Cal State Bakersfield News

DON BURNARD has been appointed center dean of DeVry University in Bakersfield. Formerly a teacher, principal and program coordinator with the Kern County Office of Education, Burnard comes to DeVry from Point Loma Nazarene University, where as director he opened the school's Bakersfield Regional Center.

For more information, including volunteer and student applications, go to www.csub.edu/computersforknowledge. Images: Cal State Bakersfield student, Garrett Akin, standing, helps Compton Junior High eighth graders and Computers For Knowledge students, Ana Valencia, right, and Jose Arana, center, Wednesday at Compton.

With the $584 million reduction in CSU's 2009-2010 budget, the California State university system is reducing overall student enrollment.

Local unemployment data have been a grudging source of hope these last several months.

THE MESS THAT IS STOCKDALE HIGHWAY: If you live in Bakersfield, I don't need to tell you what a mess Stockdale Highway has become with the long overdue repaving and widening.

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West Oakland's Lower Bottoms neighborhood is rough: In the past six months three people have been fatally shot within three blocks there.

Cal State Bakersfield is searching for the 2009-10 alumnus of the year. The school Alumni Association will honor a CSUB graduate who has made significant contributions to his or her profession, society and the university at the Alumni Hall of Fame gala Feb.

Cal State Bakersfield faculty, students and others will have to wait another month before President Horace Mitchell announces what will be cut next year because of severe budget woes.

Three law enforcement agencies in Kern County are undergoing changes at the top, adding to a trend that began two months ago at the Bakersfield Police Department.

In this economy, catching a play at a local theater would seem to be an extravagance for many.

When Carlos Lozano came to the United States from Mexico as a child in 1919, he struggled to learn English, he said in an autobiography.

Henry A. Barrios / The Californian From left, Katie Tate, Frank De Marco, Rosemary De Marco, Roseanne Brandon, and Patrick Brandon holding baby Noelle, pose for a picture at Rosemary's Family Creamery.

Paul Sabovich was having no luck finding a job after graduating from Cal State Bakersfield in June.

UCLA's lone returning starter, Nikola Dragovic, was suspended indefinitely before the Bruins' 75-64 win over visiting Cal State Bakersfield after turning himself in to UCLA Police Department and Hollywood Division detectives on felony assault charges.

JACK A. DOREMUS has joined Keller Williams Realty on Olive Drive as its Responsible Broker.

This article first appeared in the Kern Economic Journal, 2009 Third Quarter issue.

Sandy Ochoa knows firsthand school isn't what it used to be. She had no problem getting into Cal State Fullerton 20 years ago, but when she tried to go back to school last year, she couldn't get in.

Michael Fagans / The Californian The initial CAT scan of mummy from the CSUB "The Art of Death in Ancient Egypt" exhibit appears on the monitor at the Quest facilities on Monday night.

Before: nbc33tv From Egyptian ruins to an x-ray room in Bakersfield, California.