“Thanks to Toyota and the Keck Foundation, we are now much more equipped to take engineering and mathematical concepts that are theoretical and physically put them in the hands of students to bring STEM to life,” said California State University Dominguez Hills President Willie J. Hagan, ahead of the debut of Four new mobile fabrication laboratories (fab labs) at the Carson campus on September 27. Toyota and the W.M. Keck Foundation partnered to create the fab labs, to help students enhance skills in science, technology, engineering and math. The labs, said program creators, will become part of a global network of about 900 labs that share common equipment and software. “The fab labs are ... Read More
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Furthering Economic Opportunity in Los Angeles’ 2nd District
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
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
