Fresno State's baseball team is having a big season. Last weekend, a Diamond 'Dog delivered one of the season's most memorable moments. The Bulldogs, champions of the Mountain West Conference, were playing Saturday in an NCAA tournament regional matchup in Palo Alto. Their foe: perennial college baseball power Stanford. In...
Here’s a Sneak Peek at MSNBC’s Town Hall With ‘Mayor Pete’
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews will moderate a live town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Monday at 4 p.m. at Fresno State. According to MSNBC, viewers can expect Buttigieg to face questions on the economy, impeachment, war and peace, and the historic nature of his candidacy as the first openly...
Here’s How to Grab Some Ears of Fresno State Sweet Corn
Get ready, sweet corn fans. It's almost here. Fresno State's annual sale of its insanely popular sweet corn will begin at 7 a.m. Friday, June 7 at Gibson Farm Market, located at 5368 N. Chestnut Ave Yellow corn will be sold at 50 cents per ear through the summer while...
Jensen’s Arm, Tatum’s Bat Carry Bulldogs Into NCAAs
The Fresno State Bulldogs are riding the strong right arm of junior pitcher Ryan Jensen and the hot bat of third baseman McCarthy Tatum into their first NCAA baseball tournament appearance since 2012. Fresno State earned the No. 3 seed in the Stanford regional after sweeping the Mountain West Conference...
Details Revealed for Buttigieg’s ‘Hardball’ Town Hall in Fresno
A nationally televised town hall with presidential candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-Indiana) will happen at Fresno State. The event, to be aired live as an episode of MSNBC's “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” is scheduled for June 3 at the Dennis & Cheryl Woods Theatre in the Speech Arts Building. Information...
Student Loans Are Coming Due, Graduates. Here’s How to Survive Them.
College graduation season has arrived. Along with the celebrations and the dreams of the bright future, there's a bitter pill of reality: Student loans are ready to come due. A student graduating with a bachelor's degree in the United States this year will shoulder an average of nearly $30,000 in...
Love of Teaching Powers Her Amazing Sprint to a Fresno Classroom
Kaylee Gutierrez is among the 19.3% of students who enter Fresno State as freshmen and get their diplomas four years later. But she did something else that had university officials jogging their memories. Gutierrez earned a multiple-subject teaching credential while posting a 4.0 grade-point average in those four years. Best...
Is Privatizing Bookstores the Smart Move for Community Colleges?
State Center Community College District officials say turning to a private company to run its bookstores will save students money, while adding to the district’s bottom line. District management wants to turn over operations to Follett Higher Education Group, a national firm based in Illinois. The board wasn't ready to...
Delays Over First-Responder Facility Irritate Local Law Enforcement
The patience of local law enforcement officials is wearing thin as they continue to wait for a new first-responder training facility to be built. Fresno City College's fire and police academies have served as the primary training facilities for Central Valley public safety agencies for years. Both have outgrown their...
FUSD's Surplus Food Used to Go to the Dump. Not Anymore.
Fresno Unified schools used to throw away millions of pounds of leftover food every year that students didn't eat. Now, much of that surplus is going to food pantries, homeless shelters, and other sites that feed the hungry across Fresno. The shift has been made through the efforts of Fresno...