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
Archive
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
Cyber Defense: Students Win Third in Competition
Months of preparation paid off for a group of students in the Department of Computer Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills, who began their Spring Break as the third place winners in the 2012 Western Regional Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition. “When they called us up to present our team with the third place medals, I don't think anyone on the team expected it,” said senior computer technology major John Harwell, who served as team captain. “This was a very tough competition… . So needless to say, we were extremely happy with the results. It more than made up for all the effort that everyone on the team put forth.” Host by Cal Poly Pomona from March 23 to 25, the ... Read More
Alumni Make Connections at Cozy Reception
Among displays of flowing jelly fish, seahorses, and other exotic marine life at the San Pedro Cabrillo Marine Aquarium more than 100 alumni, faculty, staff and friends mingled at a California State University, Dominguez Hills Alumni and Friends Reception on March 22. Welcoming guests to the Cabrillo Aquarium event, University President Mildred García said, “We want our alumni to be connected to [CSU] Dominguez Hills. We are coming to you, in your neighborhood, in your area, to make sure you get to know us and come back to the campus, to see how beautiful the campus is, to see how many students we have.” Alumna Paula Moore (Class of 1980, B.A., psychology), executive director of ... Read More
Business, Nursing Faculty Work to Address Nursing Shortage in African Nation
Sometimes all it takes to accomplish a task, to move forward, to succeed is that one thing that's just out of reach. But with it, everything will fall into place. Such appears to be the case for the nursing program at the Hubert Kairuki Memorial University (HKMU) in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania. The private university seeks to play a larger role in addressing the drastic health care shortage in that country and sees online instruction as a viable way to increase the number of nurses - as well as future nursing faculty - it educates. However, one main barrier to moving forward is lack of expertise in developing such a program. With over 30 years of delivery nursing education via ... Read More
Campus Marks a First Hosting Regional Dance Festival
The Department of Theatre and Dance at California State University, Dominguez Hills gained a distinction in the world of collegiate dance. It served as the host of the inaugural Baja Region Conference of the American College Dance Festival Association (ACDFA). Nearly 400 faculty and students from Northern, Southern California, Nevada, and Arizona colleges and universities took part in the conference from March 23 through 26 on campus Professor and coordinator of the CSU Dominguez Hills dance program Doris Ressl, who served as the conference organizer, said the newly established ACDFA Baja Region was created to accommodate a need in the organization's expanding Southwest Region, in ... Read More
Anthropology Professor Receives NOAA Sea Grant Funding to Study Value-Added Market Approaches to California Fisheries
Fishermen are not unlike other small business owners experiencing hardships in today's tough economic climate. How to help them develop new strategies that are socially, economically and environmentally sustainable will be the focus of a new research project being led by California State University, Dominguez Hills assistant professor of anthropology Ana Pitchon Funded by the California Sea Grant and University of Southern California Sea Grant programs as part of a $1 million coastal social science research initiative, the project is one of two selected from a competitive, peer-reviewed grant process. “These projects are part of our commitment to innovation using science–and that ... Read More
Summer Session Offers Value and Flexibility
If you think summer school is a bummer, guess again. There's good news. Along with helping students make progress toward their degree, the CSU Dominguez Hills College of Extended and International Education(CEIE) has revamped its tuition fee schedule and refund policy beginning for the 2012 summer session. The changes offer students an affordable alternative to getting the classes they need and a more equitable refund policy. Previously, students paid for six summer session units regardless of how many units they took–anywhere from one to six. Now, extended education fees are based on per credit unit pricing, which means students will only pay for the amount of units in which ... Read More
