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Daily Breeze: CSUDH Receives $1.6 Million to Preserve Historic Music from African Diaspora

Source: Daily Breeze The Michigan-based Georgia and Nolan Payton Foundation has offered Carson's Cal State Dominguez Hills a $1.6 million gift that will help preserve historic musical performances and songs for the new Center For African Diaspora Sacred Music and Musicians. Formerly known as the African Diaspora Sacred Music and Musicians Program, it already includes the Georgia and Nolan Payton Archive of Sacred Music. The program, which focuses on music created and performed in Southern California, is internationally recognized for its preservation and promotion of African Diaspora music, which dates from the days Black people were enslaved. “The investment in support of our ... Read More

LB Business Journal: Strong Tech Sector, Infrastructure Investments will Aid South Bay Economic Recovery

Source: Long Beach Business Journal In many ways, Cal State Dominguez Hills' 2020 South Bay Economic Forecast and Industry Outlook paints as grim a picture as any economic analysis of the current situation. Significant job losses, racial inequity among those suffering the harshest impacts of the economic slowdown–Los Angeles County, and by extension the South Bay, have been hit hard. But there are glimmers of hope that have led the university's economic expert to feel more confident in the region's economic future than the projected 15.6% year-over-year increase in unemployment for the second quarter might suggest. The tech industry, one of the largest employers in the region, has ... Read More

Engagement and Activism in Modern Physics Education

Source: Physics Central By Korena Di Roma Howley As a young girl growing up in Sacramento, California, Ximena Cid would sit on her roof and stare at the night sky. “I always had a love of the stars, of the universe,” she says. Today, Cid is chair of the physics department at California State University, Dominguez Hills and has pivoted from a focus in space science to one in physics education research (PER). “In grad school, I became more and more fascinated with the way people learn [and how] the ways in which we present ideas impacts how people understand them,” she says. She looks at how topics in physics might be rendered to better support students, noting that teaching in ... Read More

EdSource: Colleges, Fearing Enrollment Loss this Fall, are Trying Hard to Bond with Students

Source: EdSource CSU Dominguez Hills is taking an unusual step to bond its new students – and their wardrobes – to the university campus even though orientation and most fall classes will be online. Incoming freshmen and transfer students at the California State University campus will first go through an online registration via Zoom. But then they will get a taste of real-world school spirit before classes begin with free swag bags of shirts, visors, caps, markers, pens and academic calendars all bearing the school name and logo. Plans call for possible drive-by distributions on campus, with timed reservations and loadings directly into car trunks, while cheerleaders perform from a ... Read More