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Focuses on California Governor Gray Davis and his views on higher education. Determination of the governor to make higher education a solution to the state's budget problem; Comments from the state's college teachers leaders in who Governor Davis confers with on higher education; Information on Davis.

Profiles Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the California State University System. Suggestion of year-round classes; Picketing and lack of support; How he keeps the campus presidents running well; Other academic proposals; Resistance; Career highlights. INSET: Charles B. Reed.

Reports on the failure of California to provide enough Cal Grant funds to eligible students. Impact posed to colleges of the decline in the number of recipients; Background on the funds; Details on the publicity efforts undertaken by state officials.

Reports on the dispute between the California State University System and the University of California over the plan of the state university for a doctoral program in education. Efforts to block the program; Promotion of the program; Concerns over the financial support for the program.

Focuses on the proposal of Richard C. Atkinson, president of the University of California System, to drop the use of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in the admission of college applicants. Criticism on the SAT; How academic leaders responded to Atkinson's proposal; Efforts of California to explore ways to increase minority enrollment in the state.

Reports on a policy at California State University in Long Beach, California, to require students who need remedial help to complete those courses by the end of their sophomore year or leave the school. What the college is doing to reduce the number of freshmen who need remediation; The suggestion that students who need remediation should attend two-year colleges.

Examines the planned changes to the California State University system. Plan titled `Cornerstones,' approved by the California State University Board of Trustees; Goals of the plan which faculty members do not agree with; Tenets of the plan. INSET: California State University's `Cornerstones' Plan.

Presents brief articles pertaining to higher education in the United States as of January 22, 1999. Retirement plans of John W. Ryan, chancellor of the State University of New York; Ruling stating that the University of California must allow student-government organizations to spend student fees on lobbying efforts; Vote by the trustees of the City University of New York on ending remedial education; More.

Describes how federal and state crackdowns on casinos in California could negatively affect the revenues being earned by some Indian tribes and the schools and colleges benefitting from those earnings. How the revenues from casinos on Indian reservations have lifted some tribes out of poverty; The use of Illegal video slot machines in these casinos; Negotiations between Indian tribes and Governor Pete Wilson specifying the legalities of gambling in California.

Reports on the decision of the governing boards of the University of California and California State University systems to increase tuition fees by fall 2003. State budget cuts faced by the universities; Details of the fee proposals from the institutions; Comments from college administrators on the tuition increases; Accusations of California Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante against university officials.

Discusses the program of the University of California that automatically admits the top four percent of high-school graduating class in the state. Benefits of the program to Hispanic students and applicants from rural schools; Significance of the program in promoting racial diversity in schools.

Focuses on the proposed admissions process at the University of California, to replace its two-tier selection procedure. Details of the proposed admission process for all applicants; Amount allocated for the proposed comprehensive-admissions policy; Possible motives for coming up with the proposed admissions process.

Discusses the problems associated with the Cal Grant Program, an aid for community college students in California for 2001 to 2002. Application for the grant; Verification of student grades; Lack of sufficient funds.

Focuses on the failure of Cal Grants, a student aid program in California, to provide scholarship to students. Number of students who applied for the program; Budget of the program; Application requirements of the program.

Reports that officials of the University of California delayed their dual admissions plan for minority students due to lack of funds. Approval of the university's Board of Regents on the dual-admissions plan; Financial source of the dual admissions plan; Family income of students under the dual admissions plan.

Focuses on the ballot referendum proposed by Ward Connerly that would prevent the state of California and public colleges to collect information on race, ethnicity or national origin of a person. Votes needed to include the proposal on the March 2002 ballot; Explanations from Connerly; Opposition of university officials.

Reports on the plan of the University of California Board of Regents to overturn a policy enacted in 1995 that bars the use of affirmative action in university admissions. Admission of minority students at the university in 2000; Amount allotted by the university for its outreach program; Argument against the overturning of the policy.

Reports on a proposal by the University of California in Berkeley to extend offers of admission to students in top 12.5 percent of every high-school graduating class. Aim of the move; Provisions of the admission proposal; Significance of the plan's focus on minority students.

Presents several news briefs related to higher education. Pact reached by the University of California and California State University with California Governor Gray Davis involving funding; Vote on college bond issue in North Carolina; Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Jane Swift's decision to quit teaching at Suffolk University.

Reports on the increase in minority applicants admitted on University of California campuses since 1997, the last year for affirmative action. Comparison the actual number and the percentage rate in 1999; Enrolment of black and Hispanic students.

Presents news briefs pertaining to United States universities and colleges. Court ruling in favor of five Wyoming community colleges in their lawsuit against the Wyoming Community College Commission; Detail of the lawsuit; Agreement over the issue of racial bias in teacher testing in Alabama; The 1981 case filed by black students and Alabama State University against the state; Efforts by Florida legislators to rally support for two state universities to establish law schools; Increase in appropriations for California public colleges.

Presents state higher education-related news for June 4, 1999. Appointment of Marshall Drummond, former president of Eastern Washington University, as chancellor of the Los Angeles (California) Community College District; Lawsuits charging discrimination and perpetuation of racial segregation at Texas Southern University; A panel's defense of affirmative action in higher education.

