California State University, Dominguez Hills is listed among the top colleges and universities in the country according to a Time Magazine ranking that is based on criteria the White House plans to use to assess how well institutions serve students. Placing the highest importance on graduation rates, tuition and the percentage of students who receive federal Pell Grants, CSU Dominguez Hills ranked 29th among 100 schools that topped the Time Magazine list. Update: Due to Time adding more colleges to their data set, CSU Dominguez Hills is now 33rd on the list “When you focus on what's right, like affordable access and quality education, community service and student success it's not ... Read More
CSUDH In The News
VIDEO: Biologist Terry McGlynn Leads Study in Costa Rica On Bullet Ant Foraging Habits
Terry McGlynn, associate professor of biology, was in Costa Rica in January at the Organization for Tropical Studies' La Selva Biological Station as a visiting professor for its Introduction to Tropical Ecology, a four-week course in field for graduate students. During the month students, who came from universities through the U.S. and abroad, also learned how to use video to share their work. As part of the learning process they produced videos for an internal Student Film Festival. For National Geographic's Explorers Journal, a member of a two-man video production company who taught the students the basics of filming and editing wrote about the experience and the resulting videos the ... Read More
President Hagan to Meet with U.S. Secretary of Education
California State University President Willie J. Hagan has been selected to participate in a College Affordability Roundtable between U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and presidents and chancellors of universities and community colleges across the nation. The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) is hosting the private meeting on Oct. 25 during its annual conference taking place in Chicago. The 13 leaders meeting with Duncan are all HACU members and from federally designated Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). They will be meeting with Duncan to discuss President Barack Obama's higher education agenda and how to achieve the president's goal to make college more ... Read More
Sam Enriquez: Above the Fold at the Wall Street Journal
Sam Enriquez (Class of '85, B.S., economics) is featured as a CSU Dominguez Hills alumnus in the CSU Working for California campaign. His list of accomplishments are highlighted on the CSU website and as part of banner displays in the State Capitol Building. --- Just a month after his promotion to national news editor of the Wall Street Journal in 2008, Sam Enriquez found himself reaching back more than two decades to his courses in economics from California State University, Dominguez Hills. That fall, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., a global financial services firm and then the fourth-largest investment bank in the U.S., declared bankruptcy, ushering in a historic autumn of frozen credit ... Read More
Q & A: Hamoud Salhi on American Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Hamoud Salhi, associate professor of political science, specializes in international politics and comparative politics with an emphasis on the Middle East and Northern Africa, terrorism and counterterrorism, and political change in the Third World. He was in Algeria over winter break, during which time he joined a panel of experts to discuss American foreign policy and the Arab Spring. Dateline caught up with Salhi last week and asked him about this trip and his thoughts on events in the Middle East. Dateline: Why were you in Algeria and for how long were you there? Hamound Salhi: I was in Algeria for 10 days. I was invited to join in a panel on America foreign policy and ... Read More
