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Report: Colleges Will Need $1.5B More in 2019

By the next decade, California’s public colleges are going to need space for nearly 400,000 more students. That’s according to enrollment projections for higher education that the California Postsecondary Education Commission released this week.
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16% rise in undergrads on California’s state campuses predicted – Los Angeles Times

AsiaOne 16% rise in undergrads on California's state campuses predicted Los Angeles Times The report also said that if the state does not fully fund enrollment for the three college systems, at least to 2008-09 levels, as many as 277000 students ... Report: Colleges will need $1.5B more in 2019 Bizjournals.com UC System Overload: 16 Percent Enrollment Increase Expected Huffington Post (blog) California College Tuition Comparable to Other States My California Degree Chico News & Review all 52 news articles
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Financial Affairs: Why the Endowment-Spending Debate Matters Now More Than Ever (Chronicle of Higher Education)

"Despite plunging endowment values, colleges continue to face big questions over whether they spend enough of their endowments for society's benefit to justify the tax exemption they get," the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "The events of the past two years are also raising a crop of provocative new endowment questions that deserve center stage in campus boardrooms and faculty senates. On the 'big question' front, one intriguing idea comes from the chancellor of the California State University system, Charles B. Reed, who has been pushing a proposal to reward institutions that enroll higher numbers of Pell Grant students with more federal money and withhold support from colleges whose Pell enrollments fall below 15 percent."
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Financial Affairs: Why the Endowment-Spending Debate Matters Now More Than Ever (Chronicle of Higher Education)

"Despite plunging endowment values, colleges continue to face big questions over whether they spend enough of their endowments for society's benefit to justify the tax exemption they get," the Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "The events of the past two years are also raising a crop of provocative new endowment questions that deserve center stage in campus boardrooms and faculty senates. On the 'big question' front, one intriguing idea comes from the chancellor of the California State University system, Charles B. Reed, who has been pushing a proposal to reward institutions that enroll higher numbers of Pell Grant students with more federal money and withhold support from colleges whose Pell enrollments fall below 15 percent."
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Defending public education at my favorite college campus. I'm a …

Defending public education at my favorite college campus. I'm a proud grad of UIC. 2010 March 9. tags: UIC. by preaprez
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A Better Way to Balance Budgets

State leaders in California and elsewhere are choosing to cap enrollments and raise tuition. Increasing enrollments and holding the line on fees might work better, writes Arthur Hauptman.
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California Told to Get Ready for Another 400,000 Students

New enrollment projections suggest that California's colleges need to find room for another 400,000 students by 2019, and that the state could be on a path of turning away many of them. The findings come from the California Postsecondary Education Commission. The enrollment demands will be especially strong for Latino students, whose numbers could go up by more than 40 percent over the decade.
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Bias Incidents Roil University of California

An ugly spate of bias incidents has crossed several University of California campuses over the past month, causing consternation, outcry and fear that bigotry is alive among the young and educated.
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March on Everywhere! (Inside Higher Ed)

"In an unprecedented day of national protest across all sectors of education, the epicenter proved to be [Berkeley, California] where the seeds of student activism were sown more than 40 years ago," Inside Higher Ed reports. "Protests, students and others elsewhere took to the streets and their campuses, too. Police officers in Milwaukee broke up a crowd with pepper spray and arrested 15 people when a protest at the University of Wisconsin's campus there turned violent ... In Olympia, Wash., students from Evergreen State College held a mock funeral with a casket that said 'RIP Education' and got tossed out of the state Senate."
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Education: Morning Roundup [California Edition!] (GOOD)

Morning Roundup: From the Los Angeles Times : Thousands protest California education cuts Rallies and walkouts are largely peaceful, but 150 are arrested in Oakland as a freeway is blocked. The demonstrations are part of a nationwide 'Day of Action for Public Education.' From Gawker : These College Protests Look Like So Much Fun So, there was this big "day of action" on college campuses today ...
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