The board of trustees of the 23-campus California State University System has chosen Thomas Parham as president of California State University, Dominguez Hills. Dr. Parham will take office in June as the 11th president of the university. California State University, Dominguez Hills, located in Carson between Los Angeles and Long Beach, enrolls nearly 13,000 undergraduate students and more than 2,000 graduate students. African Americans make up 13 percent of the undergraduate student body, according to the latest data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education. Currently, Dr. Parham serves as vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California, Irvine. He has held ... Read More
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‘In the Next Room’ Sure to Create Hysteria
California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) production of “In the Next Room (or the vibrator play),” playwright Sarah Ruhl's comedic play set in the 1880s about sex, intimacy, equality, and the use of a new instrument to treat female “hysteria,” will run on campus April 6, 7, 13, and 14 at 8 p.m., and April 15 at 2 p.m. Produced by CSUDH's Department of Theatre and Dance, and directed by Shonni Holmes, alumnus and theatre arts faculty member, “In the Next Room” is the department's final theatrical production of the 2017-18 season. “Sarah Ruhl is masterful at two things:finding the humor in serious topics, and exploring the depths of the female experience, and'In the Next ... Read More
Graduating Studio Art/Design Students Exhibit their Work
Contact: Kathy Zimmerer: (310) 243-3334; kzimmerer@csudh.edu (Carson, CA) - From mixed media and ceramic sculpture to paintings and socially engaged ad campaigns, the creative diversity and talent of 53 graduating seniors from the California State University, Dominguez Hills Art and Design Department will be on full display in “Content: 2018 Senior Studio Art Exhibition” (April 16-24) and a one-day pop-up exhibit, “Vantage Point: 2018 Senior Design Showcase” (May 3). “Content: 2018 Senior Studio Art Exhibition” will run April 16-24 with an opening reception on Monday, April 16 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The “Vantage Point: 2018 ... Read More
How Big Data is Destroying Your Privacy
Nancy Deng, associate professor of Information Systems, was interviewed by the company ConsumerTrack, Inc. for a web feature that reveals how "big data" is utilized by digital data brokers to monetize, sell, and profit from an individual's personal information. The piece appeared on MSN Lifestyle, and the company's website gobankingrates.com. Source: MSN ... Read More
Campus Reduces Energy Grid Dependency with Artificial Intelligence
A new energy storage system on the California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) campus is reducing the university's impact on the local power grid and making the campus more sustainable. Twenty large Tesla battery banks installed on the campus in December 2017 went online at the beginning of the year, making CSUDH one of the first to participate in an innovative load relief program that combines artificial intelligence (AI)-energy storage and demand response. “We have a one-of-a-kind demand response system that nobody else is doing yet, which shows other universities and big players out there that Cal State Dominguez Hills is paving the way in energy efficiency technology,” ... Read More
Bianca Murillo Radically Rethinks Global Capitalism
Associate Professor of History Bianca Murillo's first book, “Market Encounters: Consumer Cultures in Twentieth Century Ghana” (Ohio University Press, 2017), provides an expansive perspective of global capitalism that examines how race, gender, and power are created through commercial networks, and offers a radical rethinking of how economies and markets function. Funded by the Fulbright Hays Program and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Murillo conducted extensive research in the U.K., Europe, and West Africa to trace the evolution of consumerism in the colonial Gold Coast and independent Ghana as far back as the late 19th Century. But while much of the research for her book was spent ... Read More
Thomas Parham Appointed CSUDH President
The board of trustees of the 23-campus California State University System has chosen Thomas Parham as president of California State University, Dominguez Hills. Dr. Parham will take office in June as the eighth permanent president of the university. California State University, Dominguez Hills, located in Carson between Los Angeles and Long Beach, enrolls nearly 13,000 undergraduate students and more than 2,000 graduate students. African Americans make up 13 percent of the undergraduate student body, according to the latest data submitted to the U.S. Department of Education. Currently, Dr. Parham serves as vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California, Irvine. He ... Read More
Female presidents now in the majority at Cal State
When administrators invited Lynnette Zelezny, a budding psychology lecturer at Cal State Fresno, to apply for a tenure-track job, she was excited – but there was a catch. She didn't have her doctorate yet, and tenure-track jobs required one. She was also a mother of three, and at the time, she said, there were no doctoral psychology programs in the Central Valley. "I had to make a decision: Did I want to move forward and leave the Central Valley?" she said. "Was I willing to take a risk with three young children?" She went to Claremont Graduate University, where she took classes and managed a research lab while her husband, a lawyer, took care of the kids. Every week, she returned ... Read More
Thomas A. Parham to become next president at Carson’s Cal State Dominguez Hills
Thomas A. Parham, vice chancellor of student affairs at UC Irvine, will become the next president of Cal State Dominguez Hills in Carson. Parham said he looks forward to becoming a “servant leader” at the university. “There is no greater blessing in life, next to being a parent, than being entrusted with the intellectual and personal growth and development of students, and I enthusiastically support the CSUDH mission to provide a transformative education to a wonderfully diverse and intellectually engaged student population,” Parham said in a statement. “This is a time of growth and opportunity for the university and there are many exciting challenges that lay ahead.” Parham will ... Read More
New President Of California State University, Dominguez Hills Appointed
The California State University Board of Trustees has appointed Thomas Parham as president of California State University, Dominguez Hills. Parham is currently the vice chancellor of student affairs for the University of California, Irvine, a role he has held since 2011. He is also the author of six books and is a former president of the Association of Black Psychologists. He assumes his new position in June. “There is no greater blessing in life, next to being a parent, than being entrusted with the intellectual and personal growth and development of students,” he said. Source: Long Beach Business Journal ... Read More
