Source: CalMatters Listen to an interview of article author Marisa Martinez on KCRW's Press Play. Growing up as the youngest child of four, Fernando Gomez would often pass the time by watching his two older brothers play the video games Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy while sitting cross-legged on his brother's bed. Gaming “kind of brought us together,” Gomez said. It also inspired him to create San Francisco State University's first student-run esports program as an undergrad – experience he parlayed into a post-grad job as the digital content coordinator for the Portland Trailblazers. “That experience is 100% why I'm here today, doing what I do now,” Gomez ... Read More
California State University campuses in Los Angeles County awarded grants to increase transfers
Source: EdSource A new initiative aims to increase the number of students transferring from community colleges in Los Angeles County to two of the county's California State University campuses. A coalition of nonprofit organizations, called the Los Angeles Postsecondary Education Funders Collaborative, announced Thursday that they will award $550,000 in grants to CSU Dominguez Hills and CSU Northridge, with the goal of helping more students transfer to those campuses from eight community colleges in the county. Of that grant money, $300,000 will go to Northridge and $250,000 to Dominguez Hills. With five CSU campuses and 21 community colleges in LA County, students often encounter ... Read More
