College Trustees Skip Work But Still Get Paid
The City College of San Francisco is violating state law by paying trustees who regularly skip meetings. Records show there were only five meetings in which all Board…
San Francisco Chronicle
Dump Colombia education reforms, thousands demand
Tens of thousands of students skipped classes to chant, march and dance down the streets of the capital Thursday, paralyzing the city in an ongoing struggle over the…
NSF awards $10 million grant to Stanford University to launch national center to educate entrepreneurial engineers
The National Science Foundation has awarded a five-year, $10 million grant to launch a national center for teaching innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering, based at Stanford University, reports…
Bill to curb California college execs’ pay raises
Days after California's public universities handed lucrative new pay and bonuses to three executives and a chancellor while raising student tuition, a state senator has introduced a bill…
Community college system looking into online fees
California community college officials are looking into whether students are being charged improper fees to access online courses at campuses across the state, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Stanford students can opt for time-outs
More than 1,700 students crossed the stage Sunday to receive one of the most prestigious documents in academia: a Stanford University degree. But some in the class weren't…
WCET receives grant for groundbreaking higher education analytic research
WICHE, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, announced today that WCET, the WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies, has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the Bill &…
Compassion in education theme of TED conference in East Bay June 11
Prospect Sierra has partnered with U.C. Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center to host a TEDx conference on the topic of compassion in education, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
Blind law student wins computer aid for bar exam
A blind law student can use computer-assisted reading devices in next month's bar exam, a federal judge has ruled, rejecting the examiners' arguments that the assistance was too…