(Carson, CA) California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has received a $4.5 million GEAR UP program grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to increase the number of low-income students in the Compton Unified School District (CUSD) who are prepared to enter and succeed in college. The seven-year GEAR UP grant will enable CSUDH faculty and staff to work with CUSD and other entities to create academic development programs and activities for a cohort of advanced underserved students starting in the 7th grade and through their graduation at Dominguez High School. The grant will also provide college scholarships for low-income students. “Every single time we compete for ... Read More
Archives for October 2018
New Cal State Dominguez Hills President Thomas Parham Discusses Plans to Transform Campus
Thomas A. Parham, 64, vice chancellor of student affairs at UC Irvine, was recently appointed the next president of Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson. The Southern California News Group sat down with Parham to discuss his vision and priorities for the campus. Q: You have just become president of one of the most diverse universities in the Cal State system after a 33-year career at UC Irvine where you had a reputation for tackling social justice issues such as gender equity. As an African American educator, is this pretty much the logical final step in your career and a dream job? A: I am uncompromising in my clarity about my African-centered roots and my pride culturally. In ... Read More
‘Queen Sugar’ Screening, Discussion with Director and Writer at CSUDH
An episode of “Queen Sugar,” the groundbreaking television drama that airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), will be screened at CSU Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) on Oct. 18 at 7 p.m. followed by a discussion with the show's director Shaz Bennett and writer Mike Flynn. The screening is hosted by CSUDH's Hollywood by the Horns program. “Queen Sugar” is co-executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava Duvernay, the director of the 2014 movie "Selma" who hired only women independent film directors for "Queen Sugar" who have never worked in the episodic television form, which has changed the game in the industry for women filmmakers, according to Filmmaker Magazine. Set in Louisiana, “Queen ... Read More
Faculty Highlights, September 2018
Our faculty members participate in conferences around the world, conduct groundbreaking research, and publish books and journal papers that contribute to their field and highlight their expertise. We feature those accomplishments and more in this section. College of Arts and Humanities Salim Faraji, professor of Africana Studies, presented the paper “The Ascendancy of the Kushite Kingdom of Kerma in the Post Middle Kingdom Era: Revisiting the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt” at the 14th Annual International Conference on Nubian Studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne/Louvre Museum. Faraji also presented “Osirian Motifs in the Martyrdom of St. Peter of Alexandria” during the ... Read More
President Thomas A. Parham Delivers his First Convocation Address
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) President Thomas A. Parham gave his first official address as the university's 11th president on Sept. 20 at the 2018 Fall Convocation. Parham began his speech by expressing how honored he was to be part of the Toro family and introducing himself to faculty, staff, and students. He touched on his “working poor” upbringing in Los Angeles with a single mother and three siblings, as well as other social circumstances that might have predicted the trajectory of his life. “Indeed, trajectory predictions are never a certainty, and yet no mathematical formula or probability statistic could calculate potential, or predict with any ... Read More
