Students will have to wait at least another four weeks for dining services to return to lower campus. Officials expect the renovation of the Outpost restaurant, which is located next to the SSPA Building, to be finished within three weeks, but there is still no set opening date. Previously set[Read More…]
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Hiring freezes and lack of funds plague the CSU system
The California State University system recently implemented measures to prepare for state budget cuts, including deferment of university fees for Cal Grant recipients. The state suspended the grants to help offset its budget deficit, which is said to be approaching $42 billion. Cal State Long Beach students receiving Cal Grants[Read More…]
Building a ‘legacy’ through higher student fees
Promotion for the Beach Legacy Fund has begun online, and the full campaign will begin tomorrow. Students will vote on whether or not campus-based student fees should be increased from the current $43 per semester to $138 per semester effective fall 2010 to support Cal State Long Beach athletics. Voting[Read More…]
CSULB’s price set at a high value
Cal State Long Beach once again ranked among the nation’s 100 “Best Value Colleges for 2009” in the Princeton Review, and in the top 50 for public “Best Value Colleges.” Though it didn’t make the top 10, CSULB is the only university in the California State University system to be[Read More…]
Students to vote on future fee increase
Students will see fee increases in the coming years, and the Cal State Long Beach athletics department is working to pass another. The Student Fee Advisory Committee approved the request by the athletics department on Nov. 7 to send the Beach Legacy Fund proposal to referendum. The referendum will allow[Read More…]
Former CSULB president dies at age 94
Avid hunters and fishermen do not usually become university presidents, but Carl W. McIntosh could not deny what he was born to do. McIntosh became a university president almost by accident. He decided to take a job as a speech and debate teacher at the Southern Branch of the University[Read More…]
CSULB places 15th in moot court tournament
For many Cal State Long Beach students, extracurricular studies rarely include studying case law or participating in mock trials at local courthouses on the weekends. But for students in CSULB’s moot court program, it’s just another week. At the 2009 American Collegiate Moot Court Association’s national tournament, held Jan. 16[Read More…]
Hall of Science construction on holdup
A halt in state funding has forced Cal State Long Beach to stop construction on the new Hall of Science building, which is replacing Peterson Hall 3. Investors have stopped buying General Obligation Bonds from the state panel that oversees loans for public works because it has yet to produce[Read More…]
‘Financially-neediest’ may be safeguarded by grant deferments
In response to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposal to make cuts in Cal Grants, the California State University announced on Jan. 15 that it would defer CSU fee payments for the spring 2009 term for those students who won’t receive their Cal Grants on time. Cal Grants are a primary financial[Read More…]
CSULB ranked as having the fifth “biggest and best” college security network
Security Magazine ranked Cal State Long Beach as having the fifth most-extensive security system of the nation’s colleges and universities in its annual “Security 500” rankings. Bill Zalud, a Security Magazine editor, said the rankings are based on levels of spending on safety and staffing rather than crime levels. “It’s[Read More…]