Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chairman Mark Ridley-Thomas convened an economic development gathering within the 2nd District on September 22, at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Co-conveners were Dr. Willie Hagan, president CSUDH, Councilmember Curren Price, and Benny Tran, senior vice president of Development and Strategy, Los Angeles Football Club. Leading economic development officials, policy makers, practitioners, and business organizations met to discuss economic development priorities, address challenges, identify solutions, and encourage greater intra-regional collaboration amongst key-economic development stakeholders. “Furthering Economic Opportunity ... Read More
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CSU Dominguez Hills gifted $5.2M in grants to use for high school students
California State University Dominguez Hills has received four grants worth more than $5.2 million to provide 240 local high school students with the resources they need to excel in high school and graduate from college, school officials announced Monday. Each of the five-year U.S. Department of Education grants will support 60 students participating in CSUDH Upward Bound programs at five local schools: Carson High School, Gardena High School, Hawthorne High School, Leuzinger High School in Lawndale, and Thomas Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles. The grants will fund the programs from Sept. 1, 2017 to Aug. 31, 2022. “We are extremely excited about the opportunity to deepen our ... Read More
Spanish-Speaking Teachers Getting Special Training to Meet California’s Demand for more Bilingual Teachers
A first step for Los Angeles is training the teachers who will be working in the district's 16 new dual language programs starting this year, said Hilda Maldonado. With these new classes, the district's bilingual programs will grow to more than 100. Besides in-house training, the district also sent a dozen bilingual teachers to a two-week summer institute at CSU Dominguez Hills in June. And the district is partnering with a training program offered through UC Davis to help strengthen bilingual teachers' abilities to teach Common Core standards in math and English language arts in formal Spanish by helping them build their vocabularies and their abilities to communicate with students ... Read More
Excessive cellphone use may cause anxiety, experts warn
Spending too much time on your phone may be causing you to feel stress and anxiety, experts are warning. "The more people use their phone," Dr. Nancy Cheever, who spearheaded research on the relationship between cellphone use and anxiety at California State University, Dominguez Hills, told ABC News, "the more anxious they are about using their phone." Cheever's research suggests that phone-induced anxiety operates on a positive feedback loop, saying that phones keep us in a persistent state of anxiety and the only relief from this anxiety is to look at our phones. She warns that there is little known about the long-term effects that phone-induced anxiety can have on your overall ... Read More
Actor Nick Cannon kicks off African American Leaders of Tomorrow Conference at CSU Dominguez Hills
Actor and entertainer Nick Cannon was the keynote speaker Wednesday at a kickoff of the four-day African American Leaders of Tomorrow Conference held at CSU Dominguez Hills. Sixty African American high school students from throughout the state were selected to participate in the program that aims to cultivate the next generation of African Americans to become leaders in their communities, according to the CSU Dominguez Hills website. The students will receive leadership training and attend workshops on topics that include college experience, career development and civic engagement, according to the California Legislative Black Caucus website. Students are housed on the campus of CSU ... Read More