In discussions of race, racism, and identity, Jewishness is a contested category. Particularly in the U.S., Jewish people are often considered white; they are framed as a religious group, rather than an ethnic one. However, this categorization can make antisemitism–and Jewish people themselves–invisible in both academic and popular discourses. Associate Professor of English Mara Lee Grayson's new book, Antisemitism and the White Supremacist Imaginary: Conflations and Contradictions in Composition and Rhetoric (Peter Lang, 2023), explores that erasure and its impact on Jewish scholars. As a Jewish woman, Grayson says the ideas within the book had been “percolating” within her for years, ... Read More
Archives for April 2023
Staff Spotlight: Krystal Rawls
As soon as the sun comes up, CSUDH Workforce Integration Network (WIN) Director Krystal Rawls is ready to go. The self-described early riser says she typically finds it hard to sleep past dawn. “There's too much life to live to sleep through it!” she says. Part of the reason she's so eager to get her day started is her passion for her work at CSUDH. WIN aims to highlight the career opportunities available for CSUDH students and other members of our community. As director, Rawls uses advanced technological resources, combined with university and industry-generated business data, to demonstrate the benefits of the CSUDH educational experience in promoting all stakeholders: students, staff, ... Read More
Male Success Alliance Induction Ceremony Returns to Campus
After a pandemic-enforced break, the CSUDH Male Success Alliance (MSA) held its first on-campus induction ceremony in four years this March. In all, 28 new MSA members were welcomed into the academic-focused support program for men of color. “The induction ceremony celebrates and honors these young men from different backgrounds, binding them together for a mission and cause that's bigger than themselves,” said MSA Director Hakeem Croom. “It charges our students to be conscious, competent, and committed, while striving for excellence in all their endeavors inside and outside of the classroom.” The MSA was founded in 2009 as a resource to improve access, retention, and graduation for ... Read More
Chronicle of Higher Education: The Backlog That Could Threaten Higher Ed’s Viability
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education California State University-Dominguez Hills started building on its current site in 1965, amid America's postwar higher-education boom, and its campus looks like a lot of regional state universities: a core of Brutalist concrete buildings with glassy, modern structures surrounding them. This campus of 16,000 students is emblematic in another way – it's racking up a mounting tab for deferred maintenance. Administrators tally the deferred maintenance there at $130 million, and growing to $252 million over the next 10 years. In September last year, the California State University system requested $1.3 billion from the State of California to address ... Read More
