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  • Hispanic’s American Dream

    (CSULA – UT) According to a new poll, Hispanics are eager to blend into American society while still maintaining the values of their own culture. This study reflects a growing development among one of our nation’s largest minority.Some o...
  • Jobs Bill

    (Washington - AP) Congress is moving rapidly just weeks before the start of the school year to speed billions of dollars in emergency education aid to states in hopes of reversing the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers. Some $10 billion in aid to s...
  • Obama Defends Education Initiative

    (CSULA – UT) On Thursday July 29, President Obama spoke before the 100th anniversary convention of the National Urban League in Washington to defend “Race to the Top,” a program that will reward states that make significant education reforms. The Pr...
  • 4 CSULA Students Awarded Gilman Scholarship

    (CSULA - PA) Cal State L.A. students Jazmine Jones, Amabel Robles and Tyren Thompson are each awarded a $5,000 Gilman Scholarship to further their studies in China, Spain, and South Korea, respectively, for one full academic year. Another CSULA stu...
  • Whitman "Wooing" Hispanics

    (Los Angeles - AP) Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman ratcheted up her courtship of Hispanic voters on Wednesday, debuting a campaign office in East Los Angeles and unveiling two more Spanish-language television ads. Whitman said her office w...
  • San Diego Coach Arrested

    (San Diego - AP) A San Diego volleyball coach has been arrested for investigation of molesting a 12-year-old girl at a volleyball camp sponsored by the University of San Diego. Xia Wei Li was arrested at his apartment Wednesday. He is set to be arraigned...
  • Prop 8 Ruled Unconstitutional

    (CSULA-UT) U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California's same-sex marriage ban Wednesday. Judge Walker’s conclusion states, “Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial o...
  • Running for Provost

    (CSULA - UT) With the race to fill the Provost seat down to the wire, the introduction of the two finalist, Dr. Ashish Vaidya and Dr. Paul Wong, took place on Monday, August 8th and Tuesday August 9th at the University Student Union where bo...
  • Running for Provost

    (CSULA - UT) With the race to fill the Provost seat down to the wire, the introduction of the two finalist, Dr. Ashish Vaidya and Dr. Paul Wong, took place on Monday, August 8th and Tuesday August 9th at the University Student Union where bo...
  • Cal Parole Changes

    (Sacramento - AP) California parole officials are beginning to test more intensive monitoring of parolees in four counties. Selected parole agents in Kern, Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Sonoma counties started supervising 48 parolees, dow...
  • Girls Stabbed

    (Littlerock - AP) Authorities say they have arrested a possible relative in the stabbing death of an 11-year-old girl in a desert community northeast of Los Angeles. Los Angeles County officials say they detained a teenage boy suspected of killing the ...
  • Doctor Attacked

    (Pasadena - AP) A 74-year-old man who stabbed his Glendale doctor during a medical exam and paralyzed him has been sentenced to life in prison. Mike Du Trieu of Monterey Park was given 15 years to life on Friday but on Monday a judge in Pasadena resenten...
  • Education Grants

    (Sacramento - AP) The California State Board of Education has approved common national academic standards in a move that should also bolster the state's chances of getting federal school reform dollars. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised ...
  • 10 CSULA Grad Students Chosen as Pre-Doctoral Scholars

    (CSULA – UT) On July 26, the names of the recipients of the 2010-11 Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholar award were released and ten of the 70 students selected from 23 CSU campuses. More than 200 CSU graduate students applied.Each of the 70 scholars wil...
  • Anti-Affirmative Action Law in California

    (San Francisco - AP) California's high court on Monday upheld the state's 14-year-old law barring preferential treatment of women and minorities in public school admissions, government hiring and contracting. In a 6-1 ruling, the state Supreme Court reje...
  • Prince Frederic Out of California Governor's Race

    (Sacramento, Calif. - AP) Less than six months after charging onto California's political scene in alligator-skin cowboy boots, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, a flamboyant Los Angeles socialite and eighth husband of Zsa Zsa Gabor, said Monday he was ending h...
  • CSU Applications for Spring

    (CSULA – PA) The California State University announced today that beginning August 1, all campuses will begin accepting applications for admission to the 2011 spring term. However, the enrollment of new students for that term is contingent upon the pass...
  • Immigrants Dream University

    (Washington - AP) They can't get citizenship or in-state tuition rates, so they're taking the next steps — the Capitol and White House steps, that is. A coalition of student immigrant advocacy groups in Massachusetts, Colorado and California on Wednesd...
  • Teenage Murder Trial

    (Ventura, Calif. - AP) Defense attorneys for a Southern California teen accused of murdering a gay classmate are seeking to have the judge in the case recuse himself before the trial begins. Lawyers for defendant Brandon McInerney claimed in a motion Mon...
  • Marijuana Raids

    (Fresno - AP) Federal and state agents have arrested nearly 100 people in a sweep of marijuana-growing operations that's netted more than $1.7 billion worth of pot in California's Sierra Nevada range. Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims say...