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New Zealand universities shed "non-core" courses Thursday, April 10, 2008 :The University of Canterbury (UC) and Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) will announce decisions on course-cutting during the coming mid-term break....
Posted: Thu, Apr 10, 2008 8:15am PDT
DR. NEMESIO PRUDENTE, EDUCATOR AND ACTIVIST With profound sorrow, we in the Alliance Philippines (AJLPP) and the First Quarter Storm Network (FQSN)) in the United States condole with the family and friends of our dear comrade and fellow activist “Doc” Nemesio Prudente who recently passed away at the ripe age of 81 in the Philippines.
Doc Prudente is an ardent nationalist. While he was the president of the Philippine College of Commerce (PCC), the campus became the bastion of nationalism and one of the cradle of the renowned First Quar...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 7:00pm PDT
New DQU Leadership Emerges To Unite the Eagle and the Condor Steve Jerome-Wyatt reports on the Planting of the Corn ceremony and formation of an interim board of trustees held at DQU University on Sunday, April 6. "Now, at long last, we pray that all of the darkness and division of the past has been stripped away from the Great Iridescent Dream known as DQ University," he says....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 8:37am PDT
New DQU Leadership Emerges To Unite the Eagle and the Condor Steve Jerome-Wyatt reports on the Planting of the Corn ceremony and formation of an interim board of trustees held at DQU University on Sunday, April 6. "Now, at long last, we pray that all of the darkness and division of the past has been stripped away from the Great Iridescent Dream known as DQ University," he says....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 8:20am PDT
California teachers protest budget cuts Wednesday, April 9, 2008 :Some 200 teachers, parents and children marched outside Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, Californiain southern Orange County, between Los Angeles and San Diegoon March 31, to protest a proposed $19.3 million in cuts to the Saddleback Valley Unified School District....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 7:13am PDT
Tribal Representatives Meet with UC Berkeley Chancellor Regarding NAGPRA Tribal Representatives Meet with UC Berkeley Chancellor to Discuss Problems Associated with the University’s Compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and to Initiate Dispute Resolution Strategies...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 10:28pm PDT
Destroying Public Education in America Privatization schemes to destroy public education....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 4:02am PDT
D. Q. UNIVERSITY POW WOW AND PLANITING OF THE CORN CEREMONY A GREAT SUCCESS!!! The D. Q. University Pow Wow and Corn Ceremony went on as planned and as expected, it was a great success, thank you veru much for all your prayers and peaceful wishes....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 5:39pm PDT
Urgent Call to Pow Wow at D. Q. University April 6, 2008, 10 AM Inviting all people to come to celebrate the Season of the Planting of the Corn, TLAKAXIPEUALIZTLI
and to Pow Wow with the community and the students in a Community Meeting to take nominations for the new Board of Trustees, Sunday, April 6, 2008, is the last day to submit names for a seat on the board. We also want to bring to light and inform the community about all the events that have been taking place at D. Q. U., and discuss suggestions and proposals for the best next step forward. We...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 12:13am PDT
Encore_CSUHayward 10 of 10 UCs bear a city/county name. 17 of 23 CSUs bear a city/county name. CSU in Hayward
should bear 'HAYWARD' as its name as it did for many, many years. encore_csuhayward!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 8:00pm PDT
UCSF, AFSCME action March 3 AFSCME workers rallied in front of the UCSF medical center on March 3rd....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 1:18pm PDT
One of a kind Town Hall meeting held at SF State University - BVHP takes a stand on issues At one time the Colleges and Universities were the hubs where issues were discussed and policies challenged, brought out in the open to bring about real change. Windows long closed were opened and doors broken down to let in the fresh air. In the early 1960s - San Francisco State University led the movement and the Nation listened. Today, there is some awakening and momentum in that direction. Not as powerful a message sent 40 plus years ago - but, good enough to start a MOVEMENT and bring ab...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 9:58am PDT
Local high students and activists speak out against Lunardi's Supermarket foul policy Contact:
Shani Campbell
Phone: (925) 819-6752
Email: Shani@EastBayAnimalAdvocates.org...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 9:22am PDT
D.Q. Pow Wow and Community Meeting April 6, 2008 10am to 6pm A REMINDER TO PLEASE ATTEND THE COMMUNITY MEETING AND POW WOW AT DQ AND A COPY OF LETTER SENT TO THE NCAI....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 10:01pm PDT
IN HONOR OF DR. NEMESIO PRUDENTE My family and I express sincere condolences to the family of Dr. Nemesio Prudente. We grieve his passing away. At the same time, we accept his well-deserved rest. We know that he has gone to a place of glory where he joins the patriots and heroes of the motherland. We honor him for his many achievements. We celebrate these as various speakers recount them.
He was an outstanding educator. He rose to the position of president of the Philippine College of Commerce and then the Polytechnic Un...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 11:33am PDT
An indictment of the profit system High school drop-out rate in major US cities at nearly 50 percent Thursday, April 3, 2008 :A report released Tuesday by an educational advocacy group founded by retired general and former Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell finds that almost half of all public high school students in the US’ fifty largest cities fail to graduate. The report states that only 52 percent of public high school students in these cities graduate after four years, while the national average is 70 percent....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 8:32am PDT
Yes on Proposition A--Every Child Deserves a Great Teacher Thursday, April 3, 2008 : It’s no surprise to anyone that California’s school funding formulas are seriously flawed – our state is 46th in the nation in per student funding, and if the Governor gets his way, we’ll likely fall to dead last on the list. For decades, local communities have sought to take matters into their own hands by assessing additional property taxes to make ends meet and free their schools from the periodic bust cycles brought on by wildly fluctuating state appropriations f...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 8:23am PDT
Court hearing set Wednesday for First 3 Arrested at DQ University A court hearing is set at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Yolo County Courthouse for the first three 3 students arrested at DQ University in February, while 18 others jailed Monday await their appearances. Supporters should be at the courthouse no later than 7:30 a.m. A rally and press conference will be held at 8 a.m., according to Manuel Santana....
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 5:19pm PDT
Governor's budget results in layoff notices for thousands of California teachers Tuesday, April 1, 2008 :Close to 20,000 teachers, administrators and other workers in California’s public schools received layoff notices March 15 in the wake of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed 2008-2009 budget, which would cut around $4.8 billion from the state’s education spending. In launching this massive attack, the state government in Sacramento has made it clear that working people—teachers and others employed in public education, as well as parents and children who attend pu...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2008 10:52am PDT
Seventeen students and elders arrested in overwhelming police assault on DQ University At 9:45 a.m. this morning, a large force of Yolo County Sheriffs stormed the buildings at DQ University, battering their way into the Hallway of the large dorm -backing each other with guns drawn, and arrested 17 students, community supporters, and elders....
Posted: Mon, Mar 31, 2008 8:30pm PDT
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