(Carson, CA) -The California Arts Council has awarded the PRAXIS City ArtS Parks program at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) a $135,000 Creative California Communities grant to expand to additional parks throughout the City of Carson to provide art workshops taught by working artists, and to create two public arts projects in the city. CSUDH's PRAXIS art engagement program launched the PRAXIS City ArtS Parks program in the fall 2018 to expand narratives of South Los Angeles with afterschool art and mentoring programs. The program provides an artistic outlet for youth and local community to aspire and dream, while cultivating pride and specificity of place. The ... Read More
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Assistant Professor of Sociology Joanna Perez Named Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellow
(Carson, CA) California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Assistant Professor of Sociology Joanna Perez has been named a Career Enhancement Fellow by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Perez is the first CSUDH faculty member to receive this prestigious award. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and administered by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Career Enhancement Fellowship creates career development opportunities for selected faculty fellows with promising research projects. In addition to a $30,000 grant, the award includes a stipend for research and travel or a publication. The program also provides mentoring to the recipient and participation in a ... Read More
Olympic Gold Medalist Carmelita Jeter Bestowed Honorary Doctorate During 2019 Commencement
For her athletic achievements, contributions to the sport of track and field, and her dedication to her community, Olympic Gold medalist and California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) alumna Carmelita Jeter was bestowed a California State University Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters during CSUDH's Commencement on May 17 and 18. This year, the Class of 2019 enjoyed a more intimate graduation experience in the Dignity Health Sports Park's Tennis Stadium with stands full of family and friends cheering on the graduates. The more than 3,600 graduates listened to words of well wishes, personal reflections, and insightful advice from six CSUDH alumni keynote speakers during six ... Read More
Thrown off course by the Vietnam War, Huntington Beach veteran finishes college at 71
For most, a freshly minted college diploma signifies the first step on an exciting career path. But, rather than job interviews, Joe Taylor's calendar is marked with a retirement date: July 11, less than two months after completing his bachelor's degree. Nearly half a century after abandoning his college dream, the Huntington Beach resident has graduated at age 71 from Cal State Dominguez Hills. First, his college pursuit was interrupted by the Vietnam War, and then by post-traumatic stress disorder. After graduating from Venice High in 1966, Taylor played football for a while at Los Angeles Harbor College. At 20, with draft notices on the rise, he joined the U.S Navy. “I ... Read More
The College Dropout Crisis
Opinion By David Leonhardt and Sahil Chinoy, New York Times American higher education has a dropout problem. About one in three students who enroll in college never earn a degree. But a promising solution is staring us in the face: Schools with similar students often have very different graduation rates. This suggests that the problem isn't the students – it's the schools. Here we looked at 368 colleges arranged by what we would expect their graduation rates to be, based on the average for colleges with similar student bodies. Take Western Kentucky University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At both, the expected six-year graduation rate is close to 60 percent. But the ... Read More
2019 President’s Student Leadership and Service Awards
Highlighting their exemplary leadership, commitment to inclusion and student support, and the impact they have had on the campus community, California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) honored five students with the Presidential Award for Outstanding Student during the 2019 President's Student Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony on May 7. The annual event also celebrates and showcases co-curricular experiences through student organizations, and recognizes outstanding faculty and staff who support them. The university is home to 115 student organizations with more than 2,300 students involved in various clubs. Presidential Award for Outstanding Student Alejandro Campos, ... Read More
Misreading the Story of Climate Change and the Maya
By Kenneth Seligson, California State University, Dominguez Hills (THE CONVERSATION) Carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's atmosphere have reached 415 parts per million - a level that last occurred more than three million years ago, long before the evolution of humans. This news adds to growing concern that climate change will likely wreak serious damage on our planet in the coming decades. While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica, the region that is now Guatemala, Belize, Eastern Mexico, and parts of El Salvador and ... Read More
Seven Interdisciplinary Studies Students and Co-Workers Graduate Together
Already busy with full-time jobs and family obligations, seven co-workers with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services (DPSS) enrolled together in California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) program in fall 2017, adding a full schedule of college courses to their hectic lives. Yet, they finished early, and graduated this spring with their bachelor's degrees in IDS. On May 18, they celebrated together at CSUDH's 2019 Commencement Ceremony. Rosie Desales, Gisela Bedolla, Heather Mitchell, Cynthia Uballe, Gina Plascencia, Grace Estrada, and Celina Morales were conferred IDS degrees with an emphasis in comparative cultures. Grace ... Read More
CSUDH Co-Partners with So Cal Edison on $20 Million Clean Energy Pilot
(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has been selected as one of two California State University (CSU) campuses in a new Clean Energy Optimization Pilot in partnership between Southern California Edison (SCE) and the CSU and University of California (UC) systems. On April 25, the California Public Utilities Commission approved the four-year, $20 million pilot program that gives financial incentives to the CSU and UC to identify and apply sustainable actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. CSUDH and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona will join five UC campuses and medical centers on the performance-based GHG reduction program. “This ... Read More
‘Unfinished Proof Ninomiya’ Chronicles Three Generations of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles
(Carson, CA) - The University Art Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) presents “Unfinished Proof Ninomiya,” a collection of images that represent a year's worth of research by Los Angeles artist Alan Nakagawa of the vast Ninomiya Photography Studio Collection at CSUDH. The exhibit runs in the University Art Gallery from May 8 to Sept 18, Monday-Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment only. Admission is free. “Unfinished Proof Ninomiya” is the culmination of Nakagawa's residency with CSUDH's PRAXIS Studio combing through more than 100,000 prints and negatives in Ninomiya Photo Studio Archive, which was donated for preservation to CSUDH's Donald R. ... Read More
