First, Barone notes that there are now more administrators in the Cal State University system than professors.
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For example, the California State University system recently announced it would not be able to matriculate an estimated 16, 000 students this spring because of costs.
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Obama addressed a crowd of about 15, 000, including more than 1, 200 graduates of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, one of the state university system's historically black schools.
The separate California State University system, which is facing its own financial nightmares, recently canceled some days of instruction in order to put professors and other staff members on furlough.
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Udacity also is working with the California state university system on challenges such as the large numbers of students who need to retake classes they have flunked, in order to meet graduation requirements.
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This Alliance has resulted in development of partnerships with the University of California at Berkeley and Davis, the California State University System, the regional California Community Colleges, and Midwest universities such as University of Oklahoma.
The California State University System declined to take the vast majority of transfer students this spring and has turned away about 20, 000 students who qualified for admission during each of the past three years, a spokesman said.
The governor hopes to use some of the stimulus money to make repairs in the state's university system.
"It is a big new idea in a system like ours, and it is part of the way the ground is shifting under us in higher education, " said Kevin Reilly, president of the University of Wisconsin System, which runs the state's 26 public-university campuses.
Now the next opponent for the upstart state school will be the system's flagship university, third-seeded Florida, on Friday night in the South Regional semifinal in Dallas.
The universities, including Arizona State, the University of Cincinnati and the University of Arkansas system, are hoping that students who pass the free MOOCs will then enroll in the schools and pay tuition to earn a degree.
That public system supported largely by the state and the state university systems, not so much in the North East, mostly in the Midwest and the West, flourished, grew dramatically in the post-World War II era.
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Lancaster University will then use a state-of-the-art statistical system to identify which cases are related to quickly identify potential clusters.
"We are starting to see a whole new type of planetary system, which is unlike anything in our own solar system, " said astronomer William Welsh at San Diego State University, who presented the Kepler findings Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
Psychologists at University of Chicago and Ohio State University have shown that people who are socially isolated develop changes in their immune system, which leads to a condition called chronic inflammation.
The entire class of 2016 will receive a Nokia Lumia 900 powered by the Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, to support the university's mission of providing state of the art technology tools to enhance the student experience and prepare students for success in a rapidly changing world.
"We are starting to see a whole new type of planetary system, which is unlike anything in our own solar system, " said William Welsh, an astronomer at San Diego State University, who presented the Kepler findings Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
Knewton started with test prep, then moved into a partnership to deliver remedial education with Pearson for Arizona State University, and is now serving K-12 students who are in the juvenile justice system.
Liberty Reserve, which conducted its transactions in dollars, euros and rubles, operates as an anonymous, no-questions-asked alternative to the global banking system, said Aditya Sood, a computer science doctoral candidate at Michigan State University who has studied the electronic currency.
Alberto Alonso Criollo, a political scientist at the local Vasconcelos University, says the old patronage system still works fairly smoothly in a place where the state government is one of the few sources of jobs and money.
Like all other schools in the University of North Carolina system, including the flagship at Chapel Hill, NCCU has seen its state funding cut significantly.
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Christian converts, most of whom are born as dalits at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, often hide their new faith for fear of losing their rights to state jobs and university places kept for the lower castes.
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