Students for Quality Education (SQE) ended their hunger strike after 10 consecutive days. According to a SQE press release, the 12 students ended their deliberate starvation after media coverage led to California lawmakers responding to their cause. The demands of the group were to create a five-year freeze on tuition increases, eliminate all housing and [...]

Some 100 college students at Santa Monica College protested outside of a Board of Trustees meeting regarding a plan by the college to raise prices for courses Tuesday night, according to the Los Angeles Times. Protesting students outside of the meeting room during a public comments session were interrupted when campus police attempted to disperse [...]

Activists protested the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, reported The Orange County Register. Around 200 people rallied in San Onofre State Beach near the plant to listen to several speakers, including two Japanese residents who lived through the Fukushima meltdown. Several anti-nuclear [...]

In an effort to draw attention to the tuition hikes that have been affecting public education institutions in California for the past few years, thousands rallied around the state Capitol in Sacramento to protest Monday. Representatives of all sectors of public education, primarily students, were organized by the California State Student Association (CSSA), the Student [...]

Students from We! Alternative Voices for an Alternative Future gathered Tuesday night to discuss the content of a letter that would be addressed to Cal State Fullerton’s new president, Mildred Garcia, Ed.D. Among the students’ concerns were rising student fees, increased administration salaries, free speech on campus and the legacy of prestige of the university. [...]

Approximately 10,000 people representing public higher education in California gathered around the state’s capitol in Sacramento March 5 to protest increases in tuition at the higher education levels. The increases have been affecting students for the past few years. Organized by the California State Student Association, the Student Senate of California Community Colleges, and the [...]

Cal State Fullerton student and Occupy protester Sam Aresheh, 24, had his arraignment pushed to March 29 on request from his lawyer Leanne Stogsdill. Aresheh was arrested Oct. 22, 2011, the first day of Occupy Orange County movement in Santa Ana after he and three others erected tents at the Civic Center. The protesters went [...]

Students will gather from colleges all across California Monday and march for higher education. The march will take place in Sacramento where protesters will meet in the morning and begin their march to the capitol building. Organizations representing all types of college systems are organizing the march to take a stand against the lack of [...]