding (San Francisco Chronicle - A1)
As the costs for fixing the state's troubled corrections system rocket higher, California is headed for a dubious milestone -- for the first time the state will spend more on incarcerating inmates than on educating students in its public universities.

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