California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) is a partner campus on three National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling $2.5 million to continue their success in increasing the number of Hispanic and other underserved students studying computer science. The lead grant is a five-year, $2 million Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI) award. CAHSI is a grassroots effort to increase the number of Hispanic students who pursue degrees in the computer science and engineering. The alliance is composed of the member institutions: CSUDH; Florida International University; New Mexico State University; Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; University of Houston-Downtown; ... Read More
Archives for September 2016
CSUDH Receives $2.5 Million to Provide Compton Unified Student Tutoring
Compton Unified School District (CUSD) has awarded California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) more than $2.5 million in contracts to provide programs that offer supplemental tutoring and instruction for CUSD students, and professional development for all the district's middle school math teachers. To improve student learning, CSUDH received $1.375 million to create and launch the Compton-Toros Academy (CTA), a new English and mathematics supplemental instruction and tutoring program for 3rd through 12th grade students at CUSD. The program, which was developed by CSUDH's California STEM Institute for Innovation and Improvement (CSI3), serves 1,350 students and takes place outside ... Read More
Alumnus Patrick Gannon Works to Thicken LAX’s ‘Thin Blue Line’
Four minutes and eight seconds. That is how quickly Los Angeles Airport Police Division officers responded and stopped a gunman who had already killed one Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer from carrying out his plan to kill even more. A well-choreographed response to the 2013 shooting of a TSA agent at LAX.The November 1, 2013 attack at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) made international headlines, and in the thick of it was California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) alumnus Patrick Gannon ('83, B.A., public administration), who at the time had been serving as chief of airport police for just over a year. In August 2016, he was promoted to his current ... Read More
President Hagan Addresses the Campus Community During 2016 Fall Convocation
In his 2016 Fall Convocation remarks, Willie J. Hagan, president of California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), says he sees a “bright future” for the university, or what he called the “Magic Kingdom." “I know it is Disneyland's tagline, but it is appropriate because magic does happen on this campus every day. It happens in our classrooms, communities, and in the minds of our students,” said Hagan. It also happens in our minds as we reflect on why we are here and what we do.” Hagan also shared his enthusiasm about new projects on campus and how “in demand” the university has become in recent years with enrollment applications and admissions, philanthropic support, and the ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills and Partners Receive NSF Computer Science Grants totalling $2.5 million
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) is a partner campus on three National Science Foundation (NSF) grants totaling $2.5 million to continue its success in increasing the number of Hispanic and other underserved students studying computer science. The lead grant is a five-year, $2 million Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI) award. CAHSI is composed of more than 10 member institutions: CSUDH; Florida International University; New Mexico State University; Texas A&M-Corpus Christi; University of Houston-Downtown; University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez; and the University of Texas at El Paso. “We have developed several initiatives through CASHI ... Read More
