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The Study of Youth

For-Profit Colleges: Predators in the Ivory Tower

State Cuts Cal Grant Funding for Many For-Profit Schools

It took a destructive recession and a budget deficit even MC Hammer finds ridiculous, but California has slowed down the flow of tax-payer money to for-profit colleges. Yesterday, the California Student Aid Commission announced a sharp decrease in the number of schools eligible for Cal Grants: fo ... More >>

Occupy Refuses to Leave UC Berkeley Farm, University Officials to "Take Action"

University officials gave Berkeley's latest crop of protesters until Saturday to vacate the vacant tract of land the group had occupied last month, which they've used as an urban farm.On Friday, Berkeley officials issued a stern warning to the Occupy the Farm, demanding the group leave the 10-acre A ... More >>

"The Five-Year Engagement": Trivial Fare Offers Flashes of Honesty

UC Berkeley Zeta Phi Beta Pledge Accuses Sorority Sisters of Beating, Hazing Her

​A former UC Berkeley student and Zeta Phi Beta pledge quickly discovered that her sorority dues just weren't paying off. Britteny Starling is suing her sorority sisters for allegedly hazing her so badly she was forced to drop out of school and take medical leave. According to a lawsuit filed in O ... More >>

Community College Students Discouraged From Repeating Classes

Maybe now the third time will be the charm ​The California Community Colleges Board of Governors has decided to limit the number of times a student can retake a class on the state's dime.Turns out, it is not unusual for students to take one class six or seven times for a variety of reasons. In 200 ... More >>

California Culinary Academy Settles Lawsuit With Students for Millions

UC Regents Challenged: Women Demand Student Rep Jesse Cheng Be Removed

At the center of women's ire​Last week, the UC Irvine Office of Student Conduct ruled that Jesse Cheng, the student rep on the UC Board of Regents, had engaged in "unwanted touching" of his ex-girlfriend, an offense that's classified as sexual battery.Cheng, who is set to graduate from UC Irvine i ... More >>

Wronging the Rights

Elite College Hoaxer Showdown: Stanford Vs. Harvard

​News this week of Adam Wheeler, the 23-year-old who lied his way into Harvard and almost into Yale, brought back fond memories of Azia Kim, the dorm-squatter who was discovered posing as a Stanford student two years ago. We have to ask: Who's the better college hoaxer? TV movie-ready back st ... More >>

The Poor News Bears

City College budget cuts complicate Hollywood ending for student bioengineers.

Stimulus Wreckage

Despite having been accused of deceptive business practices by the attorney general, former students, and ex-employees, Corinthian Colleges are getting millions in federal stimulus dollars.

Republican Senator Wades Into UCSF Financial Morass; Echoes Complaints of Fired Dean Profiled By SF Weekly

Dr. David KesslerOur paper's regular readers may recall a gem penned in April of last year by Ron Russell, in which he profiled Dr. David Kessler, the former dean of U.C. San Francisco Medical School ousted after years of complaining about "alleged financial malfeasance at the institution he was hir ... More >>

Survey: U.C. San Francisco Raked In $366 Million in Fiscal '08

Show your support with a shirt -- or, say, $366 millionThe best way to get rich: Be rich. A survey released this week by the Council for Aid to Education ranked the Top-20 fund-raising universities in the realm, and our local schools did us proud. Stanford and U.C. Berkeley bookended the list: The P ... More >>

Whistleblower

By most accounts, David Kessler's four years as UCSF's medical school dean were a rip-roaring success. So why was he fired?

Authorities Not Impressed By DA's Totally Bitchin' PC

Sausage party slow-jam

New College of Weirdness

The stories coming out of the school point to a common S.F. malady — leaders expect everyone to drink the Kool-Aid

Embattled New College President Resigns

LastNight: Feist at the Fillmore

Blood, sweat, tears and newsprint -- remembering Berkeley doctoral students Giulia Adesso, Benjamin Boussert and Jason Choy

Burnt Chefs

Former admissions representatives at CCA say they preyed on students’ dreams of becoming celebrity chefs and glossed over the painful economic realities of the industry

Free Trade (in Doctors)

If physicians really cared about our health, they'd drop their iron wall against immigrant doctors

Pink Power

This musical stage adaptation of the movie, like, totally rocks

No Administrator Left Behind

The University of California system is embroiled in a scandal over perks and compensation for some of its highest-paid employees. Are they worth it? Find out where you stand!

Student of Concern

Will we be more secure -- or just less competitive -- if the government forces hundreds of thousands of international science students to get export licenses simply to look through a microscope?

Learning to Compete

Executives involved in outsourcing U.S. jobs should also become involved in sponsoring CA schools

Common Cents

The Chronicle should stop the dubious "news stories" and openly rail against a sales tax hike that hurts its major advertisers -- and slaughters the poor

The Rush of Victory

Under coach George Rush, City College regularly wins national football titles. But is community college really the place for big-time sports?

Misplaced Priorities 101

Amid a drastic budget crisis, why is the California State University system spending $400 million on computers? And where is the money coming from?

Legal Precedent

A transgender Stanford grad and his colleague are set to open the first-ever law center for transgender issues

Missed Interpretation

Deaf students wonder why officials at UC Berkeley and UC Davis won't hear their plea for equal access to education

Divided Loyalties

Forced to choose between native ties and the American Dream, Filipinos like S.F. court clerk Rene Pascual are fighting for dual citizenship

Best Degree That Might Not Impress Prospective Employers

Tequila Ph.D. From Tommy's Mexican Restaurant

South to the Future

Harvard Students, Citing Record Endowment Revenue, Seek to Abolish Tuition Fees

Inside the Big Floop

Threatening Mount Zion means curtains for the clowns who have mismanaged the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger

Military Might

Stanford activists in fight against laws forcing campuses to accept recruiters

The Illusion of Roe V. Wade

While feminists loudly celebrate the 25th anniversary of legalized abortion, quiet changes in the medical landscape make the procedure less and less available

Three Hours on a Saturday Morning

UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?

Let's Make Appeal

UCSF-Stanford merger challenged directly in appellate court

Practice What You Teach

UCSF students wish the medical school would tend to their health

Giving Away the Hospital

University of California regents are set to vote next week on finalizing a merger of the UCSF Medical Center with Stanford University's health service. Supporters claim the merger -- a transfer of $380 million in public assets to the private sector -- is

UCSF's Mad Money

The Stanford-UCSF merger's tab -- including a "pro bono" review that cost $191,490 -- is running into the millions

Temperature Rising

The UCSF-Stanford merger goes under a (symbolic) gun

Pinstriped Medicine

How the UCSF-Stanford hospital merger foreshadows the new -- and sometimes frightening -- world of health care

Mulch

In Sickness and in Wealth

It's merge or be merged out for teaching hospitals like Stanford's and UCSF's

Slap Shots