Education is all about empowering students, according to Parveen Chhetri, assistant professor in the Department of Earth Science and Geography at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). For the trio of student assistants working in CSUDH's Tree-Ring Lab -- David “Skip” Saldana, Michelle Mohr, and Gabriel Angulo -- that means getting invaluable hands-on experience in the skills of dendrochronology, the dating and study of annual growth rings in trees. The Tree-Ring Lab is currently working on a project analyzing the history of drought events in California. By examining the thickness of trees' yearly growth rings, they can deduce the amount of rainfall an area received in a ... Read More
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Katy Pinto Helps Students Turn Research into New Knowledge
When she was a graduate student, Katy Pinto didn't feel that her professors understood her research interests. Worse yet, she felt that she had to convince them that the populations she wanted to study–Latinx immigrants and ethnic minority groups–mattered enough to be considered as research topics. Now, as a professor of sociology at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), she lets her students decide what matters most. “I don't want my students to feel the same way. I want them to know that their questions and ideas are important,” said Pinto, who has been teaching at CSUDH since 2007. “Instead of dismissing students' research ideas outright, we work together to make ... Read More
Alumna Maria Villa Elected Chair of CSUDH Philanthropic Foundation
(Carson, CA) - Maria Villa, a principle for the law firm of Lathrop and Villa in Rolling Hills Estates, CA, and a nationally-recognized advocate for Latinx attorneys, has been elected chair of the board of directors for the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Philanthropic Foundation. Villa, a CSUDH alumna who graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration in 1982, has served on the foundation's board since May 2018. Her wealth of knowledge, passion, and support for the foundation's mission will serve her well as chair, leading the active promotion and stewardship of private support for the advancement of the university. “As an alumna, I know ... Read More
Department of Theatre and Dance Announces Public Audition Opportunities for Fall Season
(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Department of Theatre and Dance will hold auditions Aug. 28 and 29 in the University Theatre for its fall 2019 theatre productions of “Asuncion” and “Fuddy Meers.” The auditions are open to the public and seek performers from all demographics and ages. “Asuncion” runs October 11-20: Four roles are open for audition, three men and one woman. “Asuncion,” by Jesse Eisenberg, is a play that challenges our own views of politics and race. When a young Filipina woman named Asuncion becomes the roommate of Edgar and Vinny, the men attempt to prove how open minded they really are, but she serves to expose the shallowness of ... Read More
Elvira Teller Reveals Opportunity for Students and Non-Tenure Track Faculty
For Elvira (Vera) Teller, lecturer of information systems and operations management at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), being an educator means helping students make connections and challenging them to reach their full potential. Teller, who has been teaching at CSUDH for 10 years, was honored this year with the Catherine H. Jacobs Outstanding Faculty Lecturer Award. The award recognizes faculty who demonstrate excellence in teaching effectiveness, and acknowledges the role non-tenure track lecturers play in student success and the campus community as a whole. Before moving into teaching, Teller spent over 25 years as director of systems and programming for ... Read More
Department of Theatre and Dance Hosts Student Auditions for Dance Concert ‘Renovations’
California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Department of Theatre and Dance will host dance auditions for CSUDH students interested in performing in the 2019 faculty-guest dance concert “Renovations.” The auditions will take place Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. in the CSUDH Dance Studio, GYM A102. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. To audition, students should bring a dance resume, headshot, and wear dance attire. Participants should be prepared for a brief warm-up, to learn movement combinations, and to dance modern, jazz, hip-hop, ballet, Latin, and African dance. Rehearsals for students selected to perform in “Renovations” will take place one to two days per week in the evenings and/or ... Read More
CSUDH in Talks to House the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum
Cal State University Dominguez Hills is in negotiations to house the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum collection – more than 2 million historical artifacts, rare books, photographs, and other types of memorabilia about the African American experience in this country. After more than a decade in a Los Angeles County facility, occupants of the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum vacated that property for good on July 31. The end goal for the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum is to be housed in a permanent location, said Lloyd Clayton, executive director and son of the founder. Clayton stated that West Los Angeles Community College has proposed putting up the collection on a ... Read More
Faculty Highlights: July 2019
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 Education Anthony Normore, professor emeritus of school leadership in graduate education, delivered the Walter D. Cocking Lecture at the International Council of Professors of Educational Leadership and the Educational Leaders Without Borders conference in July 2019 at Soka University of America in Aliso Viejo, CA. Normore's presentation was titled “Human Rights, Civil Rights and Democracy in Context of Educational Leadership ... Read More
CSUDH Gets its Hands on a Huge Repository of Obscure and Radical Political Texts
Newsletters with evocative titles such as “Practical Anarchy” and “Bolshevik Tendencies” – tucked away in cardboard boxes bearing labels like “Anarchism Collection (Box 2) – sit, uncatalogued, in the library basement at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Shelves there contain more than 5,700 books devoted to fringe and mainstream political movements, and diverse subjects such as Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War and the American Civil Rights movement. And there are scrapbooks, buttons, video and audio tapes, personal papers of activists, and cheaply produced pamphlets – often discarded quickly, they are now rare – crammed into dozens of cardboard boxes. This hodgepodge of political ... Read More
Orie Berezan Studies what Drives Behavior, Loyalty, and Emotions on Social Media
“Traveling is an addiction” for Orie Berezan, assistant professor of management and marketing at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH). In fact, his extensive use of frequent traveler perks led him to make customer loyalty and satisfaction programs his first focus of research as a Ph.D. student. In his work, Berezan explores the background and success of industry loyalty programs and seeks answers to why people invest their time in amassing the benefits, and what motivates customers to keep coming back. His work has evolved to explore the drivers of social media behavior and the relationships between social media use and customer satisfaction and loyalty, perceived virtual ... Read More
