Strawberries No. 1 crop but prices, output vary
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Dubroff: Creating CSU satellite campus makes sense for Santa Maria
Sometimes it only takes a single slide to make your point. So when Allan Hancock College President Kevin Walthers began his May 6 talk in Santa Maria, the first image was an eye-opener. It said “California’s Higher Education Desert” and 300 North Santa Barbara County leaders who attended the UCSB Economic Forecast Summit early that Read More →
GMOs, drought strategies may be ripe for rethinking
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Cal Poly hackathon trains entrepreneurs
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CSU agrees to faculty salary increases, averts strike
The California State University system and its faculty narrowly averted the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education, when the two sides announced an agreement April 8 for across-the-board raises over the next two years. If the CSU trustees and the California Faculty Association’s full membership approve the contract extension, all 26,000 faculty Read More →
Cal Poly students build and launch tiny satellites
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Minimum wage hike a moral issue
By Steven Mintz California is frequently a bellwether state with respect to workplace ethics issues. Exhibit A is the recently adopted law that mandates a minimum wage of $15 by the end of 2022. Under a deal reached with state lawmakers on April 4, the state minimum wage will rise to $10.50 on Jan. 1, Read More →
