More teachers needed, but without credentials...

What happened to "CA needs more teachers!"???

Taken from the CSUEB site:

Due to the state budget shortfall, the California State University Chancellor’s Office has asked all CSU campuses, including Cal State East Bay, to stop accepting Winter Quarter 2010 applications as of July 6 and to not accept any Spring Quarter 2010 applications. A limited number of majors may receive a special exception to this application closure policy. These majors are being determined now. As soon as more information is available on this application closure and the majors considered exceptions to the policy, Cal State East Bay will communicate this to our students and educational partners.

You can read the rest here.

I guess I'm not getting my credentials any time soon. Praise the Lord that Mr. Woo got in this summer! Better him than me. And for those who applied and didn't get in - you're not alone. In fact, more than half of the qualified applicants were turned away due to these nasty budget cuts.

I'm seeing some contradictions here...
Obama or Arnold?

:: Honeymooners beware ::

Bees, beware of scams! I know that we've had some Bees who had questions about scams, so I hope this post can be of some assistance to you, or at least point you in the direction toward getting answers.

When my Mr. and I were first looking at honeymoon packages, we had simply 3 criteria in mind: (1) affordable, (2) fun, and (3) a place where we wouldn't run into anyone we know.

Then, we heard about a fax that came into the school office that day. It was for a hotel in Puerto Vallarta - exactly where we wanted to go! On top of that, they were having a Buy One (vacation), Get One Free special. Like a good future husband, Mr. decided that we should give them a call and see what the catch was.

They were very good at convincing us that it was worth all our while to book the package. But we kept thinking that it just sounded too good to be true. Then we found out that a co-worker's cousin is a travel agent, so she offered to look into it for us.

It was a SCAM! She warned us, which I pass along urgently to you, that anything that sounds TOO good to be true, probably is. Never give out valuable information until you're certain that the agent is legit. Here's my list of helpful tips, none too difficult but all that may help protect you from money-hungry, deceiving theives!

Three ways to prevent could've-would've-should've disasters:

• Use your connections!
• Family, friends, friends' sister's nephew, etc.
• They know more than you. Why not pick their brains?
  
• Utilize search engines
• Like Google.
• It's amazing how far the Internet really can take you.
  
• Read reviews
• On Yelp, etc.
• They've already done the hard work for you.
  

How else can we keep ourselves from getting scammed?