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Nov 15, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Amy DiPierro |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Karen D'Souza |Laura Dux
News Brief Friday November 15, 2024 10:24 am A new lawsuit from current and former San Jose State volleyball players and others seeks to ban a transgender teammate from competing in upcoming matches, The Mercury News reported.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Karen D'Souza |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Laura Dux
News Brief Thursday November 14, 2024 8:04 pm UCLA was unprepared to respond when violence broke out at a pro-Palestinian encampment this past spring and did not adequately protect students, a consulting firm hired by the University of California said in an indepent review released Thursday.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Karen D'Souza |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Laura Dux
News Brief Thursday November 14, 2024 9:13 am Nationwide, 77 percent of schools either incorporated the 2024 election into their lessons, or offered other engagement activities, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The Center, which is part of the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education, surveyed some 1,500 school leaders across the country.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Karen D'Souza |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Laura Dux
News Brief Thursday November 14, 2024 9:18 am Amid sharply rising costs for the basics, student loan borrowers face tough choices. Roughly one-third of federal student loan borrowers say they’ve had to go without food or medicine to pay the bills, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “It’s clear that many borrowers are struggling with repayment,” said CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, CNBC reported.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
pcccourier.com | Laura Dux
Share: This article was written by Courier Editor-in-Chief Laura Dux and originally published in EdSource. When I decided to enroll in community college, my goal wasn’t to get a degree — I wanted a new job. I have my bachelor’s degree in acting and was a professional actor until the pandemic. At 25, I was happy with my life as an actor. My calendar was even booked out for the entire year, performing in theaters across the state of Washington.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Laura Dux
When I decided to enroll in community college, my goal wasn’t to get a degree — I wanted a new job. I have my bachelor’s degree in acting and was a professional actor until the pandemic. At 25, I was happy with my life as an actor. My calendar was even booked out for the entire year, performing in theaters across the state of Washington. A week before I was laid off from a theater contract, I saw a video of NPR host Korva Coleman reading the hourly headlines.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Laura Dux |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Emma Gallegos |Kelly Gonzales
News Brief Wednesday November 13, 2024 11:21 am A Nov. 7 report from the Legislative Analyst’s Office looking back at UC Merced’s first 20 years finds that the campus in several respects contrasts the rest of the University of California system. The report also tracks mixed progress toward improving the San Joaquin Valley region’s educational and economic outcomes. LAO found that the UC Merced student body differs from those of other UC campuses in several ways.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Laura Dux |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Emma Gallegos |Kelly Gonzales
News Brief Wednesday November 13, 2024 10:46 am John Pérez, the former chair of the University of California’s board of regents and an influential voice on such issues as eliminating the standardized testing requirement for admissions, announced Wednesday he is stepping down from the board after serving on it for a decade.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
edsource.org | Laura Dux |MIchael Burke |Michael Burke |Emma Gallegos |Kelly Gonzales
News Brief Wednesday November 13, 2024 9:56 am The second annual inventory of campus housing at California State University found that roughly 10,000 CSU students are either waitlisted for housing or have taken themselves off of waitlists since the system’s last housing report. Cal State has almost 4,000 students on campus housing waiting lists, according to an annual report dated Oct. 23.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
pcccourier.com | Laura Dux
Share: Vandalism that included racist messages was found inside the men’s locker room in the GM building on campus on Tuesday morning by faculty who teach in the building prior to classes starting. The language of the vandalism was disparaging towards Black people and homeless people but was “non-threatening,” according to PCC Spokesperson Alex Boekelheide. The locker room stayed open during cleaning and the vandalism was removed within an hour.
