California should prepare for increasing enrollment demand on its community colleges, which may need to serve an additional 200,000 students by 2019, the California Postsecondary Education Commission says. The 110-college system, which took an 8-percent cut in state support this year, will not be able to keep up with the demand without annual increases in state funds, it warned. "These are conservative projections," John Perez, the commission's chairman, said in a news release. "The problem could actually be worse."

Richard Herman, the embattled chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, delivered a remorseful apology to the university's Faculty Senate today over his role in the "clout" scandal, according to The News-Gazette, a local newspaper. Faculty members, who reportedly applauded after Mr. Herman's speech, postponed their scheduled vote on a resolution calling for his resignation and that of B. Joseph White, the university system's president.

The University of Michigan will investigate allegations by current and former players that its head football coach repeatedly broke NCAA rules governing practice time and off-season workouts, the Detroit Free Press reports. The university’s athletic director, Bill Martin, said on Sunday evening that an investigation would begin despite his belief that no rules were broken. The coach, Rich Rodriguez, has denied any wrongdoing.

Illinois legislators passed a vast public-works spending bill this summer that included $40-million for an extension campus of Chicago State University, reports the Chicago Tribune. However, the university hadn't requested the money, which was championed by a state senator from Chicago, and the interim president says he was unaware that he was opening a new campus until he read about it in a newspaper.

Kent State University professors will get cash bonuses this semester, after the university exceeded its goals in fund raising, research grants, and freshman retention, reports KentNewsNet, a student news outlet. Tenure-track faculty members will share in the pool of money; the amount has not been determined. The incentive program was proposed last year by the university's president, Lester A. Lefton.

U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis clarified her support for adjuncts after the American Federation of Teachers contacted her about remarks she made on NPR's Talk of the Nation  related to the working conditions of instructors outside the tenure track.

The University of Illinois has notified the staff of Global Campus, the ambitious stand-alone distance-learning program that it decided in May to phase out in favor of a version run by the system's three campuses, that they will not be reappointed, The News-Gazette, a newspaper in Champaign, Ill., reported. Twenty of the 32 employees were given six months' notice, and the remainder will be laid off in a year.

Originally envisioned as a separate corporation that would ultimately draw 70,000 students from all over the world, the project raised faculty concerns and was approved instead as an academic unit of the university.

The City College of San Francisco's plan to revive canceled classes by soliciting donations of $6,000 per course is making a comeback, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, minus one feature that caused the college's trustees to balk at the idea initially. Under the new plan, saviors of courses won't get naming rights.

Many faculty members at Calvin College are raising concerns about academic freedom and shared governance at the Michigan institution after its Board of Trustees last week issued a memorandum saying it was unacceptable for faculty and staff members to advocate homosexuality and same-sex marriage, the Grand Rapids Press reports. About 130 of the institution's 300 faculty members met this week to discuss the memo. The institution is affiliated with tthe Christian Reformed Church, which regards homosexual acts as sinful.