Cal State Maritime Academy News

As demand grows to attend California State University, campuses will slash enrollment by about 40,000 students -- closing the door to some freshmen and transferring community college students next fall, Chancellor Charles B. Reed said Tuesday.

This Thursday, November 9th, 2009, you have another opportunity to share your viewpoints and experience at a California Maritime Academy -sponsored Learn and Serve America town hall meeting being held in Vallejo .

To protest the ever-increasing cost of higher education, California Maritime Academy students Tuesday held a unique bake sale -- cupcakes cost $30,000 each, a Rice Krispies treat went for $75,000 and an entire cake cost a whopping $100 million.

For California Maritime Academy and other colleges and universities, tuition hikes, unpaid furloughs and fewer class offerings have become a way of life.

Student applications continue to pour into the California State University system for the 2010 fall semester.

California Maritime Academy students on Wednesday protested ever-increasing costs and drummed up support for a proposed state bill that could ease their pain.

A dinner will be held Saturday at the Mare Island Museum to honor local sea services and raise money for the Naval Sea Cadet youth project.

The social needs in Vallejo are many, but many are willing to step up and help, including a relatively new group on the scene -- California Maritime Academy students.

Vallejo's community organizations have a chance to take new funding opportunities into their own hands with two upcoming town hall-style community meetings.

Though the 2010 fall semester is nearly a year away, California State University students are scrambling now to get signed up for classes, sending early enrollment rates soaring.

Crowley awarded three Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships to California Maritime Academy students Alesi Alapa, Todd Michel and Sean Sabeh during the Containerization and Intermodal Institute's Connie Awards presentation in Long Beach, Calif.

Crowley awarded three Thomas B. Crowley Sr. Memorial Scholarships to California Maritime Academy students Alesi Alapa, Todd Michel and Sean Sabeh during the Containerization and Intermodal Institute's Connie Awards presentation in Long Beach, Calif.

California Maritime Academy's new 132-bed residence hall will be named after alumnus Robert McAllister, and his late wife Edith, the school has announced.

California Maritime Academy student Katherine Brookshier of Benicia has overcome adversity en route to a prized achievement award.

What gives Americans the freedom of expression, the ability to go to any church they want, and the right to cast votes without paying taxes? With a little help from California Maritime Academy students, about 50 Grace Patterson Elementary fifth-graders Friday learned those freedoms and rights are part of the U.S. Constitution.

5 to 7 p.m., silent/live auction . 8 p.m., comedy production, "Late Nite Catechism." Proceeds to go to technology upgrades and scholarships.

As California Maritime Academy students returned this week for the first day of classes, they faced higher tuitions and fewer instruction days because of faculty furloughs and budget cuts.

Superior Court Judge Peter Busch denied a preliminary injunction that would have blocked the fee increase at the nine campuses in the 23-school system that haven't already collected it.

A mariner was at the helm of a powerful, 100-foot-long boat one morning last week, zipping along at 20 knots on a routine trip up San Francisco Bay just past Angel Island, when without warning a huge storm struck.

Starlight Marine Services has implemented a successful training program in the Tractor Tug Simulator at the California Maritime Academy.