Reports on United States educational news briefs as of May 21, 1999. Washington State Colleges to have say in determining tuition levels at public colleges; The delay in the implementation of Indiana's community college system; The creation in the California State University System of an Internet-based academic program to allow elementary school teachers working with emergency credentials to obtain full certification in 18 months.

Mentions higher education-related decisions in individual states, as of April 23, 1999. Alabama referendum on use of lottery funds for scholarships and other education programs; The Colorado Commission on Higher Education's determination that public colleges have not developed adequate diversity plans; Establishment of a community service requirement for students at California institutions; Connecticut ruling on historic preservation of college buildings.

Presents two news briefs pertaining to higher education in the United States as of March 26, 1999. Approval of a plan by the California State University Board of Trustees that requires the campus system to focus on improving the quality of academic programs; Decrease in the number of black applicants to the University of Washington Law School.

Discusses four articles dealing with legal rulings in United States federal appeals courts as of March 1999. Rejection of a claim by a group of University of Oregon students that their constitutional rights were violated by the school; Rejection of a claim against the University of California at Davis medical school for wrongful dismissal of a student; Others.

Reports that students rallied to support affirmative-action programs at various universities in 1998. Low turnout for the event titled `National Days of Action to Defend Affirmative Action'; Largest rally held at the University of California at Berkeley; Comments from Bob Jensen, professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reports athletic notes from United States colleges and universities. Unanimous vote by presidents of the New England Small College Athletic Conference to allow its championship teams, other than football, to participate in postseason play; Arrest of University of New Mexico football player, Kawika Ordenstein, for attempted murder; Additional penalties for the University of California at Los Angeles from the National Collegiate Athletic Association for infractions in its men's basketball program.

States that a state appeals court is reinstating an award for damages to two former professors of the University of California; The allegations against the institution of cheating the professors out of their patent royalties for magnetic-resonance-imaging technology; Details of the case.

Reports that a mistrial was declared in the November 1997 case of a former student at the University of California at Irvine accused of sending about 60 e-mail messages threatening to kill Asian-American students and staff members. First federal prosecution of an alleged hate crime on the Internet; Inability of jurors to reach a unanimous verdict on Richard Machado; His testimony that the message was a joke.

Covers the measure taken by a California federal judge in voiding most of Proposition 187. The proposition that prohibited illegal aliens from attending public colleges or receiving many other public benefits; The judge's decision that the proposition was unconstitutional; Details of the ruling; Governor Pete Wilson's criticism of the ruling.

Offers education news briefs. Alumnus which sued the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, charging that university officials had circumvented Proposition 209, a statewide ban on racial and gender preferences; Ruling that the University of Cincinnati must follow Ohio's competitive-bidding laws for a conference center under construction; Legal case over Idaho State University giving college credit for church-sponsored religion classes.

Reports that Stanford University has prohibited its marching band from appearing at football games against Notre Dame until the year 2000. Reasons for the punishment; Apologies from college officials and members of the marching band.

Reports that California governor Pete Wilson has vetoed a measure which would have guaranteed a minimum level of spending on the state's two university systems. Amount that state spending for the University of California has dropped since 1996; Reactions from Cruz M. Bustamante to the veto.

Reports that Charles B. Reed, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, was named chancellor of the 22-campus California State University System in the first week of October 1997. Reed to take the position March 1, 1998; Reed's experience as chancellor in Florida; Reed's responsibilities in California.

Reports that the federal government has sued the California State University System on charges that its early-retirement program practices age discrimination by forcing some professors to stop teaching when they turn 70. When the program was established; The details of the program; How many are affected by the retirement law; How the lawsuit will benefit professors already affected by the law.

Reports that a California judge has ruled that California State University at Northridge was justified in removing partisan political material that a student placed on the university's World Wide Web site. The university's policies on the use of campus computer networks; Student Christopher Landers' suing the university for violating his right to free expression.

Reports that a panel at the University of California has recommended that the university system eliminate the use of SAT scores to try to increase the enrollment of minority students. The reaction by state and university officials; Further explanation behind the recommendation by the Latino Eligibility Task Force.

Reports on a lawsuit by labor unions in California and Alabama state funds going to a private university. Details of a lawsuit filed by a coalition of labor unions in California in an effort to stop a merger between hospitals owned by Stanford and the University of California at San Francisco; How Alabama State University was routing state funds to Selma University to help the Baptist-affiliated institution recover from financial trouble.

Reports that the Board of Trustees of City College of San Francisco has lifted its ban on military recruiting on the campus. Why the board feared the loss of federal student aid if they did not lift the ban; How the college had banned recruiting in relation to the military's discrimination against homosexuals; The kinds of funds that the college would have lost if it had not lifted the ban.

Reports on a variety of stories from across the United States related to higher education. The chancellor of the University of Texas System deciding not to finance a political-action committee; None of the black applicants to the University of California at San Diego's School of Medicine being accepted; The Idaho State Board of Education denying a grant for a project on gay history; A growth of college-savings plans among middle-income families.