1,100 California State University skilled trades workers launch 4-day strike across 22 campuses

The California State University system's partnership with OpenAI "to distribut[e] ChatGPT Edu licenses to more than half a million students and staff" reminds me of my own university education. In the mid-1980s, Apple donated a room full of the first Macintosh computers to Stanford's Meyer Library, where I would
Dance Studies Association Conference "Speculative Choreographies: Bodies, Economies, and Movement in a World in Flux"
23-25 October 2026
California State University, USA
Deadline: 10 February 2026
Further information: https://www.performing-arts.eu/de/news/newsstream/call-for-papers-conference-speculative-choreographies-dance-studies-association/
#dancestudies #danceresearch #choreography #performingarts #californiastateuniversity
Cal State Invited Tech Companies to Remake Learning With A.I.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/technology/cal-state-ai-amazon-openai.html
There's still time to register for this year's #CalOER conference. Held virtually from August 6-8, Cal OER focuses on #OER efforts and impact, broadly defined, across the state of #California and especially across the state’s three public higher education systems, the #CaliforniaCommunityColleges, #CaliforniaStateUniversity, and #UniversityOfCalifornia.
Registration is open through August 5 and is only $25: https://www.caloer.org/registration.
#US students enter seventh day of hunger strike for #Gaza
#CaliforniaStateUniversity students from several campuses have gone on a hunger strike in solidarity with #Palestinians at risk of famine in Gaza
from #MiddleEastEye #MEE
By Syma Mohammed
Published date: 12 May 2025 21:22 BST
More than 30 #California State University (CSU) students are on a hunger strike to protest against #Israel’s blockade of food and water going into Gaza, which has placed the enclave's population at "critical risk" of famine.
In a video released on Sunday, the students said that the hunger strike was growing across campuses: “It’s day seven of the CSU hunger strike for Gaza. We remain steadfast in our struggle for a free #Palestine..."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-students-enter-seventh-day-hunger-strike-gaza
#EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#StopGazaGenocide
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#USA #US #USPolitics #politics #Trump
#news #press @palestine
Sonoma State University: CSU announces landmark public-private initiative that will make it the nation’s first and largest AI-powered university system. “Today, the California State University (CSU), the largest and most diverse public four-year university in the country, announced a first-of-its-kind public-private initiative with some of the world’s leading tech companies, including […]
A thing that is conspicuously missing from this press release is any mention of consultation with faculty
California State University Announces Landmark Public-Private Initiative That Will Make It The Nation’s First and Largest AI-Powered University System
https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/news/Pages/CSU-AI-Powered-Initiative.aspx
@BikeWalkAlameda At California State University Monterey Bay some such streets are called bike boulevards too.
#CalState #CaliforniaStateUniversity #campus #infrastructure #BikeBoulevard #BicycleBoulevard #MontereyBay #CSUMB #MontereyCounty #ActiveTransport #bicycling #biking #cycling #college #university
Boeing University
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/boeing-university-how-the-california-state-university-became-complicit-in-palestinian-genocide/
#antimilitarism #Militaryindustrialcomplex #CSU #CaliforniaStateUniversity #LongBeach #Boeing #Raytheon #encampments #Studentprotests #educationworkers #solidarity #Palestine
Also Ban The Bomb