Calif. faculty union approves furloughs, pay cuts

A union that represents 22,000 California State University faculty members has agreed to take furloughs two days a month to help close a huge budget deficit at the 23-campus system, officials said Friday.

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California State University East Bay has fired a math teacher after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word "nonviolently" in her state-required Oath of Allegiance form. Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker and graduate student who began teaching remedial math to undergra …

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"The 417,000 students at California State University's 28 campuses are expected to be civil to one another, the university says in its policy manual."

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It's the stuff of movies such as War Games but two California men accused of hacking into a University database system to change their grades face up to 20 years imprisonment.

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Could people one day evolve to eat rich food while remaining perfectly slim and svelte? This may not be so wild a fantasy. It is becoming clear that the human genome does respond to changes in diet, even though it takes many generations to do so.

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Born in 1932 and raised in Los Angeles, Rodolfo Acuna is a Chicano activist of Mexican ancestry and a professor emeritus of Chicana/o studies at California State University in Northridge (CSUN).

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California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, is persecuting its own librarian for trying to save 300,000 library books from destruction, threatening to have him brought up on criminal charges for simply trying to tell people that the university is planning to destroy the book …

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In his effort to save the printed books, journals and periodicals in the library, Bruce Emerton, tenured librarian, has alienated the library administration, his colleagues and the CSU's Office of the Chancellor.

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If you want to know what higher education will look like in a few years, you might ask Charles Reed, chancellor of the largest four-year university system in the United States.

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