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By David R. Baker It’s either the future of high-speed travel or Elon Musk’s craziest idea yet. Or both. Musk, the billionaire serial entrepreneur behind Tesla Motors and SpaceX, on Monday revealed plans for a transportation system that could whisk passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes through a set of tubes. […]
By Kristen V. Brown After decades on the rise, obesity rates declined slightly among low-income preschoolers in California and 18 other states and U.S. territories between 2008 and 2011, according to a report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The percentage of low-income obese children ages 2 to 4 dipped from […]
By Nanette Asimov Thousands of graduate students across the state — future architects, engineers, dental hygienists and others — got a one-year reprieve from yearly fee hikes Wednesday after University of California officials concluded that raising the price of dozens of programs was a political risk. “You don’t want to alienate the people who make […]
By Nanette Asimov SAN FRANCISCO — Over the objections of Jewish organizations, the University of California regents on Wednesday selected a new student regent whose advocacy for divesting from Israel, and her outspokenness against “Islamophobia,” has placed her in the center of one of the most divisive issues in campus politics: Israeli-Palestinian relations. Sadia Saifuddin […]
By Nanette Asimov The surprising nomination Friday of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to lead the University of California was greeted with delight by faculty leaders and UC observers, and with cautious optimism by students and some faculty watchdogs. Napolitano, 55, will step down from her Cabinet post to become UC’s 20th president and the […]
By Nanette Asimov State officials stripped authority from the elected Board of Trustees for City College of San Francisco on Monday and installed a “special trustee” with unilateral powers to try to save the school from losing accreditation in one year. The dramatic move by California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice Harris and the college system’s […]
By Wyatt Buchanan SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed into law a new state budget for the fiscal year beginning Monday, calling it a “momentous occasion” for California’s finances, which have been on a roller coaster for years. “We have a balanced budget, not proposed, but actually actualized – the first time in […]
By Bob Egelko Environmentalists have won a round in the state Supreme Court in their challenge to a planned expansion of the campus at UC Santa Cruz. The University of California and the city of Santa Cruz had appealed a lower-court ruling requiring the city to conduct a new environmental study and consider alternative plans […]
If approved as expected, the Middle-Class Scholarship Program for students at UC and CSU campuses would begin with partial funding in 2014-15. Here is a look at three levels of tuition discounts in 2017-18, when the program would be fully implemented. * Income up to $100,000: 40% discount * Income of $125,000: 25% discount * […]
Tuition breaks If approved as expected, the Middle-Class Scholarship Program for students at UC and CSU campuses would begin with partial funding in 2014-15. Here is a look at three levels of tuition discounts in 2017-18, when the program would be fully implemented. * Income up to $100,000: 40% discount * Income of $125,000: 25% […]
By Peter Fimrite Cuts in diesel emissions have drastically reduced the amount of pollutants in the air that cause global warming in California, potentially valuable information in the fight to save the world’s climate from a predicted catastrophe, a study by University of California and government researchers said Wednesday. The study found that regulations limiting emissions […]
By Kevin Fagan A college education in California is still a good bargain compared with the rest of the nation, but that advantage is rapidly eroding as tuition costs spiral upward and students have to take out more loans, according to a study released Monday. In 2000, one-third of the state’s freshmen at both private […]
By Matthai Kuruvila The class assignment San Francisco State University Professor Joe Tuman gave his communications students last week was straightforward: create a political campaign ad either for an imaginary black Republican congressional candidate out of the Central Valley or for someone real. Say, Tuman himself. Tuman, an Oakland mayoral candidate who lost to Jean […]
