One of California State University, Dominguez Hills Department of History's earliest professors, San Pedro resident John William Auld, passed away on April 8 from complications of dementia. He was 71. A Midwestern boy, Auld was born Dec. 30, 1940, in Marion, Ohio, and later moved with his family to Bucyrus, Ohio, where he graduated from Bucyrus High School in 1958. He attended The College of Wooster, in Wooster, Ohio, earning his bachelor's degree in 1962. In his senior year he received the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship award to pursue graduate education, and was accepted to Stanford University. He earned his master's degree from Stanford in 1964 and his Ph.D., specializing in ... Read More
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Students and Faculty Show Work at American Museum of Ceramic Art
California State University, Dominguez Hills senior studio arts students Luis Avalos and Marco Cabrera, along with assistant professor of ceramic arts Jim Keville, have been selected to exhibit their ceramic art work at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in Pomona. The exhibit “KilnOpening.edu 2012,” which showcases ceramic works of Southern California instructors and their students, opened with an artist's reception on April 14, and will continue through June 30. For the selection process each student was allowed to submit one piece and each ceramics professor could submit up to three pieces. The pieces submitted by Avalos and Cabrera (whose entry is actually a pairing of two ... Read More
National Military Award Recognizes University ROTC Instructor
“Leadership Excellence” is an Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) motto and one that Major Heath Papkov, assistant professor of military science at California State University, Dominguez Hills, lives by. In an affirmation of this, in February Papkov was given the 2011-12 Colonel Leo A. Codd Memorial Award. Presented to one outstanding ROTC instructor from each military branch of service –Army, Navy, and Air Force–the award is also known as the ROTC Instructor of the Year Award. Army nominees must hold the rank of lieutenant commander, major, or below, and are evaluated on such criteria as their teaching performance (including evaluations by students), counseling abilities, civilian ... Read More
Toro Night with LA Galaxy: Student Interns Put Their Degrees to the Test
Estevan Hernandez and Kishore Ramlagan are taking the ultimate test toward their business management and marketing degrees. Selected for a unique collaborative internship program between The Home Depot Center, the LA Galaxy, and the California State University, Dominguez Hills College of Business Administration and Public Policy, Hernandez and Ramlagan are putting into action the many lessons and concepts they've learned in their business classes to get as many Toros as they can to buy tickets to an LA Galaxy Major League Soccer game. The “Toro Night” game is on Saturday, April 28, against FC Dallas. Using phrases such as “target marketing” and “SWOT analysis” –SWOT stands for ... Read More
Ramon Torrecilha: Meet the Provost
Bringing with him more than a decade of university administration experience and a life's story that illustrates what a dream and a college education can do for an individual, Ramon Torrecilha became California State University, Dominguez Hills's new provost and vice president for academic affairs on Feb. 20. Born in Brazil to a Puerto Rican father and Brazilian mother, Torrecilha spent much of his youth at a state school for poor children, where he took classes in the morning and worked in the fields in the afternoon. When he moved to the United States at the age of 17, he once again worked the fields, this time picking fruit in an orchard in the state of Washington. But Torrecilha ... Read More
French Film Festival at CSU Dominguez Hills Explores Cultural Diversity
Five French films will be showcased over five days in April at California State University, Dominguez Hills when the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Tournées Festival of French Films comes to campus. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Phi Alpha Theta history honors society, the 2012 Tournées Festival at CSU Dominguez Hills will screen the following films (with English subtitles): “Persepolis,” Wed., April 4; “L'avocat de la terreur” (“Terror's Advocate”), Tues., April 10; “Le chant des mariées” (“The Wedding Song”), Wed., April 11; “Entre les murs” (“The Class”), Tues., April 17; and “Welcome,” Wed., April 18. Adrien Sarre, executive director of the Consulate ... Read More
Willie Hagan Appointed Interim President of CSU Dominguez Hills
Willie Hagan, interim president of California State University, Fullerton, has been named as interim president of California State University, Dominguez Hills effective June 11. Hagan, 61, has served in various senior leadership positions at Fullerton during his 16 year tenure at the campus, including serving as vice president for administration and chief financial officer. "I am honored to have been selected to lead the Dominguez Hills campus, and look forward to working closely with faculty, students and staff to build on the university's excellent foundation," said Hagan. Hagan joined Cal State Fullerton in 1996, overseeing the university's administrative functions and has provided ... Read More
Jerry Moore: Authoring an Anthropological Look of Home
The concept of home has deep meaning for most people. It may go even deeper for Jerry Moore, professor of anthropology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. During his career as an anthropological archaeologist, he's been - as he calls it - “digging into people's home for 30 years,” searching for clues that help to unravel a fundamental question, what does it mean to be human? And, he has written about it in “The Prehistory of Home” (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2012). “The human experience is such a vast topic, but breaking it down makes it digestible. Focusing on home was a good choice [for the book], because most anyone can relate to having a home or being ... Read More
CSU Dominguez Hills Hosts White House Advisory Meeting
On Tuesday, April 3, California State University, Dominguez Hills hosted the first meeting outside of Washington D.C. of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics President's Advisory Commission, on which University President Mildred García sits. Educators and community leaders, and students of CSU Dominguez Hills attended the day-long meeting, held in the Loker Student Union ballroom, to hear White House education officials and the commission - made up of university and community college presidents, K-12 principals, education nonprofit leaders and other education experts from throughout the nation - discuss how to ensure that opportunities exist for Latino youth ... Read More
2012 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecturer Draws Inspiration from Hometown and People
Award-winning novelist Susan Straight will discuss the writing process and her most recent work when she visits California State University, Dominguez Hills as the 2012 Patricia Eliet Memorial Lecture Series guest artist, on Thursday, April 12, at 7 p.m. in the Loker Student Union Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public with a book signing immediately following. Influenced by authors who used fictional territories in their works, Straight has set nearly all of her stories in Rio Seco, a place which has roots in her hometown of Riverside, but it is really a place located in her imagination. “I knew even then, at 19, that I didn't want it to be Riverside, I wanted it to be ... Read More