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• California two-year colleges may soon offer bargain bachelor's degrees
• IT'S TIME TO BE PRACTICAL ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM
• Campuses arming officers as parents, others seek assurances
• China says its colleges must champion core socialist values

California two-year colleges may soon offer bargain bachelor's degrees Posted: 20 Jan 2015 04:18 PM PST California's community colleges hope to begin offering bachelor's degrees for about $2,500 a year under a pilot program that won preliminary approval on Tuesday. The program aimed at reducing the cost of higher education in the most populous U.S. state got initial approval from the California Community Colleges Board of Governors at a meeting in the state capital of Sacramento. "These colleges are embarking on a new mission ... that will expand opportunities in public higher education," California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice W. Harris said. The course offerings must still be vetted by officials at the California State University and University of California systems before coming back to the community college board in March.

IT'S TIME TO BE PRACTICAL ABOUT MULTICULTURALISM Posted: 20 Jan 2015 03:01 PM PST Following the murders in Paris at the Charlie Hebdo magazine and the kosher supermarket, one could hear the comforting sound of tens of thousands of footsteps marching in enraged opposition to the terrorists. This old struggle came up anew this week when a well-meaning Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke in London about Islamic "no-go" zones in England where the British police dare not go. In fact, he was slightly wrong on the "no-go" thing, which is more characteristic of France's huge "grands ensembles," reminiscent of Chicago's massive, and now demolished, public housing. He should have spoken about how radical, anti-British Muslims are working to take over the public schools in Birmingham, since the "Trojan Horse" scandal is in the London papers every day, and about how Pakistani men in Rotherham had lured away 1,400 teenaged English girls, "groomed" them with liquor and drugs, and turned them into prostitutes.

Campuses arming officers as parents, others seek assurances Posted: 20 Jan 2015 07:21 AM PST Nearly all campus police officers at public universities now carry guns, pepper spray and other weapons, according to a new Justice Department report, and experts say more private schools are looking to arm police.

China says its colleges must champion core socialist values Posted: 19 Jan 2015 09:33 PM PST BEIJING (AP) — China's leadership has issued guidelines requiring universities to strengthen ideological controls in classrooms and telling professors to champion Marxism, traditional culture and socialist core values.

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