Source: U.S. News & World Report As the Hispanic population has grown in the U.S. in recent decades, with it has come the emergence of Hispanic Serving Institutions. Hispanic Serving Institutions – HSIs – are colleges and universities where Hispanic students make up at least 25% of the full-time equivalent student body, according to the U.S. Department of Education. Hispanic Serving Institutions must be certified as such by the Department of Education. Certification gives schools eligibility to compete for grants earmarked for HSIs. These funds also enable colleges to continue to recruit Hispanic students and to support them on campus, guiding students ... Read More
CSUDH In The News
Telemundo: Labor Studies Professor Discusses Importance of Immigration to Voters
Source: Telemundo 52 [Video, Spanish] With just a few weeks to go before the end of the U.S. election season, a survey conducted by Telemundo revealed how relevant the immigration issue is for voters. Assistant Professor of Labor Studies Alfredo Carlos analyzed the data. ... Read More
LAist: At Cal State Dominguez Hills, Students Are Connecting Other Students to Health Services
Source: LAist The Student Health Center at Cal State Dominguez Hills saw use of its services plummet after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. That’s not a surprise. Students didn’t set foot on campus for months at a time. “During the COVID years, we were down significantly, seeing… 1,200 [to]1,100,” students, said Susan Flaming Yeats, who directs CSUDH’s Student Health Center. Before the pandemic the center served a high of 1,241 students in Sept. 2019. To turn things around, last year the center’s staff made it a goal to increase the number of students served by 7%. By the end of the academic year they’d more than doubled that goal. So far this semester the center has served 1,402 ... Read More
L.A. Times: Good Salary, Little to No Debt — A California College Guide to Top-Value Majors
Source: L.A. Times Edgar Roa was mostly raised by an immigrant mother without a high school degree, surviving on welfare benefits as his family frequently moved around Southern California in pursuit of affordable housing. But he is poised to graduate next spring with a degree in a medical field with median earnings of $126,318 five years after graduation, and from a university with an average net cost of just $4,000 annually. Those low tuition costs and high earnings — along with his GI Bill benefits and a federal Pell Grant — will enable Roa to graduate debt free and transform the future of his family. He attends Cal State Dominguez Hills, one of the state’s most effective ... Read More
L.A. Times: How a Jaguar Cub Wound Up in a California Suburb
Source: L.A. Times This article features Ed Newcomer, a CSUDH lecturer of criminal justice and former Fish and Wildlife agent. At less than a month old, unsteady on his small paws, the jaguar cub was already working. While others born in the Amazon rainforest were still being nursed by their mothers, he was rented out to do a photo op in a Texas hotel room for $1,000 an hour. People snapped their fingers to get the cub’s attention and held him on their laps. They posed with him for photos later posted on Instagram. In video of one such photo shoot, the cub — smaller than a house cat — shrank back from the loud voices around him. As the jaguar wandered on the hotel carpet, ... Read More
