A grant from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been awarded to the California State University, Dominguez Hills College of Extended & International Education (CEE) to train nurses and other health professionals from the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. The scholars are awardees of the Scholarships for Education and Economic Development (SEED) program administered by the Center for Intercultural Education and Development at Georgetown University. Two SEED cohorts have been funded for one year to live and study at CSU Dominguez Hills for six months each. The first group will be at the university from ... Read More
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Jerry Moore: Anthropologist Establishes Consortium of Ecuadorean and Peruvian Scholars
Professor of anthropology Jerry Moore and Dr. Francisco Valdez of the Institut de Recherche Pour le Développpement (IRD) laid the groundwork for a bi-national collaboration between archaeologists in Ecuador and Peru this summer for long-term projects to explore the prehistory of the border regions between the two nations. The two-and-a-half week conference of international university students, archaeologists, and other scholars visited 15 ancient sites in Ecuador and Peru, viewed collections in national museums in both countries, and made public presentations to communities in La Libertad and Cuenca, Ecuador and in Tumbes and Piura, Peru. The project is funded by the Wenner Gren ... Read More
Thalia Gomez: ASI President Focuses on Student Services to Support Academic Excellence
Thalia Gomez says that when she began attending California State University, Dominguez Hills, she had no idea what a Ph.D. was. Today, as president of Associated Students, Inc., she is working to ensure that students have access to the guidance and support she has received during her education at CSU Dominguez Hills that has empowered her to become a scholar and leader. “I'm a first generation college student,” says the Chicana/o studies major. “My first language wasn't even English. I wanted to go to college but I didn't really know too much about anything else. I didn't have anybody to guide to me.” Gomez prepared for her first semester by participating in Summer Bridge, a ... Read More
Univision’s Feria Es El Momento, Edúcate Brings Thousands to CSU Dominguez Hills
Univision Los Angeles brought its education fair, “Feria Es El Momento, Edúcate” to California State University, Dominguez Hills for a second year on Oct. 9. The event featured exhibitors from all levels of elementary, secondary, and higher education, as well as representatives of Chivas USA, health care organizations and other supplementary educational programs. The event was sponsored by Univision KMEX 34, Telefutura 46, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, CommuniCard, and CSU Dominguez Hills. An estimated 27,000 visitors walked through the CSU Dominguez Hills Torodome during the five-hour event, which provided free information and resources for parents who inquired about ... Read More
History – and Ageless Storytelling – Repeat Themselves with Reinterpretation of “Macbeth”
For alumna Naomi Buckley (Class of '00, B.A., theatre arts), necessity has proven to be the mother of invention. The director of this month's production of “Macbeth” at California State University, Dominguez Hills says that the decision to set the play amid the contemporary drug cartels of Juarez, Mexico, was an economically driven one. “We have no money to set this in Scotland in 1040,” she notes. “Present time is always cheaper than setting it in a time period, so we tried to think of something in... the present day that was close to the sort of violence and dark themes that 'Macbeth' has.” Buckley drew inspiration for herself and her stage crew from stories on the Internet about the ... Read More
