Are trigger warnings helpful in the classroom? In today's Academic Minute, Mara Grayson of California State University, Dominguez Hills, says maybe not. Grayson is an assistant professor of English at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Source: Inside Higher Ed ... Read More
CSUDH Receives Grant to Continue Japanese American Digitization Project
(Carson, CA) - California State University, Dominguez Hills' (CSUDH) Donald R. and Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections has received $282,102 from the National Parks Service's (NPS) World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites (JACS) grant program to continue its work on the California State University Japanese American Digitization Project (CSUJAD). The JACS grant will fund the digitization of several recently donated collections that include approximately 7,000 archival items related to the incarceration of 120,000 Americans during WWII. The new collections resulted from outreach efforts during the CSUDJAD's previous two-year NPS grant in 2015. “We are thrilled with ... Read More
CSUDH Ranks Well in U.S. News & World Report
(Carson, CA) U.S. News and World Report has ranked California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) in three of its college ranking lists: “Regional Universities West,” “Best Undergraduate Teaching,” and “Top Performers on Social Mobility.” U.S. News and World Report's annual rankings are among the most anticipated in higher education. The publication's methodology groups institutions into 10 different ranking categories based on their academic missions. Overall, CSUDH's placed 72nd in “Regional Universities West,” the category in which all of CSUDH's rankings appear. The regional categories are split into four zones: North, South, Midwest, and West, and rank universities in each ... Read More
Juan Venegas Honored with 2019 CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement
California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) undergraduate Juan Venegas knows the value of hard work and isn't afraid to give everything his all. For Venegas' perseverance and dedication to his future and to helping others, the California State University (CSU) is honoring him as CSUDH recipient of the 2019 CSU Trustees' Award for Outstanding Achievement. The Award is the CSU's highest recognition of student achievement, providing annual scholarships to one student on each CSU campus who demonstrates superior academic performance, personal accomplishments, community service, and financial need. Growing up with his single mother in a low-income neighborhood in San Jose, ... Read More
Corina Benavides-Lopez is Guided by the Enduring Principles of Social Justice
Corina Benavides-Lopez considers the principles of social justice - access, equity, rights, and participation - to be the most enduring values in her life. The assistant professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) also believes that social justice is at its weakest when narrowly applied, which is why Benavides-Lopez teaches its tenets as accessible for everyone. “I don't feel that I have the right to choose what, or whom, is most important when it comes to addressing the critical issues around social justice in my research, or in the classroom,” she said. CSUDH has presented Benavides-Lopez with the 2019 Lyle E. Gibson Dominguez ... Read More
