Author Archives: Adam Foxman

Community colleges are supposed to be the institutions where anyone can get a higher education. But as enrollment cuts funnel more students to community colleges, the colleges will have to turn more of them away. For the first time since the inception of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education, budget cuts have forced the […]

Dolores Huerta’s term as a regent expires today, and though Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has not said whether he will offer Huerta another term, his office has received over 1,800 e-mails and at least 50 letters asking that he reappoint her. Huerta, an activist who worked with César Chávez and co-founded the United Farm Workers of […]

Earlier this month, the California Legislative Analyst’s Office released a report suggesting the University of California could meet its enrollment goals despite reduced funding, but the report was based on outdated data. The report said the UC probably admits more than the top 12.5 percent of high school graduates that the California Master Plan for […]

Professors at the University of California received 439 new patents in 2003, making it the nation’s leading university in new patents for the 10th year in a row, according to a report released late last week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The California Institute of Technology posted a distant second with 139 new […]

As budgetary pressures and burgeoning enrollment close in on colleges and universities nationwide, many institutions are trying to accelerate students’ road to graduation. But The University of California is holding its course for now and resisting pressure from the state Legislature to discourage students from taking extra units and spending more time on a university […]

When fees go up and services go down at the University of California, as they often do during a budget crisis, many question the decisions of the university’s administrators. And both undergraduate and graduate students who want to have a voice and a vote in how the UC is run can apply to do just […]

Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers of America share many beliefs, but they have taken different paths in the Democratic primary elections. Huerta, a University of California regent and an activist for labor and education who helped found the labor organization, endorsed former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, as the UFW endorsed Massachusetts Sen. John […]