Cal State

CSU trustees plan to vote in September on annual 6% tuition increases.

After several high-profile sexual harassment cases, Cal State needs more training, staff and outreach to students and employees, an outside firm concludes.

A new analysis shows that the California State University system doesn’t make or receive enough money to cover its costs, even with state support. The report and lawmakers urge the system to increase tuition, but even that might not be enough.

Decrease largely due to record losses in transfers from community colleges.

A last-minute bill would force Cal State to give non-faculty staff raises, costing the system almost $900 million over ten years, money the system says it doesn’t have. Cal State may cut programs and raise tuition if it doesn’t get enough state money.

The way the Cal State system presents graduation rates obscures how the system is failing its Black students.

The Cal State system pointed out this week that current plans to expand the Cal Grant, California’s chief financial aid tool for students, would leave out more middle-class students in the future.

New study concludes that the nation’s largest university system underpays non-faculty staff

Cal State joined the University of California in ending its use of an admissions test for freshmen. Now the system is creating a new set of eligibility criteria, the first change since 1965.

Cal Fire has begun hiring back some of its seasonal firefighting force as wildfire risk continues to increase. Also, a North State library tries to make the experience of being incarcerated less harmful for families by having inmates read books over video to their kids, and SAT and ACT standardized tests are officially being dropped from California State University admissions.