Cal State East Bay News

High schools in the Mt. Diablo school district in Concord, Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek will be holding commencement exercises at the Sleep Train Pavilion beginning June 10.

A three-office California design firm that has made sustainability central to its projects, large and small, was chosen by the editors of the ENR regional publications as the Design Firm of the Year 2012.

The Mt. Diablo Unified School District will provide meals for children 18 and younger for no cost during the summer.

The middle class college experience goes like this: Your parents make too much money to qualify for financial aid, but they don't make enough to pay your tuition.

A mother of four who was laid off in 2008, Danielle Torno had planned on turning her life around next year with the help of a Cal State East Bay business degree.

CALIFORNIA'S universities' curriculum cutbacks and tuition hikes are having an effect that any freshman economics student could have predicted: More and more high school graduates are choosing to leave the state for college.

A mother of four who was laid off in 2008, Danielle Torno had planned on turning her life around next year with the help of a business degree from California State University, East Bay.

The announcement was made at the May 9 board of education meeting at which the school board approved hiring Cheryl Wozniak after an extensive search to replace principal Tery Susman, who is retiring in June.

A I work for the government, something I never thought would happen to this slightly-anarchistic old man.

Educators Amy Drolette and Kerry Mohnike have been appointed as the new assistant principals at Los Gatos and Saratoga high schools, respectively.

"I found out that I can take college classes in high school, so I will not have to take them in college," said Reshma Potluri.

A town hall to discuss maintaining affordable high education will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Cal State East Bay.

Hilbert MoralesEl ObservadorRecently, the newly installed SJSU President, Mohammed Qayoumi, informed the local community that academic standards had been raised.

A special committee of the California State University Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to approve a new plan that will freeze state-funded pay for new campus presidents but allow school foundations to raise funds to boost their salaries.

Times are financially difficult.A Institutional budgets are strained; tax dollars are unavailable for worthwhile causes.A State support for the California State University has been cut by almost $1 billion or 33% over the past four years.A Under these circumstances, you would think that an institution that relies on taxpayer funding would salute an ... (more)

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This week, in Clayton, a judge sentenced a Ballwin woman to multiple consecutive life prison terms for charges related to incest and sexual assault of her own infant daughter.

A Last month's column was about the construction of Chabot Dam andA Anthony Chabot , the "Water King" who created the Contra Costa Water Company.

California State University teachers voted overwhelmingly to authorize two-day rolling strikes at the system's 23 campuses in response to what their union calls needlessly drawn-out contract negotiations.

OAKLAND, Calif. _ The room where the killing began shows no signs of violence. The bloodstains have been carpeted over, and plaster covers the bullet holes.