The South Bay's economy is expected to downshift in 2020, along with the national and global economies, but will remain stable, according to the fifth annual South Bay Economic Forecast, which was released Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 29. Despite the downshift, the report never mentioned the word “recession.” The report was commissioned by the South Bay Economics Institute at Cal State Dominguez Hills, in Carson, and released during a conference of regional business leaders titled “A Region in Transition: Advances in Innovative Technology.” The forecast discussed 2020 and looked back at some of the economic data from 2018; it did not, however, discuss the region's economy so far this ... Read More
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Top 10 Universities that Attract Latino Students
The ultimate goal of a university is to accept diversity behind their students' different cultures. A university must ensure that students are comfortable and are at ease once they entered the campus. Hence, the mental and psychological domains of students must be well acculturated aside from their welfare. Today, let's take a look at the top 10 universities that attract latino students the most. The data recently gathered by U.S. news annual survey highlighted the top 10 universities that attract latino students who are seeking undergraduate degrees in the fall of 2017. According to a report published in usnews.com, the following are the universities that attract latino students: The data ... Read More
Cal State Dominguez Hills receives $10 Million in Federal Grants
Carson's Cal State Dominguez Hills has received $10 million in federal grants to establish a comprehensive residency program that will train more than 250 science, technology, engineering and math teachers and serve 40,000 students through grade 12 in Los Angeles County. Dubbed Project REAL – Residency for Equity through Action and Learning – the 15-month-long residency provides graduate-level STEM teacher candidates with a $24,000 stipend and pairs them with trained teachers in historically understaffed local schools. “This is transformational for the campus community and for the schools and communities we serve,” said Prof. Kamal Hamden, director of the Center for Innovation in STEM ... Read More
Poverty Rates are Pretty Low, but So Are Poverty Lines
Highlights from the recent poverty report, Income and Poverty in the United States: 2018, at .census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-266.html. 1. The 2018 poverty rate--the percentage of the population under federal poverty lines--was 11.8%. Since 1959, the rate has been under 12 eleven times: seven times in the 1970s; three at the end of the Clinton-Greenspan boom (1999-2001); and then only once more, in 2018. 2. Of course, poverty rates are much higher for some social groups. The black rate in 2018 was 20.7%, the Hispanic rate 17.6%. Even after a decade-long economic recovery, one in five black Americans and almost the same fraction of Hispanics were poor. 3. Since they ... Read More
Trigger Warnings in the Classroom
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
