College athletes in California could soon be getting paid, thanks to a proposed legislation introduced earlier this year. However, the money will not be coming from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). State Senator Nancy Skinner introduced Senate Bill 206 (SB 206), which would allow players to get compensated for sponsorship opportunities. The proposed legislation […]

According to an investigative report released earlier this month, officials in the University of California president’s office improperly interfered with a state audit of UC finances, instructed campuses not to “air dirty laundry” in an audit survey, and misled the regents about why they did it. An independent investigation by former state Supreme Court Justice […]

Concern over increasing tuition rates and soaring student debt has driven a rapidly expanding campaign for free public higher education at the local, state, and national level. In California, lawmakers, political candidates and education advocates are among those pushing for ways to get rid of fees and other costs for some students. This fall, San […]

After state Auditor Elaine Howle’s advise to the Legislature to establish better oversight of the University of California president’s office, California lawmakers looked to propose a change to the state Constitution and a new budget measure to help them take control of spending by UC President Janet Napolitano’s office. This comes after a state audit […]

There is a new scandal involving the University of California and its state audit. The audit had revealed that there is $175 million in secret reserves in UC President Janet Napolitano’s office that was not disclosed to the public or the governing Board of Regents. The new scandal involves interference in the audit by the […]

Mechanical engineers at the University of California at Berkeley have researched the structure of a knot to figure out why certain knots on shoelaces fail. Lead researcher Christopher Daily-Diamond states: When you talk about knotted structures, if you can start to understand the shoelace, then you can apply it to other things, like DNA or […]

Facing a budget shortfall of more than a hundred million dollars, the University of California Board of Regents expressed doubts at its bimonthly meeting Wednesday that it could sustain the current tuition freeze for students. “Obviously, none of us want to increase tuition,” board chairman Bruce D. Varner said. But realistically, “we will need to […]

The Great Recession appears to be easing, but at least one group in California remains financially stressed – students at the University of California. Tuition, now at about $13,000 a year, has skyrocketed 62 percent since 2007, a figure that doesn’t include an array of necessities, such as books, health insurance, transportation and other costs. When those […]

The Sacramento Bee is reporting that both Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, and Assemblyman Jeff Gorell, R-Camarillo, have introduced a pair of bills that would freeze tuition at the University of California and California State University for the seven-year duration of the higher tax rates mandated by Proposition 30. Since voters approved the tax measure last […]