Friday, March 5, 2010

California on the march

March on Everywhere! (Inside Higher Ed)
BERKELEY, CALIF. -- In an unprecedented day of national protest across all sectors of education, the epicenter proved to be this college town where the seeds of student activism were sown more than 40 years ago. (continued)
In a Day of Campus Protests, California Marchers Take to the Freeways (Chronicle of  Higher Ed)
Students and faculty members in California staged dozens of protests on Thursday, marching in major cities and attempting to blockade freeways in the broadest demonstration yet of anger against state budget cuts to the nation's largest public-university system. (continued)
California Students Protest Education Cuts (New York Times)
SACRAMENTO — Angered by increases in tuition and cuts in state financing, thousands of students, parents and faculty members protested across California on Thursday at colleges, universities and even elementary schools to plead for help with the state’s education crisis. (continued)

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