(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) and the California State University Board of Trustees will bestow an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on 2012 Olympic gold medalist and CSUDH alumna Carmelita Jeter on May 17, at 6:30 p.m., during CSUDH's 2019 Commencement Ceremony. Jeter, who earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from CSUDH in 2006, will be recognized for her athletic achievements and continued contributions to the sport of track and field, her dedication to her community, and her success as a speaker and businesswoman. She will receive the honorary degree and give the keynote address at the College of Health, Human Services and ... Read More
Archives for April 2019
This Cal State Created A Game To Keep Students In School (And It Pays Top Players $1,000)
Cal State Dominguez Hills signed on last fall to be the test site for Charge On, a program that uses students' online social gaming skills to guide them to academic, financial, and wellness help. Nearly a third of this campus' freshman class signed up for the program. Many of them had serious struggles during their first semester. "I thought there was nobody to go to or I was just basically alone," said freshman Evelyn Montes, a graduate of Fremont High School in South L.A. who is majoring in psychology, hoping to work as a student counselor. The difference between the academic expectations of high school and college was too much. "I felt too overwhelmed and I was, like, maybe this ... Read More
Arbor Day Foundation Honors CSUDH with 2018 Tree Campus USA Recognition
(Carson, Calif.) - California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) was honored with 2018 Tree Campus USA recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management. The Tree Campus USA program honors colleges and universities for excellent campus forest management and for engaging staff and students in conservation goals. Currently, there are 364 campuses across the United States with this recognition. CSUDH achieved the recognition by meeting Tree Campus USA's five standards: maintaining a tree advisory committee; developing a campus tree-care plan; dedicating annual expenditures for its campus tree program; hosting an Arbor Day observance; ... Read More
Novelist Will Alexander will be Featured Speaker for the Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture
(Carson, Calif.) - Nationally-renowned novelist and American Book Award winner Will Alexander will be the featured speaker for California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) 2019 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 23, from 7 to 9 p.m., in Loker Student Union Ballroom. The free lecture is hosted by CSUDH's Department of English and is open to the public. Alexander has written more than 30 books and chapbooks, including Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose, Texts, Interviews, and a Lecture, which won the American Book Award in 2013, and The Sri Lankan Loxodrome and Across the Vapour Gulf, recent collections of poetry from New Directions Press. He was also honored ... Read More
Mike Kelley Foundation grants: 10 winners split $400,000 to make daring art
The Mike Kelley Foundation is expected to announce Thursday that it has awarded $400,000 in grants to 10 Southern California arts organizations, including the Echo Park Film Center, the Ford Theatres, the 18th Street Arts Center and the Pomona College Museum of Art. The Artist Project Grants, now in their fourth year, support nonprofit institutions that have paired with artists to create work in the same innovative and daring vein as Kelley's. “We look at the precedent [Kelley] set and who he was an artist, teacher and person,” said Mary Clare Stevens, executive director of the foundation. “Our mandate comes from him in many ways. It's an attempt to reflect the spirit in which ... Read More
