Opinion By David Leonhardt and Sahil Chinoy, New York Times American higher education has a dropout problem. About one in three students who enroll in college never earn a degree. But a promising solution is staring us in the face: Schools with similar students often have very different graduation rates. This suggests that the problem isn't the students – it's the schools. Here we looked at 368 colleges arranged by what we would expect their graduation rates to be, based on the average for colleges with similar student bodies. Take Western Kentucky University and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At both, the expected six-year graduation rate is close to 60 percent. But the ... Read More
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Misreading the Story of Climate Change and the Maya
By Kenneth Seligson, California State University, Dominguez Hills (THE CONVERSATION) Carbon dioxide concentrations in Earth's atmosphere have reached 415 parts per million - a level that last occurred more than three million years ago, long before the evolution of humans. This news adds to growing concern that climate change will likely wreak serious damage on our planet in the coming decades. While Earth has not been this warm in human history, we can learn about coping with climate change by looking to the Classic Maya civilization that thrived between A.D. 250-950 in Eastern Mesoamerica, the region that is now Guatemala, Belize, Eastern Mexico, and parts of El Salvador and ... Read More
CSUDH to award Olympic gold medalist Carmelita Jeter with honorary degree
Cal State Dominguez Hills will award an Olympic gold medalist who graduated from the university with an honorary doctorate at a graduation ceremony next month. Carmelita Jeter, a 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 4×100-meter relay, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the university and the California State University board of trustees on May 17. She will receive the degree at the commencement ceremony for the College of Health, Human Services and Nursing, for which she will be the keynote speaker. Jeter is one of six Cal State Dominguez Hills alumni serving as keynote speakers to about 3,600 students receiving bachelor's and master's degrees. Jeter was part of the ... Read More
CSUDH Celebrates 9th Annual Pow Wow with Weekend-Long Festival
For its Ninth annual Pow Wow, the Cal State Dominguez Hills community held a two-day celebration highlighting Native American culture, with traditional songs, food, and performances Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21, in the campus' sculpture garden. The event combined traditions from numerous indigenous tribes across the country, including dances performed in colorful tribal regalia, as well as singing and drumming, and flute music. The event's Native American marketplace featured vendors selling arts and crafts, jewelry, clothes and other cultural products. Source: Daily Breeze ... Read More
This Cal State Created A Game To Keep Students In School (And It Pays Top Players $1,000)
Cal State Dominguez Hills signed on last fall to be the test site for Charge On, a program that uses students' online social gaming skills to guide them to academic, financial, and wellness help. Nearly a third of this campus' freshman class signed up for the program. Many of them had serious struggles during their first semester. "I thought there was nobody to go to or I was just basically alone," said freshman Evelyn Montes, a graduate of Fremont High School in South L.A. who is majoring in psychology, hoping to work as a student counselor. The difference between the academic expectations of high school and college was too much. "I felt too overwhelmed and I was, like, maybe this ... Read More
