Cal State Maritime Academy News

A former resident is suing the city for $1 million, saying police repeatedly harassed him in a series of "unwarranted" arrests and searches - none of which led to a conviction.

The San Francisco Bar Pilots Association is renewing and strengthening its long-standing support for The California Maritime Academy through a combination of scholarships and support for enhanced recruitment efforts totaling over $75,000 over the next five years.

With the $584 million reduction in CSU's 2009-2010 budget, the California State university system is reducing overall student enrollment.

It will be a nervous month or so for Travis Riley of Lafayette as he awaits word on whether he is accepted into California Maritime Academy's popular maritime transportation program.

The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology's board of trustees have elected interim school president Matt Branam the college's new full-time president.

Cal Maritime forward Michael Weimer was chosen as the California Pacific Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Week.

The Keelhaulers are hoisting the Kennedy Cup after a sterling day on the water Sunday to take the 2009 Offshore National Championship in Annapolis, Md.

A moment of silence for the dead and wounded from the recent Fort Hood massacre set a somber tone for the Veterans Day event at Vallejo's Empress Theatre Wednesday evening.

As demand grows to attend California State University, campuses will slash enrollment by about 40,000 students -- closing the door to some freshmen and transferring community college students next fall, Chancellor Charles B. Reed said Tuesday.

This Thursday, November 9th, 2009, you have another opportunity to share your viewpoints and experience at a California Maritime Academy -sponsored Learn and Serve America town hall meeting being held in Vallejo .

To protest the ever-increasing cost of higher education, California Maritime Academy students Tuesday held a unique bake sale -- cupcakes cost $30,000 each, a Rice Krispies treat went for $75,000 and an entire cake cost a whopping $100 million.

For California Maritime Academy and other colleges and universities, tuition hikes, unpaid furloughs and fewer class offerings have become a way of life.

Student applications continue to pour into the California State University system for the 2010 fall semester.

California Maritime Academy students on Wednesday protested ever-increasing costs and drummed up support for a proposed state bill that could ease their pain.

A dinner will be held Saturday at the Mare Island Museum to honor local sea services and raise money for the Naval Sea Cadet youth project.

The social needs in Vallejo are many, but many are willing to step up and help, including a relatively new group on the scene -- California Maritime Academy students.

Vallejo's community organizations have a chance to take new funding opportunities into their own hands with two upcoming town hall-style community meetings.

Though the 2010 fall semester is nearly a year away, California State University students are scrambling now to get signed up for classes, sending early enrollment rates soaring.

Crowley awarded three Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships to California Maritime Academy students Alesi Alapa, Todd Michel and Sean Sabeh during the Containerization and Intermodal Institute's Connie Awards presentation in Long Beach, Calif.

Crowley awarded three Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships to California Maritime Academy students Alesi Alapa, Todd Michel and Sean Sabeh during the Containerization and Intermodal Institute's Connie Awards presentation in Long Beach, Calif.