Throughout her husband's nearly 30-year career as a United States diplomat in the State Department's Foreign Service, Janice Schill gladly lived for years at a time in places where he was assigned, such as South Africa, China, Jordan, and Fiji. “I've traveled the world [with my husband Jim]... I've learned a lot, accumulated a lot of information, knowledge, experience,” Schill remarked. To immerse herself in the rich cultures into which she was embedded and to contribute to their communities, she volunteered at local hospitals and schools. Unknowingly, she was laying a strong foundation for her own entry into the Foreign Service. Once her husband retired from the foreign service, ... Read More
Math Major Laura Ramirez Turns Challenge into Achievement
Some people just love a good challenge. But how about one that started in kindergarten and continued on through high school and college? That's exactly what Laura Ramirez has taken on. The junior majoring in mathematics at California State University, Dominguez Hills has struggled with math her entire academic life; and the difficulty it presents to her is precisely what she loves about it. “I struggled a lot in math, but I like that,” said Ramirez, who hopes to teach algebra in a high school located in an underserved community, such as the South Los Angeles neighborhood she grew up in. “It makes me feel like if I struggle, then I can help students when I teach, to see how they ... Read More
Making the Grade: Teacher Candidates Learn With Their Students in Summer Lab School
“It's alive!” a child's voice could be heard over the chatting and laughing of students excited with the soggy, messy task of turning old notebook pages and newspapers into usable paper. Over the din, Sasha Magidi ('13, B.A. liberal studies: math) kept them focused. “Double-timing with the sponges, triple time, and then every time the water starts coming out of the sponges you have to drain it,” she instructed and encouraged. In another room, teens were on their feet learning what looked to be dance moves. At the head of the class, Mario Romero had the class demonstrate positive, negative, zero and undefined graph slopes using arm movements. He then set them to work finding the slope ... Read More
Annual Hispanic Education Fair on Campus Garners L.A. Emmys Governors Award
For the past four years, California State University, Dominguez Hills has hosted one of the largest one-day Spanish-language education fairs in the country through a partnership with Univision and its flagship Los Angeles station, KMEX, on Edúcalos: Es el Momento (Educate Them, the Moment is Now), the Spanish-language television network's national education initiative. On Saturday, Aug. 3, during the 65th Los Angeles Area Emmys® ceremony, the Es el Momento campaign was honored with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2013 Los Angeles Area Emmys Governors Award, the highest honor given in the local broadcast industry in recognition of an outstanding singular achievement or ... Read More
Community Members Take Part in National Park Service Planning Meeting on Tule Lake
Several Japanese Americans and other community members interested in the history of the forcible removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II assembled on the fifth floor of the Library's South Wing at California State University, Dominguez Hills on July 25 to discuss a vision for the Tule Lake Unit of World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. The meeting was one of several the National Park Service is conducting to determine the preservation and interpretation of the Tule Lake Segregation Center, where 29,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned during the war, and was organized by library dean Sandra Parham, the former director of the University Library's ... Read More
