SAN DIEGO–The San Diego Unified Board of Education have created a task force with representatives from the San Diego District Attorney’s Office, the City of San Diego Attorney, the San Diego Police Department, and various governmental and community organizations, to improve interagency collaboration for the protection of children from sexual harassment and abuse. San Diego […]

(Newswise)–The California State University will honor 23 students, one from each campus, who have been selected to receive the 2019 Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. The students will be recognized during the first day of the upcoming Board of Trustees meeting to be held September 24 and 25 at the CSU Office of the Chancellor. The […]

SAN DIEGO–Grant funding at San Diego State University (SDSU) rose 10 percent in 2018-19, reaching $148.5 million—the second-highest amount in university history.  The increase demonstrates the university’s continued excellence in achieving support for its research activities, notably in a year that saw a government shutdown and an unpredictable federal budget environment. Some 312 investigators received […]

SAN DIEGO–More than 100,000 students and some 13,000 teachers and support staff members returned to the San Diego Unified School District Monday morning to kick off the new school year. Superintendent Cindy Marten, School Board President Dr. Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, and School Board Vice President Dr. John Lee Evans welcomed students back at the School of […]

SAN MARCOS–Cal State San Marcos has received a grant of almost $2 million from the National Science Foundation to conduct research that will help increase the number of students graduating with college degrees in STEM disciplines.  The grant of $1.9 million covers five years and was awarded to a group of researchers headed by Dr. […]

LA JOLLA–A growing number of California residents continue to gain access to the University of California San Diego. This year, out of 118,372 applications received, the campus admitted 32,016 first-year and 10,829 transfer students for fall 2019. There was a 7% increase among admitted California residents from the previous year, with more than one-third of […]

LA JOLLA–The University of California San Diego concludes the region’s college graduation celebrations with today’s All Campus Commencement, and ceremonies for its undergraduate colleges, Graduate Division and professional schools happening throughout the weekend. As UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla welcomed graduates and guests at commencement this morning, he noted, “From the birth of […]