When Cristina Rose (Smith) is teaching, she doesn't just lecture while students jot down notes. Rather, Rose acts as an active and engaging facilitator of conversation - letting students take the lead in their own discoveries. Rose, who has taught in the CSUDH Women's Studies program since 2014, describes herself as relational and feminist in her teaching approach. Her pedagogy is “less about having the answers, and more about asking the questions that will bring us into fuller lives,” she says. “I share my life and who I am with students. It feels like I am actively part of this community. I think from here, I am from here, and this is my home.” That passion for connection has ... Read More
HyperX to Become Official Gaming Peripheral Partner of CSUDH Esports Association
(Carson, CA) California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has partnered with HyperX, a global leader in esports equipment, to become the 'Official Gaming Peripheral Partner' of the CSUDH Esports Association. HyperX will provide the Esports Incubator Lab with gaming keyboards, headsets, mouses, microphones, and other state-of-the-art gaming peripherals. Formed in 2017 by student gamers, the CSUDH Esports Association currently boasts almost 200 members who compete against other universities nationwide and are quickly establishing themselves in collegiate gaming. Esports at CSUDH is part of a broader student success strategy to provide students with opportunities, build community, ... Read More
CSU Lecturers Bring Pedagogy to Podcasting with Las Doctoras
In the opening lines of their Las Doctoras podcast, Cristina Rose (Smith) and Renee Lemus invite listeners to join them at their kitchen table to question systems of power, sip on some tequila, and change the world. It's a premise rooted in the duo's shared mission: to demystify academic discourse by taking it beyond the classroom, and into public spaces. By chance, Rose and Lemus had met and hit it off at their children's playgroup, where they discovered their mutual academic and personal backgrounds. Not only did they hail from the same area of Los Angeles and share similar family experiences, but they also both taught within the CSU system. Rose is a lecturer of Women's Studies at ... Read More
CSUDH Student Turns Hobby into Start-Up Business
When the COVID-19 lockdown first took effect in March 2020, CSUDH student Alexandra Carrasco suddenly found herself stuck at home with a lot of extra time on her hands. She decided to put that time to good use, building a customized computer keyboard for herself. In the months since, she's been able to turn those skills into a fledgling business, creating custom keyboards for clients by hand. Carrasco, a junior majoring in business administration with an entrepreneurship concentration, first became interested in “mechanical keyboards” when she was still in high school. “Mechanical keyboards have a physical switch in them,” Carrasco explains, “so when you press it, it actually hits a ... Read More
CSUDH Alumna Gracie Ann Dinkins Impacts Lives at Home and Abroad
From an early age, CSUDH alumna Gracie Ann Dinkins ('87, BA, Chemistry) was taught the value of giving back to the community. “My mother instilled the importance of service and sacrifice very early in all of her children,” she says. These days, Dinkins is living out those lessons, working as a trauma and acute care surgeon at a pair of Southern California hospitals while also helping rescue an elementary school in Liberia. Dinkins, who grew up in Liberia, was attending the University of Liberia in 1984 when political and social upheaval that would devolve into a 14-year civil war in the country disrupted her educational journey “The country experienced serious civil unrest and student-led ... Read More
