Cal State

Workers were left to clear the debris of the pro-Palestinian encampment at California State University Los Angeles on Monday, after police moved in at the urging of college administrators.

California State University has announced that it will keep all 23 campuses closed for the upcoming spring semester. According to a letter written by a university official, Cal State students will likely be asked to continue their courses online until a coronavirus vaccine is widely available.

Under a recently adopted policy, undergraduate students at California State University will be required to take an ethnic studies or social justice course to complete their degree. Approximately 430,000 undergraduate students enrolled in the California State University system will be impacted by the new policy.

A recent poll revealed that a majority of Princeton University students would take a “gap year” if Princeton’s campus did not reopen for the fall semester. A majority of college students polled earlier this spring said that the quality of their education dropped significantly when classes moved online in March at the outset of the Chinese virus pandemic.

Cal State announced this week that it plans to keep classes online for the fall semester over fears of a second outbreak of the Chinese virus. Cal State is the first large university system in the United States to announce that its campus will remain closed for the fall semester. Its 23 campuses and 500,000 students will not be back on campus in 2020.

Cal State Fullerton announced this week that fall classes will begin online as part of ongoing Chinese virus mitigation efforts. Cal State Fullerton is one of the first institutions to move their courses online for the upcoming fall semester.

California State University-Fullerton is facing scrutiny this week over an email that encouraged alumni to include the university as a benefactor of their estate. Several recipients of the email have called the email “tone deaf” in light of the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Professors at California State University, Chico (CSU, Chico) are accusing the school’s College Republicans student group of harboring “white supremacist” views and subjecting students to “racist provocation” due to their support of President Donald Trump, adding that just because conservative students have free speech rights “does not in any way mean we have to sit by, silently.” The professors’ statement arrives roughly two weeks after the school’s College Republicans chapter president was assaulted on campus.

Students at California State University Long Beach complained about the lack of locks on classroom doors after a shooting scare that occurred on campus on Monday afternoon.

California State University, Los Angeles Professor Carlos Tejeda claims that he was almost forced to cancel classes after he was “emotionally and physically triggered” by a pro-Trump “Build the Wall” display on campus. Tejeda called the display an “outright attack on the psyches and well-being of more than few students, faculty, and staff.”

Cal State San Bernardino (CSUSB) apologized to students for promoting employment opportunities with the United States Border Patrol at the school’s career center. In its apology email to students, CSUSB also offered “counseling and psychological services” to help with emotional “distress.”