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
CSUDH In The News
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
CSUDH in Talks to House the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum
Cal State University Dominguez Hills is in negotiations to house the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum collection – more than 2 million historical artifacts, rare books, photographs, and other types of memorabilia about the African American experience in this country. After more than a decade in a Los Angeles County facility, occupants of the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum vacated that property for good on July 31. The end goal for the Mayme A. Clayton Library & Museum is to be housed in a permanent location, said Lloyd Clayton, executive director and son of the founder. Clayton stated that West Los Angeles Community College has proposed putting up the collection on a ... Read More
CSUDH Gets its Hands on a Huge Repository of Obscure and Radical Political Texts
Newsletters with evocative titles such as “Practical Anarchy” and “Bolshevik Tendencies” – tucked away in cardboard boxes bearing labels like “Anarchism Collection (Box 2) – sit, uncatalogued, in the library basement at Cal State Dominguez Hills. Shelves there contain more than 5,700 books devoted to fringe and mainstream political movements, and diverse subjects such as Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War and the American Civil Rights movement. And there are scrapbooks, buttons, video and audio tapes, personal papers of activists, and cheaply produced pamphlets – often discarded quickly, they are now rare – crammed into dozens of cardboard boxes. This hodgepodge of political ... Read More
