Faculty and staff across the California State University are working together to narrow the academic equity gap with help from an innovative professional development program. By: Hazel Kelly It's the little things that count. As simple as it sounds, sometimes just connecting with a student or showing concern can have an impact on their performance in class. For historically underserved and first-generation college students, these connections really count. That's what CSU Dominguez Hills sociology professor Katy Pinto, Ph.D., along with a team from her campus, discovered when they analyzed data for courses in which underrepresented students were performing better than their peers to ... Read More
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Climate Change Fueled the Rise and Demise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
By: Ashish Sinha, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and Gayatri Kathayat, Xi'an Jiaotong University Ancient Mesopotamia, the fabled land between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers, was the command and control center of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This ancient superpower was the largest empire of its time, lasting from 912 BC to 609 BC in what is now modern Iraq and Syria. At its height, the Assyrian state stretched from the Mediterranean and Egypt in the west to the Persian Gulf and western Iran in the east. Then, in an astonishing reversal of fortune, the Neo-Assyrian Empire plummeted from its zenith (circa 650 BC) to complete political collapse within the span of just a few ... Read More
Climate Change may be Behind Fall of Ancient Empire, Say Researchers
The Neo-Assyrian empire was a mighty superpower that dominated the near east for 300 years before its dramatic collapse. Now researchers say they have a novel theory for what was behind its rise and fall: climate change. The empire emerged in about 912BC and grew to stretch from the Mediterranean down to Egypt and out to the Persian Gulf. But shortly after the death of the king Ashurbanipal around 630BC, the empire began to crumble, with the grand city of Nineveh sacked in 612BC. By the end of the seventh century BC, the empire's fall was complete. Now scientists say the reversal in the empire's fortunes appears to coincide with a dramatic shift in its climate from wet to dry - a ... Read More
South Bay Economic Forecast: Local Economy will Slow Next Year, but Won’t Slip into Recession
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
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
